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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

Courtney Zoffness interview - Brian DiNuzzo

Talking writing with award-winning author Courtney Zoffness

Courtney Zoffness and Brian DiNuzzo

Beatitude by Larry Closs

Book review: Beatitude, a novel by Larry Closs

Denise Enck

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Photo by Robert Wilson. Used by permission.

Notes on Three Lost Poems by Gregory Corso

Gregory Stephenson

san juan / image: de

3 poems by Cooper Wilhelm

Cooper Wilhelm

More Poetry

Beat Generation

kerouac on the road scroll fragment

Cut-Up (The Stolen Scroll)

Bill Ectric

goodbye, ted joans - jack foley

Jack Foley: Goodbye, Ted Joans

Jack Foley

The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation

The Intersection of Buddhism and the Beat Generation

Sean Negus

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

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Patient Clouds - BIll Wolak

Collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

More Art

Essays

20 east / credit: de

Are Hungry Ghosts Just Ghosts with Borderline Personality Disorder?

Courtney Cook

Body Bereft of Fitton Farm - Justine Fitton

Body Bereft of Fitton Farm

Justine Fitton

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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