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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

Endgame collage - Denise Enck

Endgame (May you live in interesting times – Chinese Curse)

Bobbi Lurie

Oscar Wilde - De Profundis

That Deadly Lord Douglas: Oscar Wilde and De Profundis

Kenton Crowther

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

cali / credit: em

Two poems by Amee Nassrene Broumand

Amee Nassrene Broumand

sky delta - Denise Enck

City of words by rob mclennan

rob mclennan

More Poetry

Beat Generation

ruth and Hal Davis on their porch. Photo by Horst Spandler, 2013.

Celebrating ruth weiss on her 90th birthday

Horst Spandler

Max Douglas poetry

Max Douglas, Poet

Empty Mirror

Elegy For My Beat Generation - poetry by Neeli Cherkovski

Neeli Cherkovski’s Elegy For My Beat Generation, reviewed by Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas

Kerouac notebooks

Are There Any Good Unpublished Kerouac Books Left?

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Son of Daedalus: poem with 2 paintings by Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

Blue Heart Jazz (detail) by Rachel Davis

Blue Heart Jazz: Paintings by Rachel Davis and Poems by Sam Silva

Rachel Davis

More Art

Essays

Photo by Alina Daniker on Unsplash

No Place Like Home

Angela Mayorga

Las Meninas (detail) by Diego Vasquez

Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994

Sara Schaff

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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