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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

4 week-old neurons

Raskolnikov and the Peanut: Mirror Neurons & the Arcane Art of Writing – Jasun Horsley

Jasun Horsley

In Xochitl In Cuicatl: Poets Nezahualcoyotl and Humberto Ak’abal by Jose Trejo Maya

In Xochitl In Cuicatl: Poets Nezahualcoyotl and Humberto Ak’abal

Jose Trejo Maya

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Oval - D. Raphael

Six poems by Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte

Addisonia / 1902

Three poems by Elizabeth Threadgill

Elizabeth Threadgill

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Bob Kaufman's Lonely Vigil by Michael Amundsen

Bob Kaufman’s Lonely Vigil – Michael Amundsen

Michael Amundsen

Kerouac books - French

The sardonic pilgrimage of Jack Kerouac

Yannis Livadas

The Beats: A Short Introduction by David Sterritt

Review – The Beats: A Very Short Introduction by David Sterritt

Denise Enck

Old Angel Midnight

Earwitness Testimony: Sound and Sense, Word and Void in Jack Kerouac’s Old Angel Midnight

Gregory Stephenson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Hand 5 (detail) - James Williams Jr.

Field Hands

James Williams Jr.

Michelle Dunaway

Art and the Artist: An Interview with Michelle Dunaway

Merlin Flower

More Art

Essays

Sara Coleridge

My Coleridge: On Five Poems by Sara Coleridge

Stephanie Limb

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part I) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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