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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

Five Past Noon: Reading Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America

Five Past Noon: Reading Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America

Michael Huguenor

Rosamund Lehmann

Aching for Meaning: The Work of Novelist Rosamond Lehmann

Kathryn Hummel

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Gloria Avner poems

5 Poems by Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner

skagit & cedar / credit: em

Two poems by Cali Kopczick

Cali Kopczick

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

Gregory Corso mug shot -- prison

Poetic Licence: The Crime and Hard Time of Gregory Corso, or A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Felon

Gregory Stephenson

ruth and Hal Davis on their porch. Photo by Horst Spandler, 2013.

Celebrating ruth weiss on her 90th birthday

Horst Spandler

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (11)

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

constellations collage (detail) by Tim Stuemke

Constellations: Collages by Tim Stuemke

Tim Stuemke

Michelle Dunaway

Art and the Artist: An Interview with Michelle Dunaway

Merlin Flower

More Art

Essays

Scylla - Buku Sarkar essay

Scylla

Buku Sarkar

skyview / credit: em

When Fear Sets In

Marina Flores

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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