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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

Bukowski letter to Robert Bly. Joshua Preston

“Said God, Scratching His Naked Belly in a Kitchen”: Charles Bukowski to Robert Bly

Joshua Preston

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

Poems by Amy Soricelli

3 Poems by Amy Soricelli

Amy Soricelli

Nooksack River Sunlight / credit: dre

Two poems by Brittany Helmick

Brittany Helmick

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Big Sur - Kerouac

Prelude to Big Sur: Kerouac in Spring & Summer 1960

Paul Maher Jr.

outsider 2

Kerouac and the Outsider – A Puzzle

Dave Moore

Sinclair Beiles - courtesy of GC - from the book Bone Hebrew

Sinclair Beiles: A Man Apart

Josh Medsker

William Burroughs, portrait by Graziano Origa, pen & ink, 1997

Junk Nightmares

Lee Watkins

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

more trusting - Dev Murphy

Seven Abstract Comics by Dev Murphy

Dev Murphy

Urban Beat (detail) by Mardi de Veuve Alexis

9 mixed-media pieces by Mardi de Veuve Alexis

Mardi de Veuve Alexis

More Art

Essays

elementary / credit: em

Endless Preface to an Imaginary Work

Evelynn Black

Sait Faik Abasiyanik

Sait Faik Abasiyanik: The Man Who Faithfully Embraces the World

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

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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