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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

Allen Ginsberg photo by Larry Keenan / Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg: A Story of Influences

Alexandre Ferrere

Heathcote Williams at 217a Westbourne Park Road (undated) – photo by Jay Jeff Jones

Remembering the Truth Dentist: Heathcote Williams by Jay Jeff Jones

Jay Jeff Jones

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

recall / credit: em

Four poems by Allan Graubard: For Steve Dalachinsky, Ira Cohen, and Ronnie Burk

Allan Graubard

september 80 / image: d.enck

Three poems by Edgar Rincón Luna, translated by Toshiya Kamei

Edgar Rincón Luna and Toshiya Kamei

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Bob Kaufman's Lonely Vigil by Michael Amundsen

Bob Kaufman’s Lonely Vigil – Michael Amundsen

Michael Amundsen

David Amram, Ed Heflin & Joe Kerouac. © Ed Heflin, 2003

An Interview with David Amram: By Your Works Ye Shall Be Known

Ed Heflin

Big Sur - Kerouac

Prelude to Big Sur: Kerouac in Spring & Summer 1960

Paul Maher Jr.

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

Title goes up the side (detail) - collage by Alicia Cole

Three collages by Alicia Cole

Alicia Cole

visual poetry (detail) - nico vassilakis

Pre Word: ego is dead. Visual poetry by Nico Vassilakis

Nico Vassilakis

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Essays

Threshold_2 (detail) Tara K Shepersky

Conversations at Thresholds: a Contemplative Offering

Tara K. Shepersky

daydream on the forest pond / credit: de

The Pointless Forest

Emily O'Neill

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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