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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

desolation angels

Christina C.’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

The Glass Slipper: Deconstructing Cinderella's Magical Accessory

The Glass Slipper: Deconstructing Cinderella’s Magical Accessory

Robert Boucheron

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Four Poems by Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte

nest / credit: d.raphael

Back Principles: Poems by Stephen Bett

Stephen Bett

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (2)

Empty Mirror

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

Larry Keenan, Photographer

About photographer Larry Keenan

Denise Enck

Kerouac Vanity of Duluoz

Book Review — Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Silver (detail) - Kalliope Amorphous

Saint Celluloid: self-portraits by Kalliope Amorphous

Kalliope Amorphous

oblivion 1 (detail) - visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

Oblivion — visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

photo credit: Digital Third Eye

From Motown to Mowtown

Andrew Lees

credit: Viktor Dukov / Unsplash

Birds, Caves, Time by Nels Hanson

Nels Hanson

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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