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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 - De Profundis

That Deadly Lord Douglas: Oscar Wilde and De Profundis

Kenton Crowther

REVENGE OF THE IMAGIST SOCIALIST POETRY

Revenge of the Imagist Socialist Poetry

Serkan Engin

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Mt. Baker, Washington

All the Notes of the World Symphony by Serkan Engin

Serkan Engin

photo copyright http://www.sxc.hu/profile/dlritter

Music and Sleep

Todd Clouser

More Poetry

Beat Generation

ted joans photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Keith Scotcher and Larry Keenan

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Henri Cru in Greenwich Village, 1987. Photo courtesy of Henri Cru.

“The Old Maestro”: an interview with Kerouac friend Henri Cru by Dave Moore

Dave Moore

Why Kerouac? Rick Dale

Why Kerouac?

Rick Dale

Before and After Desolation: Two Sojourns by Jack Kerouac at Seattle's Hotel Stevens

Before and After Desolation: Two Sojourns by Jack Kerouac at the Hotel Stevens

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Burger Burglar: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Allegory (detail) - Ivica Capan

Present: Collages by Ivica Capan

Ivica Capan

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Essays

up the afternoon / credit: de

Person to Person

Erica Soon Olsen

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part II) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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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