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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

Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Collage

Henry and Me

Steve Wheeler

Endgame collage - Denise Enck

Endgame (May you live in interesting times – Chinese Curse)

Bobbi Lurie

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

I Am San Francisco

A.D. Winans

Blue Plateau. Image credit: Denise Enck

A Different Inspiration: Poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac by Joerg Haeske

Review – Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac, by Joerg Haeske

Denise Enck

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (9)

Empty Mirror

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

A.D. Winans Remembers Jack Micheline

A.D. Winans

The First Third - Neal Cassady

Who was Neal Cassady?

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Dawn Reaching into Darkness - Bill Wolak collage (detail)

12 Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

Parts of Speech (detail) by Hoop & Stick

A One-Sided Knife Fight: Collages by Hoop & Stick

Hoop & Stick

More Art

Essays

On Crooked Legs of Hackberry

With Crooked Legs of Hackberry

Gregory Ormson

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

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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