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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

Kristin Garth The Meadow poetry

Kristin Garth on her new collection, The Meadow — an interview by Amy Suzanne

Kristin Garth and Amy Suzanne

Allen Ginsberg photo by Larry Keenan / Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg: A Story of Influences

Alexandre Ferrere

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Poems by Sam Silva

The Light Within the Darkness and two more poems

Sam Silva

Farmers, Queens, Trains and Clowns

g emil reutter

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Ted Joans WOW sun logo

Ted Joans Lives! Coreley Coit, Kenya Rodriguez, Valery Oisteanu, Hidani Ditmars

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Cosmopolitan Greetings by Allen Ginsberg

Now What’s Wrong? Reflections on Allen Ginsberg’s Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992

Doren Robbins

Gregory Corso - Mindfield

About Gregory Corso

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JK - Jack Kerouac typewriter

October Ghost

Ashley Shelby

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

dangle (detail) - merlin flower

3 Paintings by Merlin Flower

Merlin Flower

collage (detail) by allison anne

Nine collages by allison anne

allison anne

More Art

Essays

The Millstones of History

The Mill Stones of History

Lazar Trubman

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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