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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

Sarah Trembath interview

It Was The Scarlet That Did It: An Interview with Sarah Trembath

Hannah Grieco and Sarah Trembath

Kristin Garth The Meadow poetry

Kristin Garth on her new collection, The Meadow — an interview by Amy Suzanne

Kristin Garth and Amy Suzanne

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

tent city

3 Poems by Viatrix Curry

Viatrix Curry

loam / d.enck

Two poems by Ojo Taiye

Ojo Taiye

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kirby Doyle poet

Remembering Poet Kirby Doyle

Michael McClure

Before and After Desolation: Two Sojourns by Jack Kerouac at Seattle's Hotel Stevens

Before and After Desolation: Two Sojourns by Jack Kerouac at the Hotel Stevens

Gregory Stephenson

Allen Ginsberg HOWL

Chorus of Poets Gather for Allen Ginsberg “Howl” Celebration (2005)

Teresa Conboy

Bowles & I

Vast Regions from Nowhere: Paul Bowles, Unfathered Authors, Mother-Bonded Sons

Jasun Horsley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

actual size collage (detail) - Steve Dalachinsky

Five poems and four collages by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

Billie 3(detail) - Steve Dalachinsky collage

Two collages and a poem by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

More Art

Essays

Icarus / credit: de

Icarus Regrets Every Tired Muscle

Wm. Anthony Connolly

The Seed

The Seed

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

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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