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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

Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Collage

Henry and Me

Steve Wheeler

Beautiful Raft by Tina Barry

Beautiful Raft: An Interview with Tina Barry

Hannah Grieco and Tina Barry

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Two poems: “Ed Dorn Beside the Cloud of Unknowing” and “Fantasia”

Jim Nawrocki

St. Huncke / credit: de

St. Huncke

Jim Nawrocki

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Book Review — Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Wordworth & Kerouac

Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence

William R. Soldan

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

A.D. Winans Remembers Jack Micheline

A.D. Winans

William S. Burroughs collage (detail) by Stephen James

Out to Lunch with William Burroughs: Who Owns the Dropper Owns the Fix

Leon Horton

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

atmosphere 01 (detail) - Carlyle Baker

New Art by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

Cynthia Yachtman - Woman with Heron (detail)

Mixed-media pieces by Cynthia Yachtman

Cynthia Yachtman

More Art

Essays

Lexington Avenue by Jeffrey Zeldman

Lexington Avenue

Buku Sarkar

credit: Viktor Dukov / Unsplash

Birds, Caves, Time by Nels Hanson

Nels Hanson

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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