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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

The Glass Slipper: Deconstructing Cinderella's Magical Accessory

The Glass Slipper: Deconstructing Cinderella’s Magical Accessory

Robert Boucheron

Is That You Simon? Akbar Del Piombo

Mutinous Jester: The Collage Novels of Akbar Del Piombo

Gregory Stephenson

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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6 poems by Bradford Middleton

Bradford Middleton

Farmers, Queens, Trains and Clowns

g emil reutter

More Poetry

Beat Generation

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Kerouac and the Outsider – A Puzzle

Dave Moore

Marlie Centawer - a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

photo by Bruno Cervera / Unsplash

Blowing: Poetry Meets Music in the Writing of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

How Kerouac's haikus saved my life

How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

Bridget McNulty

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Vacancy - JC Olsthoorn

Land O’ Lakes: Highway 7 photographs

JC Olsthoorn

Ripple by Havel-Ruck Projects

A Carving Process: Ripple by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck

Matt Diage

More Art

Essays

Seizure - essay by Stephanie Andersen

Seizure

Stephanie Andersen

Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan

On Waiting

Yasmine Shamma

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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