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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

Tin House 2014 notebook

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

Randy Osborne

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

eleven / image: em

Three Dream Poems by Z.G. Tomaszewski

Z.G. Tomaszewski

the Douglas Fir at 850 years

Two poems by Carson Faust

Carson Faust

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Book Review — Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Allen Ginsberg - HOWL

The Howl Hat

Jason Stoneking

Bowles & I

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

Jasun Horsley

Larry Keenan, Photographer

About photographer Larry Keenan

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Konstruktion B (detail) - Kon Markogiannis collage

Four collages by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

Spring Garden MFL, (detail) 06.04.2017

Urban Geologies

Orchid Tierney

More Art

Essays

Only Man in the World - Kirby Wright

The Only Man in the World

Kirby Wright

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

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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