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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

Kristin Garth The Meadow poetry

Kristin Garth on her new collection, The Meadow — an interview by Amy Suzanne

Kristin Garth and Amy Suzanne

The Invitation of the Mirror: Jonathan Lethem & Me, from the Margin to the Mainstream

Jasun Horsley

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Sylvia A. Perkins, Hoquiam

The 1899 Commissioner of the General Land Office meets Sylvia A. Perkins, lover of Floral Poetry

Denise Enck

poem by Sam Silva

Pagan Days

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Jerry Kamstra Weed, reviewed

On the Dangerous Edge of Things: Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler by Jerry Kamstra, reviewed by Gregory Stephenson

Gregory Stephenson

Jack Kerouac - Library of America

An interview on Jack Kerouac and Library of America

Paul Maher Jr.

JK - Jack Kerouac typewriter

October Ghost

Ashley Shelby

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

A.D. Winans Remembers Jack Micheline

A.D. Winans

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Pussy Riot (detail) - Chris Gaveler

the right of the people peaceably to assemble: an image-text sequence by Chris Gavaler

Chris Gavaler

Self Portrait )detail) - Tom Melsen

Eight paintings by Tom Melsen

Tom Melsen

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Essays

photo credit: Digital Third Eye

From Motown to Mowtown

Andrew Lees

The moon over Aaqrabâte, Syria / photo by Samer Daboul

Chasing the Moon

Sarah Zanabli

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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