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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

Srinivas Reddy

Sitar and Sanskrit: Bill Wolak Interviews Srinivas Reddy

Bill Wolak and Srinivas Reddy

franz marc writings - jean marie carey

Between Something and Nothing: Franz Marc’s Authorial Ether

Jean Marie Carey

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

arbor trail / credit: em

The End of the World Through a Fish Bowl

Sam Silva

ten mile / credit: d.e.

Three poems by Linda E. Chown

Linda E. Chown

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Carl Solomon - Mishaps, Perhaps

Two Songs for Samson: An Invective Poem for Carl Solomon

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

Photo by Robert Wilson. Used by permission.

Notes on Three Lost Poems by Gregory Corso

Gregory Stephenson

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . . . reissued.

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac is reissued

Paul Maher Jr.

JK - Jack Kerouac typewriter

October Ghost

Ashley Shelby

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Parts of Speech (detail) by Hoop & Stick

A One-Sided Knife Fight: Collages by Hoop & Stick

Hoop & Stick

boat 1 (detail) cr resetarits

Eight pieces by C.R. Resetarits

C. R. Resetarits

More Art

Essays

Plain Sight by Matt Dube

Plain Sight

Matt Dube

Panic Drapes the Look of the World: Literary Treatment for Anxiety in an Uncertain Age

Emily Sinclair

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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