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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

Panic In The Rear-View Mirror: Exploring The Work of Richard Siken and Ann Gale

Rhienna Renee Guedry

Tin House 2014 notebook

Fully Aboard the Flesh Wagon: Tin House Writers Workshop, Summer 2014

Randy Osborne

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

steering wheel

Two poems by Amy Soricelli

Amy Soricelli

Old Mill Beach / credit: D. Enck

Five poems by Laura McPhee-Browne

Laura McPhee-Browne

More Poetry

Beat Generation

And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead: a review of the Bob Kaufman documentary

Jared Feldschreiber

ted joans photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Rik Lina, Hammond Guthrie, Richard Krech and more

Rik Lina

Before and After Desolation: Two Sojourns by Jack Kerouac at Seattle's Hotel Stevens

Before and After Desolation: Two Sojourns by Jack Kerouac at the Hotel Stevens

Gregory Stephenson

Gotham Book Mart - Evan P. Cordes

Being Michael Brownstein – Thomas Locicero

Thomas Locicero

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Ryoji Ikeda’s Continuum - photo copyright Leland Buck

Swimming in the river of bits: The digital meditation of Ryoji Ikeda’s Continuum

Leland Buck

visual poem (detail) by József Bíró

3 visual poems by József Bíró

József Bíró

More Art

Essays

lake padden

Something About Rage and the Light Dying

Jason Hardung

On Crooked Legs of Hackberry

With Crooked Legs of Hackberry

Gregory Ormson

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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