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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

Five Past Noon: Reading Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America

Five Past Noon: Reading Darkness at Noon in Trump’s America

Michael Huguenor

Heathcote Williams at 217a Westbourne Park Road (undated) – photo by Jay Jeff Jones

Remembering the Truth Dentist: Heathcote Williams by Jay Jeff Jones

Jay Jeff Jones

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Poetry

Salish Sea freighter / credit: de

3 poems by Jim Bennett

Jim Bennett

A.D. Winans poetry

A Call to Poets

A.D. Winans

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

Practice of the Wild - Gary Snyder

Book Review – The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder

Eric D. Lehman

Harry Nudel: Ted Joans LIves

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Harry Nudel

Harry Nudel

La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Michelle Dunaway

Art and the Artist: An Interview with Michelle Dunaway

Merlin Flower

(detail) visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

Chocolate, Cigar and Orange Pekoe: visual poems by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

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Essays

The Seed

The Seed

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Brooke Knisley

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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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