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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

Bruno Sourdin interview with Gary Cummiskey

Anything Can Happen: Bruno Sourdin in conversation with Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey

V - Pynchon

Top Ten Books List Contributed by John W.

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Scaling the Scaffolding

S.R. Lavin

war flower poem

A poem by Mohammad Afandideh

Mohammad Afandideh

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

Bob Kaufman's Lonely Vigil by Michael Amundsen

Bob Kaufman’s Lonely Vigil – Michael Amundsen

Michael Amundsen

kerouac on the road scroll fragment

Cut-Up (The Stolen Scroll)

Bill Ectric

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

dangle (detail) - merlin flower

3 Paintings by Merlin Flower

Merlin Flower

Hush Now Little Baby (detail) - Adrian Jugaru

Six collages by Adrian Jugaru

Adrian Jugaru

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Essays

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Brooke Knisley

in the window / image by de from photo by milada vigerova

essays in the face of uncertainties

rob mclennan

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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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