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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

D.H. Lawrence's Pansies, Nettles, and More Pansies: A Jeremiad by Kenneth Pobo

D.H. Lawrence’s Pansies, Nettles, and More Pansies: A Jeremiad

Kenneth Pobo

Wordworth & Kerouac

Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence

William R. Soldan

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

2 Poems by Craig Kocij

2 Poems by Craig Kocij

Craig Kocij

off five-forty-two / credit: em

Four poems for Empty Mirror by rob mclennan

rob mclennan

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Gloria Avner and David Gitin

Remembering poet David Gitin

Sam Vinicur

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr. considers Kerouac’s Haunted Life

Paul Maher Jr.

Vincent Zangrillo

Remembering Vincent Zangrillo

Empty Mirror

In honor of Jack’s birthday: 4 Kerouac videos

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Ice Bone (detail) - Judith Skillman painting

Six paintings by Judith Skillman

Judith Skillman

Lauralee Sikorski

Almost There: Paintings by Lauralee Sikorski

Lauralee Sikorski

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Essays

This High

Ben Shaberman

Photo credit: www.flickr.com/photos/zeroy/5673872877/ Roy Ubu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ CC-NC-ND

Irishry

John O'Kane

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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