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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

An Interview with Poet Jack Leaf Willetts

Denise Enck

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Detroit, Airport

Todd Clouser

Big Sur / credit: James Donovan

Sleeping by Big Sur

James K. Moran

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Book Review — Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, reviewed by Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman

Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

The Language of Bebop: Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

Nicole Henares

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

deathpunch - Nicholas Lockyer

A Gallery of Collages by Nicholas Lockyer

Nicholas Lockyer

- David Hickman collage

10 Digital Collages by David Hickman

David Hickman

More Art

Essays

Cowboy

El Condor Pasa

Sarah Glady

The Millstones of History

The Mill Stones of History

Lazar Trubman

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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