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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

Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer censorship

“My Friend the Censor”: Henry Miller, Huntington Cairns, and Tropic of Cancer

Arthur Hoyle

steppenwolf

Poet A.D. Winans’ Top Ten Books List

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

early tulips

Six Poems by Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner

Photo by Robert Wilson. Used by permission.

Notes on Three Lost Poems by Gregory Corso

Gregory Stephenson

More Poetry

Beat Generation

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

Ted Joans rhinostopper art

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (6)

Empty Mirror

boundary road, with blueberries

Juxtaposition of Wor[l]ds: The Cultural and Literary Legacy of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

Jack Kerouac - The Sea is My Brother

Addendum to “Lost Letter Found”

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Konstruktion B (detail) - Kon Markogiannis collage

Four collages by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

Doghouse (detail) by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Buckaroo, Desire, Doghouse, Cowgirl: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

More Art

Essays

Joseph Magnin dress salon

Sleevelessness: Growing Up in Midcentury San Francisco by Nanette Jordan

Nanette Jordan

On Crooked Legs of Hackberry

With Crooked Legs of Hackberry

Gregory Ormson

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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