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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

Bruno Sourdin interview with Gary Cummiskey

Anything Can Happen: Bruno Sourdin in conversation with Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey

The Glass Slipper: Deconstructing Cinderella's Magical Accessory

The Glass Slipper: Deconstructing Cinderella’s Magical Accessory

Robert Boucheron

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Gloria Avner poems

5 Poems by Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner

A.D. Winans poetry

A Call to Poets

A.D. Winans

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans rhinostopper art

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (6)

Empty Mirror

Beatitude 50th Anniversary - Latif Harris

Book Review — Beatitude Golden Anniversary: 1959-2009

Denise Enck

The Beatific Soul: A film about John J Dorfner

The Beatific Soul: A film featuring Kerouac biographer John J. Dorfner

John J. Dorfner

Robert Creeley: Ted Joans, Primary Poet

Robert Creeley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

- David Hickman collage

10 Digital Collages by David Hickman

David Hickman

Fierce Sonia

7 mixed-media works by Fierce Sonia

Fierce Sonia

More Art

Essays

photo by Yuxiang Zhang

Spot the Differences

Taylor Byas

Photo credit: www.flickr.com/photos/zeroy/5673872877/ Roy Ubu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ CC-NC-ND

Irishry

John O'Kane

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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