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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

Yannis Livadas double interview

Yannis Livadas: A double interview

Yannis Livadas

Endgame collage - Denise Enck

Endgame (May you live in interesting times – Chinese Curse)

Bobbi Lurie

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

beach maple / credit: em

Things Happen and three other poems by Sam Silva

Sam Silva

Arlington National Cemetery / credit: Patrick Kelley, U.S. Coast Guard. Public domain.

Patriotism – a poem by Edwin Romond

Edwin Romond

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac Rocky Mount Hall of Fame Potrtrait - inducted by John J. Dorfner

John J. Dorfner on Jack Kerouac’s Induction into the Rocky Mount Hall of Fame

John J. Dorfner

William S. Burroughs collage (detail) by Stephen James

Out to Lunch with William Burroughs: Who Owns the Dropper Owns the Fix

Leon Horton

Ted Joans rhinostopper art

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (6)

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Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (12)

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More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Burrs 1 (detail) by Cam Scott

Visual poetry by Cam Scott: Spools/Burrs (for Clark Coolidge)

Cam Scott

Horse Latitudes by Chris Wilson

Book Review – Horse Latitudes by Chris Wilson

Denise Enck

More Art

Essays

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

The Baby in the Air

Max King Cap

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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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