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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

Writers on Writers on Writers I: Linda Chown on E.L. Doctorow on Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

Linda E. Chown

Endgame collage - Denise Enck

Endgame (May you live in interesting times – Chinese Curse)

Bobbi Lurie

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Street Flowers by Alexis Doyen

A Song Which the Artist Inspires: Poems

Sam Silva

no. 9 / d.enck

Three poems by John T. Trigonis

John T. Trigonis

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Philip Whalen

Denise Enck

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

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (10)

Empty Mirror

Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Unexpected As the Twist of a Kiss (detail) - collage by Bill Wolak

12 collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

Agnes Denes Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule (detail)- 11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years (Triptych) 1992-1996, 1992/2013 Type-C print 36 x 36 inches Copyright Agnes Denes, courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Minimizing Monetization Earth: Agnes Denes’ Art

John K Grande

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Essays

credit: Orlova Maria

Food Service, by Caitlin Sellnow

Caitlin Sellnow

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

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

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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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