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Empty Mirror 25th Anniversary

Empty Mirror celebrated its 25th anniversary on May 31, 2025! While we are currently on hiatus, we invite you to enjoy a quarter century of writing and art in our archives.

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On Literature

Kristin Garth The Meadow poetry

Kristin Garth on her new collection, The Meadow — an interview by Amy Suzanne

Kristin Garth and Amy Suzanne

Endgame collage - Denise Enck

Endgame (May you live in interesting times – Chinese Curse)

Bobbi Lurie

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

pieces of the story / credit: de

At the Carnival of Drunken Poets

Alfred K. LaMotte

What the Lower Mind Discerns

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac’s “Strange Cemetery in Jamaica”

Paul Maher Jr.

Kirby Doyle poet

Remembering Poet Kirby Doyle

Michael McClure

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac, reviewed by Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman

Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac by Joerg Haeske

Review – Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac, by Joerg Haeske

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Ahh You Ahh Freedom Bliss (detail) - Michelle Firment Reid

Thought Notes From My Open Side: Mixed-Media Work by Michelle Firment Reid

Michelle Firment Reid

Regenerate (detail) painting by Amy Guidry

In Our Veins: Paintings by Amy Guidry

Amy Guidry

More Art

Essays

Icarus / credit: de

Icarus Regrets Every Tired Muscle

Wm. Anthony Connolly

Denise Enck

Marshmallow Forest

Melissa Wiley

More Essays

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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