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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

Yannis Livadas double interview

Yannis Livadas: A double interview

Yannis Livadas

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

parity

Two poems: The Nut Graph and Pith by Sanjeev Sethi

Sanjeev Sethi

Sunrise, courtesy http://www.sxc.hu/profile/jcash

6 short poems by Sparrow

Sparrow

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Bob Kaufman's Lonely Vigil by Michael Amundsen

Bob Kaufman’s Lonely Vigil – Michael Amundsen

Michael Amundsen

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia book review

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia, reviewed by Kevin Riordan

Kevin Riordan

Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's On the Road

Excerpt from Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Paul Maher Jr.

Where to buy Beat Generation Books

Links to Beat Generation writers, artists, and resources

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Raoul (detail) - Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Insignia: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

EC Brown Anomalies Shop Detail 6

Standing room only: Inside the workshop of E.C. Brown Anomalies

Ephraim C. Brown

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part III) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

photo by Yuxiang Zhang

Spot the Differences

Taylor Byas

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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