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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

Remembering and Jane Austen - Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Remembering and Jane

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Allen Ginsberg photo by Larry Keenan / Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg: A Story of Influences

Alexandre Ferrere

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

rosario / credit: de

Three poems by marcia arrieta

Marcia Arrieta

san juan / image: de

3 poems by Cooper Wilhelm

Cooper Wilhelm

More Poetry

Beat Generation

city lights books

A.D. Winans on A.D. Winans

A.D. Winans

Howard Hart and Raymond Foye, by T. Walden

Remembering poet Howard Hart

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The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr. considers Kerouac’s Haunted Life

Paul Maher Jr.

photo by Bruno Cervera / Unsplash

Blowing: Poetry Meets Music in the Writing of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

bloxed (detail)

Visual poetry by Richard Biddle aka (bid)

Richard Biddle aka (bid)

Horatio (detail) by Silas Plum

Portals: Paintings by Silas Plum

Silas Plum

More Art

Essays

drawing of man with guitar

Being There – Michelle Bracken

Michelle Bracken

Joseph Magnin dress salon

Sleevelessness: Growing Up in Midcentury San Francisco by Nanette Jordan

Nanette Jordan

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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