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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

In Watermelon Sugar

Bruce Hodder’s Ten Favourite Books

Bruce Hodder

Victor Serge by Douglas Penick

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

Douglas Penick

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

in the bois des rappes / image credit: dre

4 Poems by Larry Beckett

Larry Beckett

drew gardner poems

Poems by Drew Gardner

Drew Gardner

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Memory Babes: The Legends of Proust and Kerouac Mersiha Bruncevic

Memory Babes: The Legends of Proust and Kerouac

Mersiha Bruncevic

boundary road, with blueberries

Juxtaposition of Wor[l]ds: The Cultural and Literary Legacy of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac . . . reissued.

Empty Phantoms: Interviews and Encounters with Jack Kerouac is reissued

Paul Maher Jr.

Kerouac books - French

The sardonic pilgrimage of Jack Kerouac

Yannis Livadas

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Tony Rickaby - assemblage

The Way Home II – Assemblages by Michael Wilson

Michael Wilson

Mark Rothko, Untitled (detail)

Rothko’s Passage Through Fear and Trembling During the Seagram Murals

George Saitoh

More Art

Essays

drawing of man with guitar

Being There – Michelle Bracken

Michelle Bracken

skyview / credit: em

When Fear Sets In

Marina Flores

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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