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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

Zlatko Anguelov

Love in the no-land space between two cultures: an interview with Zlatko Anguelov

Jasmina Tacheva

Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Collage

Henry and Me

Steve Wheeler

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

the corner of columbia and pacific -- D. Enck

Poetry by Carl Boon

Carl Boon

Joseph Severn - Percy Bysshe Shelley

For Shelley on the 4th August, His Birthday – Heathcote Williams

Heathcote Williams

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (11)

Empty Mirror

T. Paul Ste.. Marie and Ted Joans

Ted Joans Lives! Words by T. Paul Ste. Marie

T. Paul Ste. Marie

The Creative Birth of Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s Creative Birth

Paul Maher Jr.

alan ansen 1973

In Memory of Poet Alan Ansen: Biography, Books & Links

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

All the Light That Never Returns (detail) - Bill Wolak

12 Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

Hildy Maze (detail)

No Inherent Existence: mixed-media pieces by Hildy Maze

Hildy Maze

More Art

Essays

Great Northern Railway logo / Joe Mabel

How to Die Like You Meant It

Jeff Beddow

Bellingham, WA sunset -- Boulevard Park

Spring in Cascadia

David Marshall

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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