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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

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass silence

“Only the Lull I Like”: Walt Whitman’s Image of Silence

Andrew Field

An Interview with Poet Jack Leaf Willetts

Denise Enck

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

On the Road at Moses Coulee / credit: denise enck

Anaphora: Four Approximations

Casimir Wojciech

fragrance / credit: em

Two poems by German Dario

German Dario

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac by Joerg Haeske

Review – Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac, by Joerg Haeske

Denise Enck

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (12)

Empty Mirror

Ted Joans WOW sun logo

Ted Joans Lives! Coreley Coit, Kenya Rodriguez, Valery Oisteanu, Hidani Ditmars

Empty Mirror

Far-Flung Fragments of Forgotten Kerouaciana

A Few Far-Flung Fragments of Forgotten Kerouaciana

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Caving with Malcom (detail) - Rodica Miller

The Mists of Youth: Oil Paintings

Rodica Miller

Pussy Riot (detail) - Chris Gaveler

the right of the people peaceably to assemble: an image-text sequence by Chris Gavaler

Chris Gavaler

More Art

Essays

d nolan jefferson

They Saved Me from Myself by D. Nolan Jefferson

D. Nolan Jefferson

This High

Ben Shaberman

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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