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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

D.H. Lawrence's Pansies, Nettles, and More Pansies: A Jeremiad by Kenneth Pobo

D.H. Lawrence’s Pansies, Nettles, and More Pansies: A Jeremiad

Kenneth Pobo

jerusalem bible

Mark A.’s Top Ten Books List

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

roller / credit: de

Two poems from Stilled Somewhere Possible by Cheryl Pallant

Cheryl Pallant

Poems by Sam Silva

The Light Within the Darkness and two more poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Henri Cru in Greenwich Village, 1987. Photo courtesy of Henri Cru.

“The Old Maestro”: an interview with Kerouac friend Henri Cru by Dave Moore

Dave Moore

On the Road illustartion copyright Paul Rogers

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

David Handley

ted joans interview teducated

The Teducated Mouth: John Barbato interviews Ted Joans

Ted Joans

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

A.D. Winans Remembers Jack Micheline

A.D. Winans

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Ryoji Ikeda’s Continuum - photo copyright Leland Buck

Swimming in the river of bits: The digital meditation of Ryoji Ikeda’s Continuum

Leland Buck

Popcorn Clouds (detail), William Clarkson

Seven Cloud Paintings by William Clarkson

William Clarkson

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Essays

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part II) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

Photo by Ant Rozetsky on Unsplash / edited by Empty Mirror

Milkman by Anna Burns: a soundtrack to street harassment

Laura Eppinger

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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