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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

Jason Stoneking and Celia Daley

Bespoke Books: An interview with Jason Stoneking

Jason Stoneking and Celia Galey

V - Pynchon

Top Ten Books List Contributed by John W.

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

digital collage / by de

2 poems by Mateo Lara

Mateo Lara

beach maple / credit: em

Things Happen and three other poems by Sam Silva

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Creative Birth of Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s Creative Birth

Paul Maher Jr.

Seymour Wyse, Horace Mann School, 1940, courtesy of Dave Moore

Kerouac — “My really best friend…” an interview with Seymour Wyse by Dave Moore

Dave Moore

Here to Learn: Remembering Paul Bowles by Mark Terrill

Here to Learn: Remembering Paul Bowles by Mark Terrill

Mark Terrill

ted joans interview teducated

The Teducated Mouth: John Barbato interviews Ted Joans

Ted Joans

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Billie 3(detail) - Steve Dalachinsky collage

Two collages and a poem by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

ria bauwens - enveloppes

enveloppes: collages by Ria Bauwens

Ria Bauwens

More Art

Essays

trail of the cedars / d.enck

Exposed by Patty Somlo

Patty Somlo

Faleeha Hassan - My Life as an Iraqi Refugee

Faleeha Hassan: My Life as a Refugee

Faleeha Hassan

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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