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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

Andy Kaufman Still Alive?

Is Andy Kaufman Still Alive? The Evidence

Jack Bristow

Wordworth & Kerouac

Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence

William R. Soldan

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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5 poems by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

ancient glass afternoon

Three poems by Ann Eleven

Ann Eleven

More Poetry

Beat Generation

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Jack Kerouac’s Books

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Big Sur - Kerouac

Prelude to Big Sur: Kerouac in Spring & Summer 1960

Paul Maher Jr.

JK - Jack Kerouac typewriter

October Ghost

Ashley Shelby

William S. Burroughs collage (detail) by Stephen James

Out to Lunch with William Burroughs: Who Owns the Dropper Owns the Fix

Leon Horton

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

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Terre: visual poetry

hiromi suzuki

Nothing (but) 3 / hiromi suzuki

Nothing (but)

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

Sara Coleridge

My Coleridge: On Five Poems by Sara Coleridge

Stephanie Limb

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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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