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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

Panic In The Rear-View Mirror: Exploring The Work of Richard Siken and Ann Gale

Rhienna Renee Guedry

An Interview with Poet Jack Leaf Willetts

Denise Enck

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

semi-box / image credit: em

Two poems by john sweet

john sweet

Gordon Skagit Indian Corn - image: D. Enck

An Old Near Abandoned Kitchen: Poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia book review

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia, reviewed by Kevin Riordan

Kevin Riordan

railroad

Lonely? You better believe it.

Alan Griffey

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (13)

Empty Mirror

Moving Towards the Light: the Triumph of Spirituality in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

Moving Towards the Light: The Triumph of Spirituality in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

Jessica Clark

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Paul Hawkins -- Coach House 08 (detail)

from the Coach House Series: text collages by Paul Hawkins

Paul Hawkins

Reaching Out with No Hands - Reconsidering Yoko Ono

Review – Reaching Out with No Hands: Reconsidering Yoko Ono by Lisa Carver

Denise Enck

More Art

Essays

skyview / credit: em

When Fear Sets In

Marina Flores

up the afternoon / credit: de

Person to Person

Erica Soon Olsen

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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