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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

In Xochitl In Cuicatl: Poets Nezahualcoyotl and Humberto Ak’abal by Jose Trejo Maya

In Xochitl In Cuicatl: Poets Nezahualcoyotl and Humberto Ak’abal

Jose Trejo Maya

Andy Kaufman Still Alive?

Is Andy Kaufman Still Alive? The Evidence

Jack Bristow

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

last reading (detail) - JC Osthoorn

eye the beholder

JC Olsthoorn

Nooksack River Sunlight / credit: dre

Two poems by Brittany Helmick

Brittany Helmick

More Poetry

Beat Generation

OTR cover - https://www.flickr.com/photos/lindsaydeebunny/4502353209/

Jack Kerouac’s Books

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Ted Joans

I, Too, at the Beginning by Ted Joans

Ted Joans

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia book review

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia, reviewed by Kevin Riordan

Kevin Riordan

Allen Ginsberg

Celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s birthday with a few videos

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

BIOMES: Paintings by Jonathan Matteson

Jonathan Matteson

alphabets (detail) - ji kleinberg

Eight found-word collage poems by J.I. Kleinberg

J. I. Kleinberg

More Art

Essays

The Seed

The Seed

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

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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