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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

federico garcia lorca

Remembering Federico García Lorca

Steve Pelletier

The Glass Slipper: Deconstructing Cinderella's Magical Accessory

The Glass Slipper: Deconstructing Cinderella’s Magical Accessory

Robert Boucheron

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Crown Point -- by D. Enck

Carolina Ends in Deep August: Poems

Sam Silva

loam / d.enck

Two poems by Ojo Taiye

Ojo Taiye

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac Gide featured image

Kerouac and An American Marriage

Paul Maher Jr.

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

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

On the Road illustartion copyright Paul Rogers

David Handley interviews Paul Rogers about his work & the On the Road illustrations

David Handley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Francis Palanc by Yannis Livadas

Autogéométrie: The Art Brut of Francis Palanc

Yannis Livadas

Raoul (detail) - Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Insignia: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

More Art

Essays

Only Man in the World - Kirby Wright

The Only Man in the World

Kirby Wright

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

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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