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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

At the Intersection of Linguistics and Literary Criticism: Objectivist Methodology in the Creation of Metalanguage(s) in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s La Jalousie

Preston Taylor Stone

jack kerouac upper peninsula diary

The Jack Kerouac Upper Peninsula Diary by t. kilgore splake, reviewed

Denise Enck

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

bay wind / d.enck

Three poems by Clair Dunlap

Clair Dunlap

six

Two poems by Alexus Erin

Alexus Erin

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Elegy For My Beat Generation - poetry by Neeli Cherkovski

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

Yannis Livadas

Larry Keenan, Photographer

About photographer Larry Keenan

Denise Enck

Pete Winslow - Surrealist / Beat Poet

Pete Winslow, Beat/Surrealist Poet

Denise Enck

On the Road illustartion copyright Paul Rogers

David Handley interviews Paul Rogers about his work & the On the Road illustrations

David Handley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Chris Turnbull - maybe (detail)

Vispo by Chris Turnbull

Chris Turnbull

city by the sea - Ben Stainton

Collages by Ben Stainton

Ben Stainton

More Art

Essays

Aztek peak fire lookout - John Yohe / Edward Abbey

Aztec Summer

John Yohe

lake padden

Something About Rage and the Light Dying

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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