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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

The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volumes 1 and 2

Taking the Poet at his Word: Editing the Poems of T. S. Eliot

Jim McCue

jack kerouac upper peninsula diary

The Jack Kerouac Upper Peninsula Diary by t. kilgore splake, reviewed

Denise Enck

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Farmers, Queens, Trains and Clowns

g emil reutter

alchemy circle 1 / d. enck

2 poems by Brook Bhagat

Brook Bhagat

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Big Sur - Jack Kerouac

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

Gregory Corso mug shot -- prison

Poetic Licence: The Crime and Hard Time of Gregory Corso, or A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Felon

Gregory Stephenson

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . . . reissued.

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac is reissued

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

bloxed (detail)

Visual poetry by Richard Biddle aka (bid)

Richard Biddle aka (bid)

No Way Out (detail) by Nathalie Tierce

Memory of Place: 8 paintings by Nathalie Tierce

Nathalie Tierce

More Art

Essays

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee - Richard's Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Richard’s Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee

on painting on

On Painting On

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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