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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

Mr. Henry David Thoreau

I Am Nothing: Thoughts on Thoreau

Paul Maher Jr.

At the Intersection of Linguistics and Literary Criticism: Objectivist Methodology in the Creation of Metalanguage(s) in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s La Jalousie

Preston Taylor Stone

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

beach maple / credit: em

Things Happen and three other poems by Sam Silva

Sam Silva

5 Poems by Jeff Bagato

Jeff Bagato

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (8)

Empty Mirror

poet and painter Kay Johnson / Beat Hotel resident

Poet Kay Johnson, aka Kaja

David Gitin

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr. considers Kerouac’s Haunted Life

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Doghouse (detail) by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Buckaroo, Desire, Doghouse, Cowgirl: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Verboten by Samy Sfoggia

Photography: Verboten by Samy Sfoggia

Samy Sfoggia

More Art

Essays

photo by Laura Johnson

Desert Alignment

Laura Johnson

On Crooked Legs of Hackberry

With Crooked Legs of Hackberry

Gregory Ormson

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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