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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

Stephanie Dickinson and Rosalind Palermo Stevenson conversation

Writing Through Icons: Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson on Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg

Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson

Original image: Olivetti Lettera 32, c. 1975 by mpclemens / Foter.com / CC BY. Photoshopped greatly by Empty Mirror.

Typewriter Experiment #1: Getting to Know You

James Patrick

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Joost de Jonge

Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest

Joost de Jonge and John Fuller

Crown Point -- by D. Enck

Carolina Ends in Deep August: Poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

29 Russell St., 1999, by Joshua Medsker

Neal and Carolyn Cassady’s house at 29 Russell St., San Francisco

Josh Medsker

Kirby Doyle poet

Remembering Poet Kirby Doyle

Michael McClure

Ruth Weiss / copyright Horst Spandler

In honor of ruth weiss on her 85th birthday

Horst Spandler

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (1)

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

The Palette Series #3 (detail), Mariia Magoly

The Palette Series: Collages by Mariia Magoly

Mariia Magoly

Rik Lina - Leporello

Rik Lina Painting a Leporello

Rik Lina

More Art

Essays

cache / image credit: de

The Muse Cuts: On Mental Health and Writing

Foster McKinnell

elementary / credit: em

Endless Preface to an Imaginary Work

Evelynn Black

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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