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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

Courtney Zoffness interview - Brian DiNuzzo

Talking writing with award-winning author Courtney Zoffness

Courtney Zoffness and Brian DiNuzzo

Virginia Woolf & Edith Wharton -- Linda Chown Essay

Writers on Writers on Writers II: John Colopinto, “Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and A Case of Anxiety of Influence”

Linda E. Chown

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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Four poems by Katherine Fallon

Katherine Fallon

steve dalachinsky poem

the leaves are changing

Steve Dalachinsky

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Sea is My Brother - Jack Kerouac

The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac, Reviewed by Jack Leaf Willetts

Jade Leaf Willetts

grass

The Great Consciousness of Life

Paul Maher Jr.

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Konstruktion B (detail) - Kon Markogiannis collage

Four collages by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

Dana Stirling - Taxidermy 2 (detail)

Taxidermy

Dana Stirling

More Art

Essays

lake padden

Something About Rage and the Light Dying

Jason Hardung

drawing of man with guitar

Being There – Michelle Bracken

Michelle Bracken

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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