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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

Chaucer and the Art of the Grift

Chaucer and the Art of the Grift

K. A. Laity

Robin Coste Lewis - The Voyage of the Sable Venus

Robin Coste Lewis and A New Kind of New York

Alexa Doran

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Zen Moon

Moon Songs: two poems by Matthew Woodman

Matthew Woodman

New Poems by Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Mario Cesariny by Carlos Botelho

Remembering Surrealist Mario Cesariny

Denise Enck

The Stray Bullet - William S. Burroughs in Mexico

Review – The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico

Denise Enck

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

Love and the Titanic: Notes on Last Words: The Final Journals of William Burroughs

Lee Watkins

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (7)

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

EMMET GOWIN Edith, Chinoteague, Virginia, 1967 (detail)

Modern photographer Emmet Gowin

Leah Kelly

Landscape 1 - Magie Dominic

Four Landscapes (Through a Window) by Magie Dominic

Magie Dominic

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Essays

Dearly Beloved - Nanette Jordan

Dearly Beloved, Part I: Growing up in 1950s San Francisco

Nanette Jordan

daydream on the forest pond / credit: de

The Pointless Forest

Emily O'Neill

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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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