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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

Exit West: a novel by Mohsin Hamid

Freedom in the Physical and Digital City: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West

Ben Berman Ghan

An interview with author Vanessa Blakeslee

Our Ironic Conditions are Shooting Back at Us: A Conversation with Vanessa Blakeslee

Madison Jade and Vanessa Blakeslee

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Oval - D. Raphael

Six poems by Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte

Present Consumption – a poem by Eileen Tull

Eileen Tull

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (11)

Empty Mirror

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

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

Jim Cherry

Larry Keenan, Photographer

About photographer Larry Keenan

Denise Enck

photo credit: adjac

Heeding the Call of the Open Road

Kyrsten Bean

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

GOYA - El aquelarre (Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, 1797-98)

In Goya’s Dark Room

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Juicy Satellite (detail) - collage by hiromi suzuki

Six collages by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part II) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part VI) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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