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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

Remembering and Jane Austen - Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Remembering and Jane

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Is That You Simon? Akbar Del Piombo

Mutinous Jester: The Collage Novels of Akbar Del Piombo

Gregory Stephenson

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

‘weather reports’: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Blue Heart Jazz (detail) by Rachel Davis

Blue Heart Jazz: Paintings by Rachel Davis and Poems by Sam Silva

Rachel Davis and Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

City Lights Bookstore window

A. D. Winans Looks Back at the Beat Generation

A.D. Winans

goodbye, ted joans - jack foley

Jack Foley: Goodbye, Ted Joans

Jack Foley

BEAT The Latter Days of the Beat Generation, A First-Hand Account - Andy Clausen

Beat: The Latter Days of the Beat Generation, A First-Hand Account by Andy Clausen

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.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Western (detail) - Kareem Rizk

Collages by Kareem Rizk

Kareem Rizk

Burning Factory 1 - Sander Steins

Burning Factories: Art by Sander Steins

Sander Steins

More Art

Essays

map and coffee / via unsplash

Becoming Jill Kerouac

Amelia Hruby

current / credit: em

Surfacing the Toxins

Audrey Burges

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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