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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

franz marc writings - jean marie carey

Between Something and Nothing: Franz Marc’s Authorial Ether

Jean Marie Carey

4 week-old neurons

Raskolnikov and the Peanut: Mirror Neurons & the Arcane Art of Writing – Jasun Horsley

Jasun Horsley

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

San Francisco Chinatown courtesy Roger 4336 http://www.flickr.com/photos/24736216@N07/4061824394/

Jack Kerouac Eats an Eggroll by Andrea Bates

Andrea Bates

Photo by Robert Wilson. Used by permission.

Notes on Three Lost Poems by Gregory Corso

Gregory Stephenson

More Poetry

Beat Generation

kerouac on the road scroll fragment

Cut-Up (The Stolen Scroll)

Bill Ectric

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (11)

Empty Mirror

Kerouac Vanity of Duluoz

Book Review — Vanity of Duluoz by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Big Sur - Kerouac

Prelude to Big Sur: Kerouac in Spring & Summer 1960

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Total Deals (detail) by Drew B. David

Visual Poetry by Drew B. David

Drew B. David

dangle (detail) - merlin flower

3 Paintings by Merlin Flower

Merlin Flower

More Art

Essays

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Surfacing the Toxins

Audrey Burges

Icarus / credit: de

Icarus Regrets Every Tired Muscle

Wm. Anthony Connolly

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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