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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

Remembering and Jane Austen - Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Remembering and Jane

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Sara Coleridge

My Coleridge: On Five Poems by Sara Coleridge

Stephanie Limb

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

the path

Poems by Heidi Williamson

Heidi Williamson

poems by Conley Lowrance

Poems by Conley Lowrance

Conley Lowrance

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives

Ted Joans Lives! Michael Hayward, Jake Lamar, Bernie Mindich, and Guy Pierre Buchholtzer

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Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

Jack Kerouac Rocky Mount Hall of Fame Potrtrait - inducted by John J. Dorfner

John J. Dorfner on Jack Kerouac’s Induction into the Rocky Mount Hall of Fame

John J. Dorfner

Memory Babes: The Legends of Proust and Kerouac Mersiha Bruncevic

Memory Babes: The Legends of Proust and Kerouac

Mersiha Bruncevic

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg

Nixon, Kennedy, and Brooks Brothers: Robert Rauschenberg’s Monogram, 1955-59

Max King Cap

city by the sea - Ben Stainton

Collages by Ben Stainton

Ben Stainton

More Art

Essays

Are Made Of - essay by Tomoé Hill

Are Made Of

Tomoé Hill

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee - Richard's Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Richard’s Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee

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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