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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

Art has side effects, I said - Bobbi Lurie - Marcel Duchamp

“Art has side effects,” I said.

Bobbi Lurie

Is That You Simon? Akbar Del Piombo

Mutinous Jester: The Collage Novels of Akbar Del Piombo

Gregory Stephenson

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

tulip fields / credit: em

2 poems for Easter (Video)

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Photo credit: Rich Anderson / CC BY-SA / photoshopped by Empty Mirror

Ginsberg’s Refrigerator

Alessandra Bava

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Gotham Book Mart - Evan P. Cordes

Being Michael Brownstein – Thomas Locicero

Thomas Locicero

Bowles & I

Vast Regions from Nowhere: Paul Bowles, Unfathered Authors, Mother-Bonded Sons

Jasun Horsley

Jack Kerouac Rocky Mount Hall of Fame Potrtrait - inducted by John J. Dorfner

John J. Dorfner on Jack Kerouac’s Induction into the Rocky Mount Hall of Fame

John J. Dorfner

And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead: a review of the Bob Kaufman documentary

Jared Feldschreiber

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

The Yellow Line (detail) - Fabio Sassi

The Yellow Line

Fabio Sassi

Hand 5 (detail) - James Williams Jr.

Field Hands

James Williams Jr.

More Art

Essays

in the window / image by de from photo by milada vigerova

essays in the face of uncertainties

rob mclennan

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

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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