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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

Carla Sofia Ferreira - Walt Whitman Laforgue

Frenchness Versus Frenchiness: Laforgue’s Translations and the “Wordly” Estate of Whitman

Carla Sofia Ferreira

franz marc writings - jean marie carey

Between Something and Nothing: Franz Marc’s Authorial Ether

Jean Marie Carey

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Alec Clayton fiction - I'm For an Art

2 Poems by Michael Mark

Michael Mark

Scudder Pond in Early Spring - Denise Enck

4 spring poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Bob Kaufman's Lonely Vigil by Michael Amundsen

Bob Kaufman’s Lonely Vigil – Michael Amundsen

Michael Amundsen

Elegy For My Beat Generation - poetry by Neeli Cherkovski

Neeli Cherkovski’s Elegy For My Beat Generation, reviewed by Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas

ken kesey books

Remembering Ken Kesey

Jason Reott

OTR cover - https://www.flickr.com/photos/lindsaydeebunny/4502353209/

Jack Kerouac’s Books

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

visual poetry (detail) by Sheila E. Murphy

Visual poetry by Sheila E. Murphy

Sheila E. Murphy

Hijos de la Selva: Sons of the Forest

Book Review: Hijos de la Selva: Sons of the Forest

Richard Marcus

More Art

Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part III) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

photo by Daniel Tseng / unsplash

Intimacy with Doors

Bára Hladík

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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