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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

Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Collage

Henry and Me

Steve Wheeler

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Halley's Comet

Two poems by Nick D’Annunzio Jones

Nick D’Annunzio Jones

fossil view / credit: de

Two poems by Risa Denenberg

Risa Denenberg

More Poetry

Beat Generation

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

BEAT The Latter Days of the Beat Generation, A First-Hand Account - Andy Clausen

Beat: The Latter Days of the Beat Generation, A First-Hand Account by Andy Clausen

Marc Olmsted

Kerouac Gide featured image

Kerouac and An American Marriage

Paul Maher Jr.

Marlie Centawer - a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Private Eyes 2 (detail) hiromi suzuki

Private Eyes: Collages

hiromi suzuki

visual poetry (detail) by Sheila E. Murphy

Visual poetry by Sheila E. Murphy

Sheila E. Murphy

More Art

Essays

Las Meninas (detail) by Diego Vasquez

Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994

Sara Schaff

My Father's Map - Jan Glazewski

My Father’s Map

Jan Glazewski

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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