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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

In Watermelon Sugar

Bruce Hodder’s Ten Favourite Books

Bruce Hodder

poet Risa Denenberg and her book, slight faith

A Conversation with Risa Denenberg

Lauren Davis and Risa Denenberg

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

sky delta - Denise Enck

City of words by rob mclennan

rob mclennan

by the river / credit: de

Four cow poems by Orchid Tierney

Orchid Tierney

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Kerouac Before the Jazz: a review of “The Haunted Life”

Jim Cherry

beat beat beat

The Beat Generation vs. “Beatniks”

Denise Enck

seymour krim

Beat Generation Writer Seymour Krim

Mark Cohen

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . . . reissued.

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac is reissued

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Veiny Cathedral Transaction (detail) - visual poetry by James Knight

Monster: visual poems by James Knight

James Knight

geographies )detail) - Rangemore - Mark Young

geographies by Mark Young

Mark Young

More Art

Essays

after the rains / credit: em

Flash Flood and Visitation

Brandon Noel

Mystery Forest - Denise Enck

The Poetry of Walking

Wendy Gist

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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