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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

Wordworth & Kerouac

Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence

William R. Soldan

Stephanie Dickinson and Rosalind Palermo Stevenson conversation

Writing Through Icons: Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson on Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg

Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Splice

City of the Red Night: Burroughs poems by Alan Catlin

Alan Catlin

cloudune / credit: de

Three poems by Jennifer Vaknine

Jennifer Vaknine

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac, reviewed by Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman

Free Beer: Kicks & Truth with Jack Kerouac by Cliff Anderson

Review – Free Beer: Kicks and Truth with Jack Kerouac by Cliff Anderson

Denise Enck

Philip Whalen

Denise Enck

Big Sur - Jack Kerouac

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Steve Dalachinsky mail art collage (detail)

Todd Swindell and Steve Dalachinsky: A Collage Mail Art Correspondence

Todd Swindell

Spring Garden MFL, (detail) 06.04.2017

Urban Geologies

Orchid Tierney

More Art

Essays

Art has side effects, I said - Bobbi Lurie - Marcel Duchamp

“Art has side effects,” I said.

Bobbi Lurie

White Jesus -- Todd Clouser

White Jesus – A reflection on summer camp and Charlottesville

Todd Clouser

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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