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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

Dorothea and Will Ladislaw, Middlemarch

The Yoke of Duty: Of Caregiving and Middlemarch

Kate Washington

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

union: credit: em

Six poems by Patrick Mackay

Patrick Mackay

poems by Michael Julian

Two poems by Michael Julian

Michael Julian

More Poetry

Beat Generation

City Lights Bookstore window

A. D. Winans Looks Back at the Beat Generation

A.D. Winans

In honor of Jack’s birthday: 4 Kerouac videos

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Jack Kerouac by Allen Ginsberg

Charged Vision: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

Corey Wade

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Is Southern Art a Thing?: Thoughts from a Technically Southern Arts Writer

Sara Estes

EC Brown Anomalies Shop Detail 6

Standing room only: Inside the workshop of E.C. Brown Anomalies

Ephraim C. Brown

More Art

Essays

the skagit trail / credit: em

Convergence

Etan Nechin

God and the Magical Potato Chips by Jennifer Jordan Schaller

God and the Magical Potato Chips by Jennifer Jordán Schaller

Jennifer Jordán Schaller

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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