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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

Aldous Huxley's Dianetic Utopia

Aldous Huxley’s Dianetic Utopia

David Wills

Jim Camp’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Two poems by Robyn Pickens

Robyn Pickens

the Douglas Fir at 850 years

Two poems by Carson Faust

Carson Faust

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Jerry Kamstra Weed, reviewed

On the Dangerous Edge of Things: Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler by Jerry Kamstra, reviewed by Gregory Stephenson

Gregory Stephenson

Elegy For My Beat Generation - poetry by Neeli Cherkovski

Neeli Cherkovski’s Elegy For My Beat Generation, reviewed by Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas

Kerouac: On the Binge by Kenton Crowther

Book Review – Kenton Crowther’s Kerouac on the Binge

Denise Enck

railroad

Lonely? You better believe it.

Alan Griffey

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

J.I. Kleinberg - word collages

6 found-word collages by J.I. Kleinberg

J. I. Kleinberg

Parenting (detail) - Margarita Gokun

Seven paintings by Margarita Gokun

Margarita Gokun

More Art

Essays

Photo credit: www.flickr.com/photos/zeroy/5673872877/ Roy Ubu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ CC-NC-ND

Irishry

John O'Kane

Panic Drapes the Look of the World: Literary Treatment for Anxiety in an Uncertain Age

Emily Sinclair

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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