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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

Writers on Writers on Writers I: Linda Chown on E.L. Doctorow on Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

Linda E. Chown

An interview with Argentinian poet, publisher and translator, Juan Arabia

Neil Leadbeater and Juan Arabia

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Blue Heart Jazz (detail) by Rachel Davis

Blue Heart Jazz: Paintings by Rachel Davis and Poems by Sam Silva

Rachel Davis and Sam Silva

Lake

Two poems by Nicole Burney

Nicole Burney

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia book review

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia, reviewed by Kevin Riordan

Kevin Riordan

Why Kerouac? Rick Dale

Why Kerouac?

Rick Dale

an interview with Carolyn Cassady

For Beat’s Sake: An Interview with Carolyn Cassady

Jon Alan Carroll

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

On Henry James erasure poem by Andre Bagoo

On Henry James: Four Erasure Poems by Andre Bagoo

Andre Bagoo

Warren J Cox - Homage to Bobbie Ann Mason (detail)

Three Literary-Themed Paintings by Warren J. Cox

Warren Cox

More Art

Essays

Photo by Ant Rozetsky on Unsplash / edited by Empty Mirror

Milkman by Anna Burns: a soundtrack to street harassment

Laura Eppinger

photo credit: Digital Third Eye

From Motown to Mowtown

Andrew Lees

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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