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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

Wordworth & Kerouac

Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence

William R. Soldan

Tin House 2014 notebook

Fully Aboard the Flesh Wagon: Tin House Writers Workshop, Summer 2014

Randy Osborne

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

the door / credit: em

Long Before the Peaceful Song: Poems

Sam Silva

Digital art by D. Raphael

For the Woman Who Keeps My Forever

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans rhinostopper art

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (6)

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an interview with Carolyn Cassady

For Beat’s Sake: An Interview with Carolyn Cassady

Jon Alan Carroll

David Amram / Ted Joans

David Amram: To Laura for Ted Joans

David Amram

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (9)

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More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Charles Bukowski (copyright Loren Kantor / http://woodcuttingfool.blogspot.com/)

A Gallery of Woodcut Prints by Loren Kantor

Loren Kantor

Formulation of Human (detail)- Darrell Urban Black

Twelve artworks by Darrell Urban Black

Darrell Urban Black

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part VI) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

Cowboy

El Condor Pasa

Sarah Glady

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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