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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

Empty Mirror - 20 years

On Empty Mirror’s First Twenty Years

Denise Enck

A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas reads “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”

Empty Mirror

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Skagit Farm by Denise Enck

In a Time Under Morning’s Spell: Poems

Sam Silva

cali / credit: em

Two poems by Amee Nassrene Broumand

Amee Nassrene Broumand

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Juan Arabia - Jack Kerouac

Beatnik / Kerouac and Rock ‘n Roll: Two essays by Juan Arabia

Juan Arabia

Kerouac: Avatar for American Buddhism by Michael Amundsen

Jack Kerouac: Avatar of American Buddhism

Michael Amundsen

ginsberg-orlovsky-stephenson

Passing Through: Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky in Copenhagen, January 1983

Gregory Stephenson

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

A.D. Winans Remembers Jack Micheline

A.D. Winans

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Dervish (detail) by Alec Clayton

7 Abstract Paintings by Alec Clayton

Alec Clayton

Divine Decay 14 (detail) by Kon Markogiannis

Divine Decay by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

More Art

Essays

Mystery Forest - Denise Enck

The Poetry of Walking

Wendy Gist

White Jesus -- Todd Clouser

White Jesus – A reflection on summer camp and Charlottesville

Todd Clouser

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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