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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

(detail) Bottle, Carafe, Jug and Lemons

Lemon Calls to Lemon: The Visual Poetics of D. H. Lawrence, Jack Spicer, and Robert Kroetsch

Ty Clever

Alex Preston Books

David Handley’s interview with Author Alex Preston

David Handley

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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ghost town – six poems by Chris Turnbull

Chris Turnbull

Allen Ginsberg by Larry Keenan. Robert Lowell by Elsa Dorfman. Both copyright by their respective creators

Ginsberg and Lowell

Jim Bennett

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Sea is My Brother - Jack Kerouac

The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac, Reviewed by Jack Leaf Willetts

Jade Leaf Willetts

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (2)

Empty Mirror

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

A.D. Winans Remembers Jack Micheline

A.D. Winans

T. Paul Ste.. Marie and Ted Joans

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

T. Paul Ste. Marie

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Billie 3(detail) - Steve Dalachinsky collage

Two collages and a poem by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

Dietrich's Mirror 7 (detail) - Kalliope Amorphous

Dietrich’s Mirror: Portraits In The Mirrors Of Marlene Dietrich

Kalliope Amorphous

More Art

Essays

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Surfacing the Toxins

Audrey Burges

animals, seven days old

Animals, Seven Days Old

Lake Vargas

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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