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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

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue - Emmanuelle Pagano

Faces on the Tip of My Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano: Nataliya Deleva interviews translators Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

Nataliya Deleva, Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins

Henry David Thoreau and John Brown

The Sons of Anak: Henry David Thoreau and John Brown

Paul Maher Jr.

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Ship (detail) by Carrie DeBacker

Little Spells: Poems by Maya Jewell Zeller

Maya Jewell Zeller

Skagit Farm by Denise Enck

In a Time Under Morning’s Spell: Poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac by Joerg Haeske

Review – Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac, by Joerg Haeske

Denise Enck

Allen Ginsberg - HOWL

The Howl Hat

Jason Stoneking

Where to buy Beat Generation Books

For collectors: where and how to buy Beat Generation books (and others)

Denise Enck

Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

EMMET GOWIN Edith, Chinoteague, Virginia, 1967 (detail)

Modern photographer Emmet Gowin

Leah Kelly

Joy of Water 3 (detail) - hiromi suzuki

Joy of Water: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part I) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Brooke Knisley

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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