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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

Is Southern Art a Thing?: Thoughts from a Technically Southern Arts Writer

Sara Estes

Artificial Paradises by Charles Baudelaire

Ten Favorite Books List Contributed by Josechu C.

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Salish Sea freighter / credit: de

3 poems by Jim Bennett

Jim Bennett

I Kissed You with Sparrows by Serkan Engin / digital collage by D Raphael

I Kissed You with Sparrows

Serkan Engin

More Poetry

Beat Generation

outsider 2

Kerouac and the Outsider – A Puzzle

Dave Moore

The First Third - Neal Cassady

Who was Neal Cassady?

Empty Mirror

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

Celebrating ruth weiss on her 90th birthday

Horst Spandler

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Say When (detail) - Lita Kenyon

Certain People by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

atmosphere 01 (detail) - Carlyle Baker

New Art by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

More Art

Essays

Great Northern Railway logo / Joe Mabel

How to Die Like You Meant It

Jeff Beddow

Cowboy

El Condor Pasa

Sarah Glady

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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