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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

Jean Stafford’s Boston Adventure: Tradition and the Talented Individual by Linda Chown

Jean Stafford’s Boston Adventure: Tradition and the Talented Individual

Linda E. Chown

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Sunrise, courtesy http://www.sxc.hu/profile/jcash

6 short poems by Sparrow

Sparrow

tomorrow / credit: d.e.

Two poems by Casimir Wojciech

Casimir Wojciech

More Poetry

Beat Generation

David Amram, Ed Heflin & Joe Kerouac. © Ed Heflin, 2003

An Interview with David Amram: By Your Works Ye Shall Be Known

Ed Heflin

Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Book Review — Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Far-Flung Fragments of Forgotten Kerouaciana

A Few Far-Flung Fragments of Forgotten Kerouaciana

Gregory Stephenson

Gregory Corso - Mindfield

About Gregory Corso

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Claudio Parentela collage (detail)

8 More Collages by Claudio Parentela

Claudio Parentela

Five Pieces by Rose Knapp

Rose Knapp

More Art

Essays

Lexington Avenue by Jeffrey Zeldman

Lexington Avenue

Buku Sarkar

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part I) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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