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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

Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts - Jorie Graham

“No, this was all first person”: Revisiting Jorie Graham’s Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts

Timothy Duffy

An interview with Argentinian poet, publisher and translator, Juan Arabia

Neil Leadbeater and Juan Arabia

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

San Francisco Chinatown courtesy Roger 4336 http://www.flickr.com/photos/24736216@N07/4061824394/

Jack Kerouac Eats an Eggroll by Andrea Bates

Andrea Bates

bison

A Prison Poem by Neeli Cherkovski

Neeli Cherkovski

More Poetry

Beat Generation

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

kerouac on the road scroll fragment

Cut-Up (The Stolen Scroll)

Bill Ectric

Allen Ginsberg HOWL

Chorus of Poets Gather for Allen Ginsberg “Howl” Celebration (2005)

Teresa Conboy

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (12)

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More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

The Yellow Line (detail) - Fabio Sassi

The Yellow Line

Fabio Sassi

ria bauwens - enveloppes

enveloppes: collages by Ria Bauwens

Ria Bauwens

More Art

Essays

Aztek peak fire lookout - John Yohe / Edward Abbey

Aztec Summer

John Yohe

The moon over Aaqrabâte, Syria / photo by Samer Daboul

Chasing the Moon

Sarah Zanabli

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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