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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

Andalusian Dogging by Erik Verhaar

Book Review – Erik Verhaar’s Andalusian Dogging

Denise Enck

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

David Gitin’s Ten Favorite Books

David Gitin

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

On the Road at Moses Coulee / credit: denise enck

Anaphora: Four Approximations

Casimir Wojciech

semiahmoo / credit: em

from Borderline Fortune: Three poems by Teresa K. Miller

Teresa K. Miller

More Poetry

Beat Generation

On the Road manuscript scroll - Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Manuscript Scroll

Empty Mirror

Kerouac notebooks

Are There Any Good Unpublished Kerouac Books Left?

Paul Maher Jr.

Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

Jack Kerouac - The Sea is My Brother

A “lost” Jack Kerouac letter found . . . and “lost” again.

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

9 collages by Magda Dudziak

Magda Dudziak

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

Sara Estes

More Art

Essays

daydream on the forest pond / credit: de

The Pointless Forest

Emily O'Neill

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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