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Empty Mirror is built on the WordPress platform, using the powerful and versatile Genesis theme framework.

The site’s theme, Chuckanut, is a customized theme by Denise Enck, created specially for Empty Mirror.

Empty Mirror uses four fonts, all available at Google Fonts.

  • EM’s site title is in Ultra, designed by Astigmatic.
  • The headlines are in the Trocchi font which was created by the late typographer Vernon Adams and named for the Scottish novelist, Alexander Trocchi.
  • The text font is Roboto, created by Christian Robertson.
  • Steve Matteson’s Cousine is a monospace font, perfect to preserve formatting in some poems.

Empty Mirror is a Buddhist concept and also the title of Allen Ginsberg’s 1961 collection (read or download) of early poems. Empty Mirror takes its name from the book.

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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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