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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

IF by Rudyard Kipling

The Middle Word in Life: Dennis Hopper and Rudyard Kipling’s “If”

Stephen Lee Naish

Remembering Fred "F.N." Wright

Uncle Fred: remembering artist and poet F.N. Wright

Natalie Wright

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Scaling the Scaffolding

S.R. Lavin

Long Beach WA watercolor / credit: de

Three poems by Bailey Grey

Bailey Grey

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

The Language of Bebop: Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

Nicole Henares

Gotham Book Mart - Evan P. Cordes

Being Michael Brownstein – Thomas Locicero

Thomas Locicero

Harry Nudel: Ted Joans LIves

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Harry Nudel

Harry Nudel

How Kerouac's haikus saved my life

How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

Bridget McNulty

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

what remains (detail) - Kelly Schaub mixed media collage

Abstract Musings: Kelly Schaub’s mixed media collages

Kelly Schaub

- David Hickman collage

10 Digital Collages by David Hickman

David Hickman

More Art

Essays

Home (detail). Photo by Tara Shepersky.

Love Song for a River Bank

Tara K. Shepersky

daydream on the forest pond / credit: de

The Pointless Forest

Emily O'Neill

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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