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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

A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas reads “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”

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4 week-old neurons

Raskolnikov and the Peanut: Mirror Neurons & the Arcane Art of Writing – Jasun Horsley

Jasun Horsley

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Poetry

Poems by Marcia Arrieta

Marcia Arrieta

Photo credit: Joybot / CC BY-SA

Ginsberg at the Grey

Merridawn Duckler

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Max Douglas poetry

Max Douglas, Poet

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Memory Babes: The Legends of Proust and Kerouac Mersiha Bruncevic

Memory Babes: The Legends of Proust and Kerouac

Mersiha Bruncevic

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Kerouac and the Outsider – A Puzzle

Dave Moore

How Kerouac's haikus saved my life

How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

Bridget McNulty

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

The Demiurge (detail) by Joanna Marcjanna

Tales from the future: collages by Joanna Marcjanna

Joanna Marcjanna

constellations collage (detail) by Tim Stuemke

Constellations: Collages by Tim Stuemke

Tim Stuemke

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Essays

Sait Faik Abasiyanik

Sait Faik Abasiyanik: The Man Who Faithfully Embraces the World

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

photo credit: Digital Third Eye

From Motown to Mowtown

Andrew Lees

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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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