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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

Mr. Henry David Thoreau

I Am Nothing: Thoughts on Thoreau

Paul Maher Jr.

Artificial Paradises by Charles Baudelaire

Ten Favorite Books List Contributed by Josechu C.

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Merlin Flower - Rubbish (detail)

When there is nothing, there’s the cup of coffee

Merlin Flower

Glass Beach / credit: d.e

Four poems by Mark Terrill

Mark Terrill

More Poetry

Beat Generation

seymour krim

Beat Generation Writer Seymour Krim

Mark Cohen

Robert Creeley: Ted Joans, Primary Poet

Robert Creeley

Ruth Weiss / copyright Horst Spandler

In honor of ruth weiss on her 85th birthday

Horst Spandler

ruth and Hal Davis on their porch. Photo by Horst Spandler, 2013.

Celebrating ruth weiss on her 90th birthday

Horst Spandler

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Rik Lina - Dragon Mountain

7 Paintings by Rik Lina

Rik Lina

circular reference (detail) - mixed media collage by Kelly Schaub

Nine Mixed Media Collages by Kelly Schaub

Kelly Schaub

More Art

Essays

My Father's Map - Jan Glazewski

My Father’s Map

Jan Glazewski

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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