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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

Beatitude by Larry Closs

Book review: Beatitude, a novel by Larry Closs

Denise Enck

At the Intersection of Linguistics and Literary Criticism: Objectivist Methodology in the Creation of Metalanguage(s) in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s La Jalousie

Preston Taylor Stone

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Juan Arabia: 5 poems translated by Katherine M. Hedeen

Katherine M. Hedeen and Juan Arabia

New Poems by Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Bowles & I

Vast Regions from Nowhere: Paul Bowles, Unfathered Authors, Mother-Bonded Sons

Jasun Horsley

Iron Curtain Journals by Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg’s Iron Curtain Journals, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

On the Road movie poster

The Official Kerouac “On the Road” Movie Trailer is Here!

Denise Enck

Philip Whalen

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

more trusting - Dev Murphy

Seven Abstract Comics by Dev Murphy

Dev Murphy

All the Light That Never Returns (detail) - Bill Wolak

12 Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

More Art

Essays

Marlie Centawer - a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

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The Muse Cuts: On Mental Health and Writing

Foster McKinnell

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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