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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

Carla Sofia Ferreira - Walt Whitman Laforgue

Frenchness Versus Frenchiness: Laforgue’s Translations and the “Wordly” Estate of Whitman

Carla Sofia Ferreira

“Write What My Spirit Demands”: An Interview with Devorah Major on Writing in Multiple Genres

Rochelle Spencer and Devorah Major

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

possibilities / credit: de

Three poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz

Jose Hernandez Diaz

digital collage / by de

2 poems by Mateo Lara

Mateo Lara

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac books - French

The sardonic pilgrimage of Jack Kerouac

Yannis Livadas

Bob Kaufman's Lonely Vigil by Michael Amundsen

Bob Kaufman’s Lonely Vigil – Michael Amundsen

Michael Amundsen

29 Russell St., 1999, by Joshua Medsker

Neal and Carolyn Cassady’s house at 29 Russell St., San Francisco

Josh Medsker

The Ghost Sonata - Vincent Zangrillo

The Ghost Sonata

Vincent Zangrillo

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

donkeys find an opening (detail) - Jill Emery

Workings: Paintings by Jill Emery

Jill Emery

Tony Rickaby - assemblage

The Way Home II – Assemblages by Michael Wilson

Michael Wilson

More Art

Essays

Plain Sight by Matt Dube

Plain Sight

Matt Dube

eyes on 8 by Emilie Kneifel

eyes on / horizon by Emilie Kneifel

Emilie Kneifel

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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