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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

L - art by D. Enck

“I am a deserter” — Marcel Duchamp

Bobbi Lurie

Robin Coste Lewis - The Voyage of the Sable Venus

Robin Coste Lewis and A New Kind of New York

Alexa Doran

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Two poems by Katherine Fallon

Katherine Fallon

Joseph Severn - Percy Bysshe Shelley

For Shelley on the 4th August, His Birthday – Heathcote Williams

Heathcote Williams

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

ken kesey books

Remembering Ken Kesey

Jason Reott

Jerry Kamstra Weed, reviewed

On the Dangerous Edge of Things: Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler by Jerry Kamstra, reviewed by Gregory Stephenson

Gregory Stephenson

Kerouac books - French

The sardonic pilgrimage of Jack Kerouac

Yannis Livadas

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Cola Wars (detail) - Jonathon Prestidge

Three collages by Jonathon Prestidge

Jonathon Prestidge

Five Pieces by Rose Knapp

Rose Knapp

More Art

Essays

20 east / credit: de

Are Hungry Ghosts Just Ghosts with Borderline Personality Disorder?

Courtney Cook

The Baby in the Air

Max King Cap

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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