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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

Andy Kaufman Still Alive?

Is Andy Kaufman Still Alive? The Evidence

Jack Bristow

Pablo Neruda and the Virtues of Laziness by Joseph Rodgers

Pablo Neruda and the Virtues of Laziness

Joseph Rodgers

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Poetry

St. Huncke / credit: de

St. Huncke

Jim Nawrocki

Merlin Flower - Rubbish (detail)

When there is nothing, there’s the cup of coffee

Merlin Flower

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac Gide featured image

Kerouac and An American Marriage

Paul Maher Jr.

Gregory Corso mug shot -- prison

Poetic Licence: The Crime and Hard Time of Gregory Corso, or A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Felon

Gregory Stephenson

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake's Influence on Allen Ginsberg by Alexandre Ferrere

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake’s Influence on Allen Ginsberg

Alexandre Ferrere

Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson

Translating the Counterculture: The Reception of the Beats in Turkey by Erik Mortenson, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

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Visual Art

painting (detail) by Ishay Rossano

5 paintings by Ishay Rossano

Ishay Rossano

Burger Burglar: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

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Essays

Marlie Centawer

Subterranean Boy

Marlie Centawer

All Night You Dream of Ice and In the Morning Wake to a Skiff of Snow

Maya Jewell Zeller

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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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