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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

Oscar Wilde reclining

The Beauty in Hatred: Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Theory in De Profundis

Stacey Mankoff

Kristin Garth The Meadow poetry

Kristin Garth on her new collection, The Meadow — an interview by Amy Suzanne

Kristin Garth and Amy Suzanne

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Addisonia / 1902

Three poems by Elizabeth Threadgill

Elizabeth Threadgill

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Three poems by Taylor Byas

Taylor Byas

More Poetry

Beat Generation

On the Road movie poster

The Official Kerouac “On the Road” Movie Trailer is Here!

Denise Enck

Jack Kerouac Rocky Mount Hall of Fame Potrtrait - inducted by John J. Dorfner

John J. Dorfner on Jack Kerouac’s Induction into the Rocky Mount Hall of Fame

John J. Dorfner

grass

The Great Consciousness of Life

Paul Maher Jr.

Seymour Wyse, Horace Mann School, 1940, courtesy of Dave Moore

Kerouac — “My really best friend…” an interview with Seymour Wyse by Dave Moore

Dave Moore

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

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

Sara Estes

Mark Rothko, Untitled (detail)

Rothko’s Passage Through Fear and Trembling During the Seagram Murals

George Saitoh

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Essays

Dearly Beloved - Nanette Jordan

Dearly Beloved, Part I: Growing up in 1950s San Francisco

Nanette Jordan

Sait Faik Abasiyanik

Sait Faik Abasiyanik: The Man Who Faithfully Embraces the World

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

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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