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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

Oscar Wilde reclining

The Beauty in Hatred: Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Theory in De Profundis

Stacey Mankoff

Victor Serge by Douglas Penick

At Liberation’s Heart: A (Self) Portrait of Victor Serge

Douglas Penick

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

semiahmoo tree

Two poems by Alina Stefanescu

Alina Stefanescu

Huntington Pier / Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bmh4you/84188300/ b r e n t

Four Poems by George Moore

George Moore

More Poetry

Beat Generation

boundary road, with blueberries

Juxtaposition of Wor[l]ds: The Cultural and Literary Legacy of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

ken kesey books

Remembering Ken Kesey

Jason Reott

Kerouac notebooks

Are There Any Good Unpublished Kerouac Books Left?

Paul Maher Jr.

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Francis Palanc by Yannis Livadas

Autogéométrie: The Art Brut of Francis Palanc

Yannis Livadas

ptg series 11 art carlyle baker

New Digital Art by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

More Art

Essays

Cowboy

El Condor Pasa

Sarah Glady

Dearly Beloved - Nanette Jordan

Dearly Beloved, Part I: Growing up in 1950s San Francisco

Nanette Jordan

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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