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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

journal

Attempt to Hear All the Voices: On the Nature of Essay

Shannon Berg

Sarah Trembath interview

It Was The Scarlet That Did It: An Interview with Sarah Trembath

Hannah Grieco and Sarah Trembath

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

beach maple / credit: em

Things Happen and three other poems by Sam Silva

Sam Silva

semi-box / image credit: em

Two poems by john sweet

john sweet

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Wordworth & Kerouac

Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence

William R. Soldan

Big Sur - Jack Kerouac

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Allen Ginsberg photo by Larry Keenan / Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg: A Story of Influences

Alexandre Ferrere

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Behind the Scene 6 by hiromi suzuki

Behind the Scene: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Nanette Jordan collage art

Portrait Collages by Nanette Jordan

Nanette Jordan

More Art

Essays

photo by Yuxiang Zhang

Spot the Differences

Taylor Byas

Body Bereft of Fitton Farm - Justine Fitton

Body Bereft of Fitton Farm

Justine Fitton

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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