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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

Was Roosevelt Reciting Poetry?

Was Roosevelt Reciting Poetry?: The Need for a New Prosody

Dustin Junkert

Scattered Clouds: New and Selected Poems by Reuben Jackson

Clara B. Jones interviews poet Reuben Jackson

Clara B. Jones

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

peninsula / credit: em

2 poems by Emily Tuttle

Emily Tuttle

trayvon martin occupy march 21

When a Black Boy Walks Home Alone At Night

A.D. Winans

More Poetry

Beat Generation

David Amram / Ted Joans

David Amram: To Laura for Ted Joans

David Amram

Jack Kerouac’s “Strange Cemetery in Jamaica”

Paul Maher Jr.

Bowles & I

Vast Regions from Nowhere: Paul Bowles, Unfathered Authors, Mother-Bonded Sons

Jasun Horsley

from the video "Gregory Corso Walks & Talks in Rome, " Dario Bellini / YouTube

4 terrific Gregory Corso videos

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Yoko Ono - Invisible Flower

Review – An Invisible Flower by Yoko Ono

Denise Enck

Deaf, by Weldon Sandusky (detail)

4 Paintings by Weldon Sandusky

Weldon Sandusky

More Art

Essays

Denise Enck

Marshmallow Forest

Melissa Wiley

All Night You Dream of Ice and In the Morning Wake to a Skiff of Snow

Maya Jewell Zeller

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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