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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 Invitation of the Mirror: Jonathan Lethem & Me, from the Margin to the Mainstream

Jasun Horsley

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

nest / emb

Three Poems by Andrew Galan

Andrew Galan

downstairs

Three pieces for Beat poets

Jillian Moreno

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Big Sur film - Kerouac

Jack Kerouac – “Big Sur” Movie Trailer

Denise Enck

Mario Cesariny by Carlos Botelho

Remembering Surrealist Mario Cesariny

Denise Enck

Allen Ginsberg

Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s birthday with a few videos

Denise Enck

Practice of the Wild - Gary Snyder

Book Review – The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Still Life Mashup (detail)

Mashups: Canvases from 2013-2017 by Gregg Simpson

Gregg Simpson

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

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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