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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

Heathcote Williams at 217a Westbourne Park Road (undated) – photo by Jay Jeff Jones

Remembering the Truth Dentist: Heathcote Williams by Jay Jeff Jones

Jay Jeff Jones

Carla Sofia Ferreira - Walt Whitman Laforgue

Frenchness Versus Frenchiness: Laforgue’s Translations and the “Wordly” Estate of Whitman

Carla Sofia Ferreira

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Two poems by Katherine Fallon

Katherine Fallon

zuanich two / image: d. enck

Three poems by Linda E. Chown

Linda E. Chown

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac notebooks

Are There Any Good Unpublished Kerouac Books Left?

Paul Maher Jr.

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

Before and After Desolation: Two Sojourns by Jack Kerouac at Seattle's Hotel Stevens

Before and After Desolation: Two Sojourns by Jack Kerouac at the Hotel Stevens

Gregory Stephenson

Bowles & I

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

Jasun Horsley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Blood Twister by Alec Clayton

Alec Clayton: Abstract Paintings from the Retrospective

Alec Clayton

‘weather reports’: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

Edward Albee Speaks

Edward Albee Speaks

Sparrow

Union Pacific / copyright http://foter.com/portfolio/slambo-4/

Hear That Lonesome Whistle

Jason Hardung

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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