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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

Mt. Baker seen from Mt. Watson. Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bthompson/5011625855/ Ben Thompson

Nature As Muse: The World of Fine Writing

Doug Scott

Marcel Duchamp by Man Ray

Concealing The Light From The Lit

Bobbi Lurie

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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5 poems by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Riverside Columbia / credit: de

Three poems by Constance Bacchus

Constance Bacchus

More Poetry

Beat Generation

AD Winans remembers Bob Kaufman

A.D. Winans Remembers Bob Kaufman

A.D. Winans

On the Road movie poster

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

Denise Enck

Ruth Weiss / copyright Horst Spandler

In honor of ruth weiss on her 85th birthday

Horst Spandler

How Kerouac's haikus saved my life

How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

Bridget McNulty

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

JUNCTION by Robert R. Thurman

Robert R. Thurman

rob lee poets photos

Beat Generation Photos by Rob Lee

Rob Lee

More Art

Essays

Candy Darling on her Deathbed by Peter Hujar, used as cover photo for I Am a Bird Now / fair use

Candy Says, by Kaiya Gordon

Kaiya Gordon

An excerpt from Rachmil Bryks' memoir, The Fugitives translated from Yiddish by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

An excerpt from Rachmil Bryks’ memoir, The Fugitives, translated from the Yiddish by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

Rachmil Bryks and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub

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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