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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

17 Syllables: The Death of Traditional Haiku

M.A. Barrett

Remembering poet Lawrence McGaugh

Denise Enck

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

digital collage / by de

2 poems by Mateo Lara

Mateo Lara

footnotes from history — the debord variations

Colin Campbell Robinson

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson

Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

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

Interview – Paul Maher Jr., author of Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Paul Maher Jr.

Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

kerouac on the road scroll fragment

Cut-Up (The Stolen Scroll)

Bill Ectric

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Tony Rickaby - assemblage

The Way Home II – Assemblages by Michael Wilson

Michael Wilson

Fabio Sassi - Lost Archive

Lost Archive

Fabio Sassi

More Art

Essays

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

the skagit trail / credit: em

Convergence

Etan Nechin

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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