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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

Andalusian Dogging by Erik Verhaar

Book Review – Erik Verhaar’s Andalusian Dogging

Denise Enck

Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer censorship

“My Friend the Censor”: Henry Miller, Huntington Cairns, and Tropic of Cancer

Arthur Hoyle

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

credit: Eastman / public domain

Liz Taylor’s Lovers – for Ted Joans

Steve Dalachinsky

containers / credit: em

Broken Glosa: an alphabet book of post avant glosa by Stephen Bett

Stephen Bett

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (10)

Empty Mirror

photo credit: adjac

Heeding the Call of the Open Road

Kyrsten Bean

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

Kerouac Vanity of Duluoz

Book Review — Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Electric Cholla - William Clarkson

The cholla garden at Joshua Tree: paintings by William Clarkson

William Clarkson

Meat 2 (detail) - Jorge Chamorro

Meat: 5 collages by Jorge Chamorro

Jorge Chamorro

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part V) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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