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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

Pablo Neruda and the Virtues of Laziness by Joseph Rodgers

Pablo Neruda and the Virtues of Laziness

Joseph Rodgers

Edward Field and partner Neil

Secret of the Masters: An Interview with Poet Edward Field

James Schwartz

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

steering wheel

Two poems by Amy Soricelli

Amy Soricelli

YOU in trees

Two poems by Lauren Saxon

Lauren Saxon

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Gregory Corso mug shot -- prison

Poetic Licence: The Crime and Hard Time of Gregory Corso, or A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Felon

Gregory Stephenson

Visions of Cody, a book of martyrdom

Yannis Livadas

Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's On the Road

Excerpt from Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Paul Maher Jr.

Beatitude 50th Anniversary - Latif Harris

Book Review — Beatitude Golden Anniversary: 1959-2009

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

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

Sara Estes

Meat 2 (detail) - Jorge Chamorro

Meat: 5 collages by Jorge Chamorro

Jorge Chamorro

More Art

Essays

on painting on

On Painting On

Nanette Jordan

Denise Enck

Marshmallow Forest

Melissa Wiley

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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