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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

Rosamund Lehmann

Aching for Meaning: The Work of Novelist Rosamond Lehmann

Kathryn Hummel

Empty Mirror - 20 years

On Empty Mirror’s First Twenty Years

Denise Enck

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

San Francisco Chinatown courtesy Roger 4336 http://www.flickr.com/photos/24736216@N07/4061824394/

Jack Kerouac Eats an Eggroll by Andrea Bates

Andrea Bates

Sam Silva - Prayers Made out of Christmas

Prayers Made Out of Christmas: Poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

William S. Burroughs and Cats

The Guardian and the Familiar: William S. Burroughs and Cats

Lee Watkins

Big Sur - Jack Kerouac

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Allen Ginsberg Wait Til I'm Dead Uncollected Poems

Book Review — Wait Til I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's On the Road

Interview – Paul Maher Jr., author of Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

8 new mixed-media pieces by Claudio Parentela

Claudio Parentela

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Standing room only: Inside the workshop of E.C. Brown Anomalies

Ephraim C. Brown

More Art

Essays

Darla

Notes on the Sacred Art of Dog Walking

Chris La Tray

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Surfacing the Toxins

Audrey Burges

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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