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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

William S Burroughs copyright Christiaan Tonnis http://www.flickr.com/photos/christiaan_tonnis/3678726329/

A William S. Burroughs top ten from Jed B. with his comments

Top Ten List Contributor

Andalusian Dogging by Erik Verhaar

Book Review – Erik Verhaar’s Andalusian Dogging

Denise Enck

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Oval - D. Raphael

Six poems by Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte

Gates at the metro-station Bullewijk, subway of Amsterdam City (detail) by Hilly van Eerten

4 poems by Mark Terrill

Mark Terrill

More Poetry

Beat Generation

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

Some Kind of Dharma 1 (detail) - Steve Paul

Some Kind of Dharma: Photographs

Steve Paul

Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Book Review — Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

The Sea is My Brother - Jack Kerouac

The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac, Reviewed by Jack Leaf Willetts

Jade Leaf Willetts

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

GOYA - El aquelarre (Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, 1797-98)

In Goya’s Dark Room

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Electric Cholla - William Clarkson

The cholla garden at Joshua Tree: paintings by William Clarkson

William Clarkson

More Art

Essays

Body Bereft of Fitton Farm - Justine Fitton

Body Bereft of Fitton Farm

Justine Fitton

Are Made Of - essay by Tomoé Hill

Are Made Of

Tomoé Hill

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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