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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

Empty Mirror - 20 years

On Empty Mirror’s First Twenty Years

Denise Enck

Confessions of a Hachish Eater

”Curious and Not Un-poetical Imaginings”: A Forgotten Specimen of Victorian Cannabis Writing

Gregory Stephenson

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

whitman ii collage - d.e.

Free Speech Cantos – Michael Ceraolo

Michael Ceraolo

Street Flowers by Alexis Doyen

A Song Which the Artist Inspires: Poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac Vanity of Duluoz

Book Review — Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (1)

Empty Mirror

Jack Kerouac - Library of America

An interview on Jack Kerouac and Library of America

Paul Maher Jr.

Tristessa by Jack Kerouac, book cover

Book Review — Tristessa by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Integrant 11 collage by Lita Poliakova

Integrant: Collages by Lita Poliakova

Lita Poliakova

Is That You Simon? Akbar Del Piombo

Mutinous Jester: The Collage Novels of Akbar Del Piombo

Gregory Stephenson

More Art

Essays

Jenny Lynn

Jenny Lynn

Lloyd Bond

eyes on 8 by Emilie Kneifel

eyes on / horizon by Emilie Kneifel

Emilie Kneifel

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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