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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

Scattered Clouds: New and Selected Poems by Reuben Jackson

Clara B. Jones interviews poet Reuben Jackson

Clara B. Jones

Victor Serge by Douglas Penick

At Liberation’s Heart: A (Self) Portrait of Victor Serge

Douglas Penick

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

boulevard ii / credit: de

a tribute to creeley — Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

pieces of the story / credit: de

At the Carnival of Drunken Poets

Alfred K. LaMotte

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

Love and the Titanic: Notes on Last Words: The Final Journals of William Burroughs

Lee Watkins

Visions of Cody, a book of martyrdom

Yannis Livadas

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (7)

Empty Mirror

Jerry Kamstra Weed, reviewed

On the Dangerous Edge of Things: Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler by Jerry Kamstra, reviewed by Gregory Stephenson

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg

Nixon, Kennedy, and Brooks Brothers: Robert Rauschenberg’s Monogram, 1955-59

Max King Cap

Popcorn Clouds (detail), William Clarkson

Seven Cloud Paintings by William Clarkson

William Clarkson

More Art

Essays

20 east / credit: de

Are Hungry Ghosts Just Ghosts with Borderline Personality Disorder?

Courtney Cook

Art has side effects, I said - Bobbi Lurie - Marcel Duchamp

“Art has side effects,” I said.

Bobbi Lurie

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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