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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

Victor Serge by Douglas Penick

At Liberation’s Heart: A (Self) Portrait of Victor Serge

Douglas Penick

(detail) Bottle, Carafe, Jug and Lemons

Lemon Calls to Lemon: The Visual Poetics of D. H. Lawrence, Jack Spicer, and Robert Kroetsch

Ty Clever

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Padden mist / credit: em

Two poems by Faizan Syed

Faizan Syed

southcoast / credit: de

A Variable. A Choice. by Gervanna Gravity Stephens

Gervanna Gravity Stephens

More Poetry

Beat Generation

city lights books

A.D. Winans on A.D. Winans

A.D. Winans

Pete Winslow - Surrealist / Beat Poet

Pete Winslow, Beat/Surrealist Poet

Denise Enck

Tristessa by Jack Kerouac, book cover

Book Review — Tristessa by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

How Kerouac's haikus saved my life

How Kerouac’s haiku changed my life

Bridget McNulty

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Tony Rickaby - assemblage

The Way Home II – Assemblages by Michael Wilson

Michael Wilson

Konstruktion B (detail) - Kon Markogiannis collage

Four collages by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

More Art

Essays

Icarus / credit: de

Icarus Regrets Every Tired Muscle

Wm. Anthony Connolly

after the rains / credit: em

Flash Flood and Visitation

Brandon Noel

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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