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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

Empty Mirror - 20 years

On Empty Mirror’s First Twenty Years

Denise Enck

Was Roosevelt Reciting Poetry?

Was Roosevelt Reciting Poetry?: The Need for a New Prosody

Dustin Junkert

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/karmadude/8302907982/ Liji Jinaraj

Poems by Sarah Stockton

Sarah Stockton

natural artifacts / credit: de

Three Poems by Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac, reviewed by Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman

Mario Cesariny by Carlos Botelho

Remembering Surrealist Mario Cesariny

Denise Enck

Allen Ginsberg Wait Til I'm Dead Uncollected Poems

Book Review — Wait Til I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

Mary Norbert Korte

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Konstruktion B (detail) - Kon Markogiannis collage

Four collages by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

Burger Burglar: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

on painting on

On Painting On

Nanette Jordan

Art has side effects, I said - Bobbi Lurie - Marcel Duchamp

“Art has side effects,” I said.

Bobbi Lurie

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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