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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

Was Roosevelt Reciting Poetry?

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

Dustin Junkert

Jean Stafford’s Boston Adventure: Tradition and the Talented Individual by Linda Chown

Jean Stafford’s Boston Adventure: Tradition and the Talented Individual

Linda E. Chown

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Poetry

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Poems from Matt Hill’s Pellucid Inferno

Matt Hill

Gordon Skagit Indian Corn - image: D. Enck

An Old Near Abandoned Kitchen: Poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (7)

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Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake's Influence on Allen Ginsberg by Alexandre Ferrere

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake’s Influence on Allen Ginsberg

Alexandre Ferrere

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

The Rebirth of the Author in On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Rebirth of the Author in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Eric V. Patterson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Hush Now Little Baby (detail) - Adrian Jugaru

Six collages by Adrian Jugaru

Adrian Jugaru

Ask again when you're alone - Lita Kenyon

A Moment Just About to Happen: Collages by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

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Essays

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee - Richard's Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Richard’s Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee

Bellingham, WA sunset -- Boulevard Park

Spring in Cascadia

David Marshall

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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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