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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

Alex Preston Books

David Handley’s interview with Author Alex Preston

David Handley

Tin House 2014 notebook

Fully Aboard the Flesh Wagon: Tin House Writers Workshop, Summer 2014

Randy Osborne

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

no. 9 / d.enck

Three poems by John T. Trigonis

John T. Trigonis

Keeping the Darkness Out

Kirby Wright

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Robert Creeley: Ted Joans, Primary Poet

Robert Creeley

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (13)

Empty Mirror

Memory Babes: The Legends of Proust and Kerouac Mersiha Bruncevic

Memory Babes: The Legends of Proust and Kerouac

Mersiha Bruncevic

William Burroughs, portrait by Graziano Origa, pen & ink, 1997

Junk Nightmares

Lee Watkins

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

EC Brown Anomalies Shop Detail 6

Standing room only: Inside the workshop of E.C. Brown Anomalies

Ephraim C. Brown

Paintings by Abstract Painter Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

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Essays

credit: Orlova Maria

Food Service, by Caitlin Sellnow

Caitlin Sellnow

Home (detail). Photo by Tara Shepersky.

Love Song for a River Bank

Tara K. Shepersky

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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