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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 Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

Gloria Avner’s Ten Favorite Books

Gloria Avner

Lord of the Rings

Eric D. Lehman’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Photo by Robert Wilson. Used by permission.

Notes on Three Lost Poems by Gregory Corso

Gregory Stephenson

Sam Silva - Prayers Made out of Christmas

Prayers Made Out of Christmas: Poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg: Howl (for the queer and disabled Americans)

Ben Berman Ghan

ted joans photo by larry keenan (lo res)

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Keith Scotcher and Larry Keenan

Empty Mirror

Beatitude 50th Anniversary - Latif Harris

Book Review — Beatitude Golden Anniversary: 1959-2009

Denise Enck

Mary Norbert Korte

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Integrant 11 collage by Lita Poliakova

Integrant: Collages by Lita Poliakova

Lita Poliakova

more trusting - Dev Murphy

Seven Abstract Comics by Dev Murphy

Dev Murphy

More Art

Essays

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Birds, Caves, Time by Nels Hanson

Nels Hanson

map and coffee / via unsplash

Becoming Jill Kerouac

Amelia Hruby

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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