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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

Howl by Allen Ginsberg / Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko / Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich.

Cry, Exploration, Ceremony

Winnie Khaw

Walt Whitman's Talbot Wilson Notebook page

Visionary Markings: Em Dashes and Ellipses in Walt Whitman’s “Talbot Wilson” Notebook

Tom Holmes

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

southcoast / credit: de

A Variable. A Choice. by Gervanna Gravity Stephens

Gervanna Gravity Stephens

any day america

America – a poem by A.D. Winans

A.D. Winans

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Mary Norbert Korte

Denise Enck

Philip Whalen

Denise Enck

Memory Babes: The Legends of Proust and Kerouac Mersiha Bruncevic

Memory Babes: The Legends of Proust and Kerouac

Mersiha Bruncevic

Jerry Kamstra Weed, reviewed

On the Dangerous Edge of Things: Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler by Jerry Kamstra, reviewed by Gregory Stephenson

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Allegory (detail) - Ivica Capan

Present: Collages by Ivica Capan

Ivica Capan

Yen Yen - Rainbow Stacks (detail) watercolor

Everything is Zero Calorie: Watercolors by Yen Yen

Yen Yen

More Art

Essays

Lexington Avenue by Jeffrey Zeldman

Lexington Avenue

Buku Sarkar

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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