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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

Kristin Garth The Meadow poetry

Kristin Garth on her new collection, The Meadow — an interview by Amy Suzanne

Kristin Garth and Amy Suzanne

Robin Coste Lewis - The Voyage of the Sable Venus

Robin Coste Lewis and A New Kind of New York

Alexa Doran

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Drift Bottle / Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomastern/12407730413/ Infomastern

Drift Bottle Prose Poems

Laura Madeline Wiseman

poems by Conley Lowrance

Poems by Conley Lowrance

Conley Lowrance

More Poetry

Beat Generation

rob lee poets photos

Beat Generation Photos by Rob Lee

Rob Lee

Laura Corsiglia and Ted Joans

Remembering Ted Joans – Beat / Surrealist Poet & Artist

Denise Enck

Moving Towards the Light: the Triumph of Spirituality in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

Moving Towards the Light: The Triumph of Spirituality in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

Jessica Clark

Jack Kerouac’s “Strange Cemetery in Jamaica”

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

-blue 11 no. 2 (detail) by bruno neiva

re-blues 11 series

bruno neiva

Wash Up (detail) photo by Braxton Younts

Shelter me! A photo essay by Braxton Younts

Braxton Younts

More Art

Essays

the skagit trail / credit: em

Convergence

Etan Nechin

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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