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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

Jason Stoneking and Celia Daley

Bespoke Books: An interview with Jason Stoneking

Jason Stoneking and Celia Galey

Independence Day by Richard Ford

Linda Lenhoff’s Top Ten Books

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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5 Poems by Colin Dodds

Colin Dodds

In Jay DeFeo ‘s Voice: Six Poems by Beth Spencer

Beth Spencer

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (2)

Empty Mirror

Big Sur - Kerouac

Prelude to Big Sur: Kerouac in Spring & Summer 1960

Paul Maher Jr.

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

rik lina - painting - surrealist - featured image

Rik Lina: 5 Paintings

Rik Lina

Nastja Säde Rönkkö, Take Me Anywhere, 2016 2 channel HD video, duration 10 min, video/edit Luke Turner

To Ride a Horse: The Art of Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Perceptions of Nature in an Age of Decline

Andrew J. Corsa

More Art

Essays

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Brooke Knisley

Art has side effects, I said - Bobbi Lurie - Marcel Duchamp

“Art has side effects,” I said.

Bobbi Lurie

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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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