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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

A Thank You to Joyce Carol Oates

Joys and Ticks: A Thank You to Joyce Carol Oates

Sarah Kennedy

jack kerouac upper peninsula diary

The Jack Kerouac Upper Peninsula Diary by t. kilgore splake, reviewed

Denise Enck

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

fill / em

Two poems by Michael O’Shaughnessy

Michael O'Shaughnessy

logjam

6 poems by Lucas Margarit, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen

Lucas Margarit and Katherine M. Hedeen

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (8)

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Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (7)

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Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

In Memoriam: Bruce Conner, 1933-2008

In Memoriam: Bruce Conner, 1933-2008

Michael McClure

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Regenerate (detail) painting by Amy Guidry

In Our Veins: Paintings by Amy Guidry

Amy Guidry

Konstruktion B (detail) - Kon Markogiannis collage

Four collages by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

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Essays

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

Hear That Lonesome Whistle

Jason Hardung

Marlie Centawer - a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

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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