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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

William S Burroughs copyright Christiaan Tonnis http://www.flickr.com/photos/christiaan_tonnis/3678726329/

A William S. Burroughs top ten from Jed B. with his comments

Top Ten List Contributor

root exposure / credit: de

Fluency in Translation: Avoiding Homogeneity and Ethnocentrism by Alice Banks

Alice Banks

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Farandole by Julie Sargent

Poems by Lucía Estrada, translated by Olivia Lott

Olivia Lott and Lucía Estrada

drew gardner poems

Poems by Drew Gardner

Drew Gardner

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac books - French

The sardonic pilgrimage of Jack Kerouac

Yannis Livadas

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . . . reissued.

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac is reissued

Paul Maher Jr.

Bowles & I

Vast Regions from Nowhere: Paul Bowles, Unfathered Authors, Mother-Bonded Sons

Jasun Horsley

The First Third - Neal Cassady

Who was Neal Cassady?

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

rob lee poets photos

Beat Generation Photos by Rob Lee

Rob Lee

Joost de Jonge

Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest

Joost de Jonge

More Art

Essays

Great Northern Railway logo / Joe Mabel

How to Die Like You Meant It

Jeff Beddow

elementary / credit: em

Endless Preface to an Imaginary Work

Evelynn Black

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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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