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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

Jim Camp’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

(detail) Bottle, Carafe, Jug and Lemons

Lemon Calls to Lemon: The Visual Poetics of D. H. Lawrence, Jack Spicer, and Robert Kroetsch

Ty Clever

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

semiahmoo electric

3 poems by Dennis Mahagin

Dennis Mahagin

Poetry by Line Toftsø

Line Toftsø

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Mary Norbert Korte

Denise Enck

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

boundary road, with blueberries

Juxtaposition of Wor[l]ds: The Cultural and Literary Legacy of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

Carl Solomon - Mishaps, Perhaps

Two Songs for Samson: An Invective Poem for Carl Solomon

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Hand 5 (detail) - James Williams Jr.

Field Hands

James Williams Jr.

Horatio (detail) by Silas Plum

Portals: Paintings by Silas Plum

Silas Plum

More Art

Essays

peaches

Under His Roof

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

the skagit trail / credit: em

Convergence

Etan Nechin

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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