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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

Jean Stafford’s Boston Adventure: Tradition and the Talented Individual by Linda Chown

Jean Stafford’s Boston Adventure: Tradition and the Talented Individual

Linda E. Chown

Stephanie Dickinson and Rosalind Palermo Stevenson conversation

Writing Through Icons: Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson on Franz Kafka and Jean Seberg

Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Stephanie Dickinson

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Empty Mirror Books

Poem for a Lady Boy

Todd Clouser

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Computer Classical Radio: Four poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Seymour Wyse, Horace Mann School, 1940, courtesy of Dave Moore

Kerouac — “My really best friend…” an interview with Seymour Wyse by Dave Moore

Dave Moore

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation

The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation

Sean Negus

Why Kerouac? Rick Dale

Why Kerouac?

Rick Dale

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

(detail) visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

Chocolate, Cigar and Orange Pekoe: visual poems by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

constellations collage (detail) by Tim Stuemke

Constellations: Collages by Tim Stuemke

Tim Stuemke

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Essays

animals, seven days old

Animals, Seven Days Old

Lake Vargas

Faleeha Hassan - My Life as an Iraqi Refugee

Faleeha Hassan: My Life as a Refugee

Faleeha Hassan

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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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