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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

Native Guard and Bellocq's Opheli by Natasha Trethewey

Historical Punctum: Reading Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia and Native Guard Through the Lens of Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida

Tom Holmes

Sara Coleridge

My Coleridge: On Five Poems by Sara Coleridge

Stephanie Limb

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

drew gardner poems

Poems by Drew Gardner

Drew Gardner

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

I Am San Francisco

A.D. Winans

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

The Language of Bebop: Syncopated Sounds and Rhythms in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

Nicole Henares

ginsberg-orlovsky-stephenson

Passing Through: Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky in Copenhagen, January 1983

Gregory Stephenson

Big Sur film - Kerouac

Jack Kerouac – “Big Sur” Movie Trailer

Denise Enck

The Rebirth of the Author in On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Rebirth of the Author in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Eric V. Patterson

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

the seasons 8 (detail) - hiromi suzuki

The seasons: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Raoul (detail) - Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Insignia: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

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Essays

Only Man in the World - Kirby Wright

The Only Man in the World

Kirby Wright

God and the Magical Potato Chips by Jennifer Jordan Schaller

God and the Magical Potato Chips by Jennifer Jordán Schaller

Jennifer Jordán Schaller

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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