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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

Andy Kaufman Still Alive?

Is Andy Kaufman Still Alive? The Evidence

Jack Bristow

Beatitude by Larry Closs

Book review: Beatitude, a novel by Larry Closs

Denise Enck

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Juan Arabia: 5 poems translated by Katherine M. Hedeen

Katherine M. Hedeen and Juan Arabia

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Music and Sleep

Todd Clouser

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Philip Whalen

Denise Enck

Jack Kerouac - Library of America

An interview on Jack Kerouac and Library of America

Paul Maher Jr.

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (13)

Empty Mirror

Iron Curtain Journals by Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg’s Iron Curtain Journals, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Burning Factory 1 - Sander Steins

Burning Factories: Art by Sander Steins

Sander Steins

oblivion 1 (detail) - visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

Oblivion — visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

Dearly Beloved, Part II: Growing up in Bohemian 1950s San Francisco

Nanette Jordan

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Surfacing the Toxins

Audrey Burges

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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