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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

Is Southern Art a Thing?: Thoughts from a Technically Southern Arts Writer

Sara Estes

Jason Stoneking and Celia Daley

Bespoke Books: An interview with Jason Stoneking

Jason Stoneking and Celia Galey

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Farandole by Julie Sargent

Poems by Lucía Estrada, translated by Olivia Lott

Olivia Lott and Lucía Estrada

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Three poems by Jennifer Vaknine

Jennifer Vaknine

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Ghost Sonata - Vincent Zangrillo

The Ghost Sonata

Vincent Zangrillo

Elegy For My Beat Generation - poetry by Neeli Cherkovski

Neeli Cherkovski’s Elegy For My Beat Generation, reviewed by Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr. considers Kerouac’s Haunted Life

Paul Maher Jr.

The Creative Birth of Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s Creative Birth

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Confluence (detail) by Doug Gilbert

12 Paintings by Doug Gilbert

Doug Gilbert

Giinnie Gardiner - Aerial (detail)

The Enfolded: Collage Paintings by Ginnie Gardiner

Ginnie Gardiner

More Art

Essays

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Irishry

John O'Kane

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Surfacing the Toxins

Audrey Burges

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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