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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

Robin Coste Lewis - The Voyage of the Sable Venus

Robin Coste Lewis and A New Kind of New York

Alexa Doran

An interview with author Vanessa Blakeslee

Our Ironic Conditions are Shooting Back at Us: A Conversation with Vanessa Blakeslee

Madison Jade and Vanessa Blakeslee

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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5 Poems by Colin Dodds

Colin Dodds

the path

Poems by Heidi Williamson

Heidi Williamson

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Creative Birth of Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s Creative Birth

Paul Maher Jr.

Jack Kerouac - Library of America

An interview on Jack Kerouac and Library of America

Paul Maher Jr.

City Lights Bookstore window

A. D. Winans Looks Back at the Beat Generation

A.D. Winans

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Kerouac and the Outsider – A Puzzle

Dave Moore

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

József Bíró - visual poetry

Visual poetry by József Bíró

József Bíró

Burrs 1 (detail) by Cam Scott

Visual poetry by Cam Scott: Spools/Burrs (for Clark Coolidge)

Cam Scott

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

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

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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