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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

Stephanie Dickinson and Rosalind Palermo Stevenson conversation

Writing Through Icons: Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson on Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg

Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson

John Keats by Joseph Severn 1819

Negative Capability: Keats and Buddha

Alfred K. LaMotte

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Drift Bottle / Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomastern/12407730413/ Infomastern

Drift Bottle Prose Poems

Laura Madeline Wiseman

tulip fields / credit: em

2 poems for Easter (Video)

Empty Mirror

More Poetry

Beat Generation

alan ansen 1973

In Memory of Poet Alan Ansen: Biography, Books & Links

Denise Enck

Big Sur film - Kerouac

Jack Kerouac – “Big Sur” Movie Trailer

Denise Enck

Laura Corsiglia and Ted Joans

Remembering Ted Joans – Beat / Surrealist Poet & Artist

Denise Enck

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

A.D. Winans Remembers Jack Micheline

A.D. Winans

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

All the Light That Never Returns (detail) - Bill Wolak

12 Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

Caving with Malcom (detail) - Rodica Miller

The Mists of Youth: Oil Paintings

Rodica Miller

More Art

Essays

Darla

Notes on the Sacred Art of Dog Walking

Chris La Tray

Plain Sight by Matt Dube

Plain Sight

Matt Dube

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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