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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

“Write What My Spirit Demands”: An Interview with Devorah Major on Writing in Multiple Genres

Rochelle Spencer and Devorah Major

Harold's, San Pedro; image copyright Marshall Astor, Food Fetishist, http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifeontheedge/125389576/ / CC BY CA

Joints

John O'Kane

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

skagit river

For David Moe

A.D. Winans

credit: em

Poems from Matt Hill’s Pellucid Inferno

Matt Hill

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Road to Visions of Cody

The Road Toward Visions of Cody

Paul Maher Jr.

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . . . reissued.

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac is reissued

Paul Maher Jr.

ted joans photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Keith Scotcher and Larry Keenan

Empty Mirror

kerouac on the road scroll fragment

Cut-Up (The Stolen Scroll)

Bill Ectric

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

toriot 14 (detail - paul hawkins

toriot: text art by paul hawkins

Paul Hawkins

Fighting Chance (detail) - LIta Kenyon

All These Sensations: 11 artworks by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

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Essays

eyes on 8 by Emilie Kneifel

eyes on / horizon by Emilie Kneifel

Emilie Kneifel

six / image credit: em

Eight Hours

Marina Petrova

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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