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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

Jitterbug Pefume

Peter’s Top Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

Edward Field and partner Neil

Secret of the Masters: An Interview with Poet Edward Field

James Schwartz

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

the path

Poems by Heidi Williamson

Heidi Williamson

boundary road / credit: em

Sky Pieces: three poems by Michael Lehman

Michael Lehman

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Where to buy Beat Generation Books

For collectors: where and how to buy Beat Generation books (and others)

Denise Enck

Kenneth Tindall - Great Heads

Interview with Kenneth Tindall: From Bellevue to Lynæs. An Interview by Lars Movin

Kenneth Tindall

Allen Ginsberg photo by Larry Keenan / Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg: A Story of Influences

Alexandre Ferrere

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Four Owls (detail) - Francesca Badea

The Owls Series by Francesca Badea

Francesca Badea

Juicy Satellite (detail) - collage by hiromi suzuki

Six collages by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

animals, seven days old

Animals, Seven Days Old

Lake Vargas

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part VI) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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