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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

jack kerouac upper peninsula diary

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

Denise Enck

Was Roosevelt Reciting Poetry?

Was Roosevelt Reciting Poetry?: The Need for a New Prosody

Dustin Junkert

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

cobblestones

Two Poems by Alessandra Bava

Alessandra Bava

september 80 / image: d.enck

Three poems by Edgar Rincón Luna, translated by Toshiya Kamei

Edgar Rincón Luna and Toshiya Kamei

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Carl Solomon - Mishaps, Perhaps

Two Songs for Samson: An Invective Poem for Carl Solomon

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

Free Beer: Kicks & Truth with Jack Kerouac by Cliff Anderson

Review – Free Beer: Kicks and Truth with Jack Kerouac by Cliff Anderson

Denise Enck

Moving Towards the Light: the Triumph of Spirituality in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

Moving Towards the Light: The Triumph of Spirituality in the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg

Jessica Clark

Some Kind of Dharma 1 (detail) - Steve Paul

Some Kind of Dharma: Photographs

Steve Paul

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Self Portrait )detail) - Tom Melsen

Eight paintings by Tom Melsen

Tom Melsen

donkeys find an opening (detail) - Jill Emery

Workings: Paintings by Jill Emery

Jill Emery

More Art

Essays

Sara Coleridge

My Coleridge: On Five Poems by Sara Coleridge

Stephanie Limb

Marlie Centawer - a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

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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