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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

Rosamund Lehmann

Aching for Meaning: The Work of Novelist Rosamond Lehmann

Kathryn Hummel

Remembering Fred "F.N." Wright

Uncle Fred: remembering artist and poet F.N. Wright

Natalie Wright

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

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Six poems by Patrick Mackay

Patrick Mackay

isfahan-bridge CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=657963

Poems of Place

Rebecca Gould

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Kerouac Before the Jazz: a review of “The Haunted Life”

Jim Cherry

Kill Your Darlings Movie Trailer

Beat Generation film – Kill Your Darlings trailer released!

Empty Mirror News

Marlie Centawer - a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

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The Beat Generation vs. “Beatniks”

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Figs.03: Franz Marc, Caliban, 1914. (Figure for Shakespeare’s „Der Sturm“. Tempera, 46 x 39.5 cm.) Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett der öffentlichen Kunstsammlung, Switzerland.

The Tempest and the Savages: Franz Marc, Hugo Ball, and a Decisive Moment in Dada-Expressionist Theater With a Special Appearance by August Macke

Jean Marie Carey

Rik Lina - Dragon Mountain

7 Paintings by Rik Lina

Rik Lina

More Art

Essays

Sait Faik Abasiyanik

Sait Faik Abasiyanik: The Man Who Faithfully Embraces the World

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Only Man in the World - Kirby Wright

The Only Man in the World

Kirby Wright

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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