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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

At the Intersection of Linguistics and Literary Criticism: Objectivist Methodology in the Creation of Metalanguage(s) in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s La Jalousie

Preston Taylor Stone

Afghanistan Sky / U.S. Army

The Consequences of Violence

Steven Thomas Howell

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

extremity / de

Dancing with Words

A.D. Winans

Present Consumption – a poem by Eileen Tull

Eileen Tull

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

Kerouac Gide featured image

Kerouac and An American Marriage

Paul Maher Jr.

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia book review

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia, reviewed by Kevin Riordan

Kevin Riordan

Kerouac notebooks

Are There Any Good Unpublished Kerouac Books Left?

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

monologue I Idetail) by hiromi suzuki

monologue: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Billie 3(detail) - Steve Dalachinsky collage

Two collages and a poem by Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky

More Art

Essays

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

The Seed

The Seed

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

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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