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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

federico garcia lorca

Remembering Federico García Lorca

Steve Pelletier

Tin House 2014 notebook

Fully Aboard the Flesh Wagon: Tin House Writers Workshop, Summer 2014

Randy Osborne

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Crown Point -- by D. Enck

Carolina Ends in Deep August: Poems

Sam Silva

Blue Plateau. Image credit: Denise Enck

A Different Inspiration: Poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

railroad

Lonely? You better believe it.

Alan Griffey

Far-Flung Fragments of Forgotten Kerouaciana

A Few Far-Flung Fragments of Forgotten Kerouaciana

Gregory Stephenson

an interview with Carolyn Cassady

For Beat’s Sake: An Interview with Carolyn Cassady

Jon Alan Carroll

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

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

deathpunch - Nicholas Lockyer

A Gallery of Collages by Nicholas Lockyer

Nicholas Lockyer

Private Eyes 2 (detail) hiromi suzuki

Private Eyes: Collages

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

lake padden

Something About Rage and the Light Dying

Jason Hardung

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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