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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

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

Artificial Paradises by Charles Baudelaire

Ten Favorite Books List Contributed by Josechu C.

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

walking

The Best Poetry Books by Duarte Canario

Duarte Canario

image credit: http://www.freeimages.com/profile/aranuir

On Leaving Peru: 5 poems by Todd Clouser

Todd Clouser

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Railroad Earth - Photo is Road to Nowhere by Blue Betty via http://www.sxc.hu/profile/bluebetty, photoshopped by Empty Mirror

October in the Railroad Earth – Jack Kerouac

Empty Mirror

poet and painter Kay Johnson / Beat Hotel resident

Poet Kay Johnson, aka Kaja

David Gitin

Gregory Corso - Mindfield

About Gregory Corso

Empty Mirror

The Creative Birth of Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s Creative Birth

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Insomniac 3 - Fine art photography by Fabio Sassi

Insomniacs: Photography by Fabio Sassi

Fabio Sassi

boat 1 (detail) cr resetarits

Eight pieces by C.R. Resetarits

C. R. Resetarits

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part IV) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

Photo by Alina Daniker on Unsplash

No Place Like Home

Angela Mayorga

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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