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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

Is That You Simon? Akbar Del Piombo

Mutinous Jester: The Collage Novels of Akbar Del Piombo

Gregory Stephenson

Mr. Henry David Thoreau

I Am Nothing: Thoughts on Thoreau

Paul Maher Jr.

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

fossil view / credit: de

Two poems by Risa Denenberg

Risa Denenberg

semi-box / image credit: em

Two poems by john sweet

john sweet

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Book Review — Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

kerouac on the road scroll fragment

Cut-Up (The Stolen Scroll)

Bill Ectric

photo by Bruno Cervera / Unsplash

Blowing: Poetry Meets Music in the Writing of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Say When (detail) - Lita Kenyon

Certain People by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

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

Three Literary-Themed Paintings by Warren J. Cox

Warren Cox

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part I) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan

On Waiting

Yasmine Shamma

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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