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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

steppenwolf

Gary A.’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

Kristin Garth The Meadow poetry

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

Kristin Garth and Amy Suzanne

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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On Leaving Peru: 5 poems by Todd Clouser

Todd Clouser

Gyr Rêve/ credit: D. Enck

Poems by Michael S. Begnal

Michael S. Begnal

More Poetry

Beat Generation

ginsberg-orlovsky-stephenson

Passing Through: Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky in Copenhagen, January 1983

Gregory Stephenson

Kerouac notebooks

Are There Any Good Unpublished Kerouac Books Left?

Paul Maher Jr.

The Rebirth of the Author in On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Rebirth of the Author in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Eric V. Patterson

The Road to Visions of Cody

The Road Toward Visions of Cody

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

No Way Out (detail) by Nathalie Tierce

Memory of Place: 8 paintings by Nathalie Tierce

Nathalie Tierce

Ripple by Havel-Ruck Projects

A Carving Process: Ripple by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck

Matt Diage

More Art

Essays

Are Made Of - essay by Tomoé Hill

Are Made Of

Tomoé Hill

Threshold_2 (detail) Tara K Shepersky

Conversations at Thresholds: a Contemplative Offering

Tara K. Shepersky

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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