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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

franz marc writings - jean marie carey

Between Something and Nothing: Franz Marc’s Authorial Ether

Jean Marie Carey

The Glass Slipper: Deconstructing Cinderella's Magical Accessory

The Glass Slipper: Deconstructing Cinderella’s Magical Accessory

Robert Boucheron

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Berthusen -- D. Enck

Three new poems by Mark Young

Mark Young

…the clouds looked like they were bought at Target or Walmart and then someone hung them up in the sky

Calvero

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac: On the Binge by Kenton Crowther

Book Review – Kenton Crowther’s Kerouac on the Binge

Denise Enck

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac, reviewed by Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman

Some Kind of Dharma 1 (detail) - Steve Paul

Some Kind of Dharma: Photographs

Steve Paul

Larry Keenan, Photographer

About photographer Larry Keenan

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Ms. (detail) - Cassandra Keenan

Seven Portraits of Women

Cassandra Keenan

EMMET GOWIN Edith, Chinoteague, Virginia, 1967 (detail)

Modern photographer Emmet Gowin

Leah Kelly

More Art

Essays

photo by Daniel Tseng / unsplash

Intimacy with Doors

Bára Hladík

Photo credit: www.flickr.com/photos/zeroy/5673872877/ Roy Ubu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ CC-NC-ND

Irishry

John O'Kane

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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