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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

A Wreath for William H. Gass by Alex Lanz

A Wreath for William H. Gass

Alex Lanz

Bruno Sourdin interview with Gary Cummiskey

Anything Can Happen: Bruno Sourdin in conversation with Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

mosaic via sxc.hu/profile/ortonesque

4 poems by Sam Silva

Sam Silva

Digital art by D. Raphael

For the Woman Who Keeps My Forever

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Kerouac Before the Jazz: a review of “The Haunted Life”

Jim Cherry

Allen Ginsberg HOWL

Chorus of Poets Gather for Allen Ginsberg “Howl” Celebration (2005)

Teresa Conboy

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

Excerpt from Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Paul Maher Jr.

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Konstruktion B (detail) - Kon Markogiannis collage

Four collages by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

monologue I Idetail) by hiromi suzuki

monologue: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

International Times launch party flyer and debut issue / image credit: http://www.international-times.org.uk/ITarchive.htm

London 1966: I.T., the Camel, and a Song Named Me

Gloria Avner

Photo credit: www.flickr.com/photos/zeroy/5673872877/ Roy Ubu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ CC-NC-ND

Irishry

John O'Kane

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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