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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

Is That You Simon? Akbar Del Piombo

Mutinous Jester: The Collage Novels of Akbar Del Piombo

Gregory Stephenson

franz marc writings - jean marie carey

Between Something and Nothing: Franz Marc’s Authorial Ether

Jean Marie Carey

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Teresa K. Miller: poems from California Building

Teresa K. Miller

Alec Clayton fiction - I'm For an Art

2 Poems by Michael Mark

Michael Mark

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Sinclair Beiles - courtesy of GC - from the book Bone Hebrew

Sinclair Beiles: A Man Apart

Josh Medsker

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

Juan Arabia - Jack Kerouac

Beatnik / Kerouac and Rock ‘n Roll: Two essays by Juan Arabia

Juan Arabia

Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson

Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

GOYA - El aquelarre (Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, 1797-98)

In Goya’s Dark Room

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

13 Collages by Rhed Fawell

Rhed Fawell

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Essays

photo credit: Digital Third Eye

From Motown to Mowtown

Andrew Lees

Aztek peak fire lookout - John Yohe / Edward Abbey

Aztec Summer

John Yohe

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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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