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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

Slow Dance Bullets by Meaghan Quinn

A conversation with poet Meaghan Quinn

Lauren Davis and Meaghan Quinn

Lord of the Rings

Eric D. Lehman’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Juan Arabia: 5 poems translated by Katherine M. Hedeen

Katherine M. Hedeen and Juan Arabia

Helle Busacca

Translations of three poems by Helle Busacca

Margaret Spiegelman

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . . . reissued.

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac is reissued

Paul Maher Jr.

Old Angel Midnight

Earwitness Testimony: Sound and Sense, Word and Void in Jack Kerouac’s Old Angel Midnight

Gregory Stephenson

Some Kind of Dharma 1 (detail) - Steve Paul

Some Kind of Dharma: Photographs

Steve Paul

Mary Norbert Korte

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

The Palette Series #3 (detail), Mariia Magoly

The Palette Series: Collages by Mariia Magoly

Mariia Magoly

You were made for me(detail) - Oscar Varona

Collages by Oscar Varona

Oscar Varona

More Art

Essays

Cowboy

El Condor Pasa

Sarah Glady

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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