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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

Stephanie Dickinson and Rosalind Palermo Stevenson conversation

Writing Through Icons: Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson on Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg

Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson

V - Pynchon

Top Ten Books List Contributed by John W.

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

semiahmoo tree

Two poems by Alina Stefanescu

Alina Stefanescu

Whatcom Falls Park, March 23 2015

A Stranger’s Education in the Arts: Poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

rob lee poets photos

Beat Generation Photos by Rob Lee

Rob Lee

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

William S. Burroughs and Cats

The Guardian and the Familiar: William S. Burroughs and Cats

Lee Watkins

Big Sur - Jack Kerouac

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Strength (detail) - Emma Anna

The Tarot of the Golden Scissors: collages by Emma Anna

Emma Anna

actual size collage (detail) - Steve Dalachinsky

Five poems and four collages by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

More Art

Essays

The Millstones of History

The Mill Stones of History

Lazar Trubman

the skagit trail / credit: em

Convergence

Etan Nechin

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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