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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

Rosamund Lehmann

Aching for Meaning: The Work of Novelist Rosamond Lehmann

Kathryn Hummel

steppenwolf

Poet A.D. Winans’ Top Ten Books List

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Two poems by Robyn Pickens

Robyn Pickens

Current

birthday by William Bortz

William Bortz

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ruth Weiss / copyright Horst Spandler

In honor of ruth weiss on her 85th birthday

Horst Spandler

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

Celebrating ruth weiss on her 90th birthday

Horst Spandler

grass

The Great Consciousness of Life

Paul Maher Jr.

William S. Burroughs and Cats

The Guardian and the Familiar: William S. Burroughs and Cats

Lee Watkins

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

(detail) Getting Measured, 1999. Acrylic, tracing paper and string on canvas. Collection of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University. ©Mernet Larsen

Mernet Larsen: Getting Measured, 1957-2017

Jean Marie Carey

circular reference (detail) - mixed media collage by Kelly Schaub

Nine Mixed Media Collages by Kelly Schaub

Kelly Schaub

More Art

Essays

Darla

Notes on the Sacred Art of Dog Walking

Chris La Tray

Marlie Centawer

Subterranean Boy

Marlie Centawer

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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