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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

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf

David Gitin’s Ten Favorite Books

David Gitin

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake's Influence on Allen Ginsberg by Alexandre Ferrere

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake’s Influence on Allen Ginsberg

Alexandre Ferrere

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Drift Bottle / Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomastern/12407730413/ Infomastern

Drift Bottle Prose Poems

Laura Madeline Wiseman

poems by Conley Lowrance

Poems by Conley Lowrance

Conley Lowrance

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Sinclair Beiles - courtesy of GC - from the book Bone Hebrew

Sinclair Beiles: A Man Apart

Josh Medsker

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (13)

Empty Mirror

The Beatific Soul: A film about John J Dorfner

The Beatific Soul: A film featuring Kerouac biographer John J. Dorfner

John J. Dorfner

Tristessa by Jack Kerouac, book cover

Book Review — Tristessa by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Breath (detail) - painting by Kate Brown

Bowls: Six paintings by Kate Brown

Kate Brown

The Palette Series #3 (detail), Mariia Magoly

The Palette Series: Collages by Mariia Magoly

Mariia Magoly

More Art

Essays

on painting on

On Painting On

Nanette Jordan

photo credit: Digital Third Eye

From Motown to Mowtown

Andrew Lees

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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