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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

Marcel Duchamp by Man Ray

Concealing The Light From The Lit

Bobbi Lurie

Slow Dance Bullets by Meaghan Quinn

A conversation with poet Meaghan Quinn

Lauren Davis and Meaghan Quinn

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

way / credit: em

Three poems by Matt Mitchell

Matt Mitchell

dream creek / credit: de

Three poems by Heather Derr-Smith

Heather Derr-Smith

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac - The Sea is My Brother

Addendum to “Lost Letter Found”

Paul Maher Jr.

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

A.D. Winans Remembers Jack Micheline

A.D. Winans

Jack Kerouac Rocky Mount Hall of Fame Potrtrait - inducted by John J. Dorfner

John J. Dorfner on Jack Kerouac’s Induction into the Rocky Mount Hall of Fame

John J. Dorfner

ginsberg-orlovsky-stephenson

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

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Entry to the zone - Gary Cummiskey collage

12 new collages by Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey

Figs.03: Franz Marc, Caliban, 1914. (Figure for Shakespeare’s „Der Sturm“. Tempera, 46 x 39.5 cm.) Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett der öffentlichen Kunstsammlung, Switzerland.

The Tempest and the Savages: Franz Marc, Hugo Ball, and a Decisive Moment in Dada-Expressionist Theater With a Special Appearance by August Macke

Jean Marie Carey

More Art

Essays

after the rains / credit: em

Flash Flood and Visitation

Brandon Noel

The Millstones of History

The Mill Stones of History

Lazar Trubman

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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