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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

Beautiful Raft by Tina Barry

Beautiful Raft: An Interview with Tina Barry

Hannah Grieco and Tina Barry

Native Guard and Bellocq's Opheli by Natasha Trethewey

Historical Punctum: Reading Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia and Native Guard Through the Lens of Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida

Tom Holmes

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

crabpots

Two poems by Alex Gallo-Brown

Alex Gallo Brown

semiahmoo door / credit: de

Observations on the Cynic

Todd Clouser

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake's Influence on Allen Ginsberg by Alexandre Ferrere

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake’s Influence on Allen Ginsberg

Alexandre Ferrere

The Beatific Soul: A film about John J Dorfner

The Beatific Soul: A film featuring Kerouac biographer John J. Dorfner

John J. Dorfner

Bob Kaufman's Lonely Vigil by Michael Amundsen

Bob Kaufman’s Lonely Vigil – Michael Amundsen

Michael Amundsen

On the Road manuscript scroll - Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Manuscript Scroll

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Porcelain Blue (detail) - Rhed Fawell collage

Rhed Fawell: Collage and Embroidery

Rhed Fawell

Red Flowers (detail) by Adrian Jugaru

Five collages by Adrian Jugaru

Adrian Jugaru

More Art

Essays

map and coffee / via unsplash

Becoming Jill Kerouac

Amelia Hruby

Are Made Of - essay by Tomoé Hill

Are Made Of

Tomoé Hill

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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