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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

Poet A.D. Winans’ Top Ten Books List

Top Ten List Contributor

Five Past Noon: Reading Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America

Five Past Noon: Reading Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America

Michael Huguenor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

crabpots

Two poems by Alex Gallo-Brown

Alex Gallo Brown

by the river / credit: de

Four cow poems by Orchid Tierney

Orchid Tierney

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Philip Whalen

Denise Enck

Jerry Kamstra Weed, reviewed

On the Dangerous Edge of Things: Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler by Jerry Kamstra, reviewed by Gregory Stephenson

Gregory Stephenson

Jack Kerouac by Allen Ginsberg

Charged Vision: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

Corey Wade

William S. Burroughs collage (detail) by Stephen James

Out to Lunch with William Burroughs: Who Owns the Dropper Owns the Fix

Leon Horton

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Chris Turnbull - maybe (detail)

Vispo by Chris Turnbull

Chris Turnbull

Veiny Cathedral Transaction (detail) - visual poetry by James Knight

Monster: visual poems by James Knight

James Knight

More Art

Essays

credit: Orlova Maria

Food Service, by Caitlin Sellnow

Caitlin Sellnow

up the afternoon / credit: de

Person to Person

Erica Soon Olsen

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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