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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

Is Southern Art a Thing?: Thoughts from a Technically Southern Arts Writer

Sara Estes

Artificial Paradises by Charles Baudelaire

Ten Favorite Books List Contributed by Josechu C.

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

yes86 by d.enck

Oral History of a Touch-Starved Maniac: 2 poems by Sage

Sage

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

I Am San Francisco

A.D. Winans

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac Gide featured image

Kerouac and An American Marriage

Paul Maher Jr.

Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac by Joerg Haeske

Review – Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac, by Joerg Haeske

Denise Enck

Gregory Corso - Mindfield

About Gregory Corso

Empty Mirror

How Hip Was My Alley by Kenton Crowther

Review – Alleycats and Beatsters: The Hip, the Gone, and the Way Gone

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Collage by Gloria Avner

Seven Artworks by Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner

Room of a Writer - Elza Zijlstra

TrashWorks: Collages from beachtrash and vintage magazines

Elza Zijlstra

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part V) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

on painting on

On Painting On

Nanette Jordan

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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