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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

Allen Ginsberg photo by Larry Keenan / Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg: A Story of Influences

Alexandre Ferrere

Susan Howe / Federalist 10 essay

Susan Howe’s Federalist 10: a literary approach to colonial America

Leticia del Toro

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

east of here / credit: de

Three poems by Mickee Cheung

Mickee Cheung

birds

The Woman on Ocean Boulevard

Kirby Wright

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Wordworth & Kerouac

Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence

William R. Soldan

Visions of Cody, a book of martyrdom

Yannis Livadas

Kerouac: On the Binge by Kenton Crowther

Book Review – Kenton Crowther’s Kerouac on the Binge

Denise Enck

Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Book Review — Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Jason Stoneking - Death to the Rebirth

Death to the Rebirth!

Jason Stoneking

hummingbird wings bloom in your eye sockets and every petal cradles your bones (a found poem from Lorca's Dream by former SF Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía)

Two collages with found poetry, by Alessandra Bava

Alessandra Bava

More Art

Essays

map and coffee / via unsplash

Becoming Jill Kerouac

Amelia Hruby

Mystery Forest - Denise Enck

The Poetry of Walking

Wendy Gist

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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