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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

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass silence

“Only the Lull I Like”: Walt Whitman’s Image of Silence

Andrew Field

Panic In The Rear-View Mirror: Exploring The Work of Richard Siken and Ann Gale

Rhienna Renee Guedry

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Opium Tales at the End - Sam Silva poetry

Opium Tales at the End and two more poems by Sam Silva

Sam Silva

Berthusen -- D. Enck

With All The Love I Know How: 6 poems by Wojciech

Casimir Wojciech

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac by Joerg Haeske

Review – Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac, by Joerg Haeske

Denise Enck

Kirby Doyle poet

Remembering Poet Kirby Doyle

Michael McClure

Gloria Avner and David Gitin

Remembering poet David Gitin

Sam Vinicur

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

The Yellow Line (detail) - Fabio Sassi

The Yellow Line

Fabio Sassi

Kathmandu (detail) by Carlyle Baker

Collages by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

More Art

Essays

Las Meninas (detail) by Diego Vasquez

Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994

Sara Schaff

Great Northern Railway logo / Joe Mabel

How to Die Like You Meant It

Jeff Beddow

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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