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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

Mr. Henry David Thoreau

I Am Nothing: Thoughts on Thoreau

Paul Maher Jr.

Robin Coste Lewis - The Voyage of the Sable Venus

Robin Coste Lewis and A New Kind of New York

Alexa Doran

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

any day america

America – a poem by A.D. Winans

A.D. Winans

Four poems by Sam Silva

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Why Kerouac? Rick Dale

Why Kerouac?

Rick Dale

grass

The Great Consciousness of Life

Paul Maher Jr.

Jack Kerouac by Allen Ginsberg

Charged Vision: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg

Corey Wade

from the video "Gregory Corso Walks & Talks in Rome, " Dario Bellini / YouTube

4 terrific Gregory Corso videos

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

mixed media art (detail) by Stephen Lee Naish

Four Paintings and a Poem by Stephen Lee Naish

Stephen Lee Naish

Horse Latitudes by Chris Wilson

Book Review – Horse Latitudes by Chris Wilson

Denise Enck

More Art

Essays

photo by Daniel Tseng / unsplash

Intimacy with Doors

Bára Hladík

after the rains / credit: em

Flash Flood and Visitation

Brandon Noel

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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