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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

Courtney Zoffness interview - Brian DiNuzzo

Talking writing with award-winning author Courtney Zoffness

Courtney Zoffness and Brian DiNuzzo

Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Collage

Henry and Me

Steve Wheeler

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Zen Moon

Moon Songs: two poems by Matthew Woodman

Matthew Woodman

Ada Lovelace

3 poems by Vivian Wagner

Vivian Wagner

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Kerouac Before the Jazz: a review of “The Haunted Life”

Jim Cherry

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

Big Sur - Jack Kerouac

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (13)

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Mark Rothko, Untitled (detail)

Rothko’s Passage Through Fear and Trembling During the Seagram Murals

George Saitoh

Agnes Denes Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule (detail)- 11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years (Triptych) 1992-1996, 1992/2013 Type-C print 36 x 36 inches Copyright Agnes Denes, courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Minimizing Monetization Earth: Agnes Denes’ Art

John K Grande

More Art

Essays

The Baby in the Air

Max King Cap

The Millstones of History

The Mill Stones of History

Lazar Trubman

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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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