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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

Aldous Huxley's Dianetic Utopia

Aldous Huxley’s Dianetic Utopia

David Wills

Writers on Writers on Writers I: Linda Chown on E.L. Doctorow on Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

Linda E. Chown

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Stack - D. Raphael

Magic – Amy Fusselman

Amy Fusselman

Two poems by Katherine Fallon

Katherine Fallon

More Poetry

Beat Generation

David Amram / Ted Joans

David Amram: To Laura for Ted Joans

David Amram

Jack Kerouac - The Sea is My Brother

Addendum to “Lost Letter Found”

Paul Maher Jr.

boundary road, with blueberries

Juxtaposition of Wor[l]ds: The Cultural and Literary Legacy of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

Laura Corsiglia and Ted Joans

Remembering Ted Joans – Beat / Surrealist Poet & Artist

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Burrs 1 (detail) by Cam Scott

Visual poetry by Cam Scott: Spools/Burrs (for Clark Coolidge)

Cam Scott

rik lina - painting - surrealist - featured image

Rik Lina: 5 Paintings

Rik Lina

More Art

Essays

Joseph Magnin dress salon

Sleevelessness: Growing Up in Midcentury San Francisco by Nanette Jordan

Nanette Jordan

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Eight Hours

Marina Petrova

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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