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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

Alex Preston Books

David Handley’s interview with Author Alex Preston

David Handley

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue - Emmanuelle Pagano

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano: Nataliya Deleva interviews translators Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

Nataliya Deleva, Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Le Khmer Bleu (detail) by J. H. Martin

Dew Drops: Four Poems

J. H. Martin

Padden mist / credit: em

Two poems by Faizan Syed

Faizan Syed

More Poetry

Beat Generation

How Hip Was My Alley by Kenton Crowther

Review – Alleycats and Beatsters: The Hip, the Gone, and the Way Gone

Denise Enck

Gotham Book Mart - Evan P. Cordes

Being Michael Brownstein – Thomas Locicero

Thomas Locicero

In honor of Jack’s birthday: 4 Kerouac videos

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David Amram, Ed Heflin & Joe Kerouac. © Ed Heflin, 2003

An Interview with David Amram: By Your Works Ye Shall Be Known

Ed Heflin

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

9 collages by Magda Dudziak

Magda Dudziak

geranium 2

All-art issue: in memory of Eileen Enck

Denise Enck

More Art

Essays

peaches

Under His Roof

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

animals, seven days old

Animals, Seven Days Old

Lake Vargas

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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