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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

The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

Gloria Avner’s Ten Favorite Books

Gloria Avner

Beatitude by Larry Closs

Book review: Beatitude, a novel by Larry Closs

Denise Enck

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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6 poems by Bradford Middleton

Bradford Middleton

beach maple / credit: em

Things Happen and three other poems by Sam Silva

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Larry Keenan, Photographer

About photographer Larry Keenan

Denise Enck

Ted Joans Lives

Ted Joans Lives! Michael Hayward, Jake Lamar, Bernie Mindich, and Guy Pierre Buchholtzer

Empty Mirror

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

Kerouac Vanity of Duluoz

Book Review — Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Five Pieces by Rose Knapp

Rose Knapp

Joost de Jonge

Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest

Joost de Jonge

More Art

Essays

Great Northern Railway logo / Joe Mabel

How to Die Like You Meant It

Jeff Beddow

Union Pacific / copyright http://foter.com/portfolio/slambo-4/

Hear That Lonesome Whistle

Jason Hardung

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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