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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

Complete Fiction Bruno Schulz

Ten Favorite Books List Contributed by Little

Top Ten List Contributor

Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Collage

Henry and Me

Steve Wheeler

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

the corner of columbia and pacific -- D. Enck

Poetry by Carl Boon

Carl Boon

ten mile / credit: d.e.

Three poems by Linda E. Chown

Linda E. Chown

More Poetry

Beat Generation

seymour krim

Beat Generation Writer Seymour Krim

Mark Cohen

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Kerouac Before the Jazz: a review of “The Haunted Life”

Jim Cherry

Kerouac: Avatar for American Buddhism by Michael Amundsen

Jack Kerouac: Avatar of American Buddhism

Michael Amundsen

On the Road illustartion copyright Paul Rogers

David Handley interviews Paul Rogers about his work & the On the Road illustrations

David Handley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Cola Wars (detail) - Jonathon Prestidge

Three collages by Jonathon Prestidge

Jonathon Prestidge

Doghouse (detail) by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Buckaroo, Desire, Doghouse, Cowgirl: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

More Art

Essays

Home (detail). Photo by Tara Shepersky.

Love Song for a River Bank

Tara K. Shepersky

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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