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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

Jim Camp’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

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

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

sky delta - Denise Enck

City of words by rob mclennan

rob mclennan

Poems by Jeff Bagato

Jeff Bagato

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives

Ted Joans Lives! Michael Hayward, Jake Lamar, Bernie Mindich, and Guy Pierre Buchholtzer

Empty Mirror

Philip Whalen

Denise Enck

How Kerouac's haikus saved my life

How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

Bridget McNulty

beat beat beat

The Beat Generation vs. “Beatniks”

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

actual size collage (detail) - Steve Dalachinsky

Five poems and four collages by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

Shelter from the Storm 10 (detail) - James Williams Jr.

Shelter from the Storm: Photographs by James Williams Jr.

James Williams Jr.

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Essays

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

Richard’s Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee

Are Made Of - essay by Tomoé Hill

Are Made Of

Tomoé Hill

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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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