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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

Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer censorship

“My Friend the Censor”: Henry Miller, Huntington Cairns, and Tropic of Cancer

Arthur Hoyle

Exit West: a novel by Mohsin Hamid

Freedom in the Physical and Digital City: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West

Ben Berman Ghan

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

1964-10

Ed Sanders Poems by Alan Catlin

Alan Catlin

Two poems by Jim Nawrocki

Jim Nawrocki

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Who Was Sinclair Beiles? Essays

Book Review – Who was Sinclair Beiles?

Denise Enck

Larry Keenan, Photographer

About photographer Larry Keenan

Denise Enck

boundary road, with blueberries

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

Eric V. Patterson

Kerouac: On the Binge by Kenton Crowther

Book Review – Kenton Crowther’s Kerouac on the Binge

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Ahh You Ahh Freedom Bliss (detail) - Michelle Firment Reid

Thought Notes From My Open Side: Mixed-Media Work by Michelle Firment Reid

Michelle Firment Reid

Sleeping on Earth's Bed (detail) - Cristina Querrer

Silvery Twines, Embracing: Eight Paintings by Cristina Querrer

Cristina Querrer

More Art

Essays

Photo credit: www.flickr.com/photos/zeroy/5673872877/ Roy Ubu http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ CC-NC-ND

Irishry

John O'Kane

eyes on 8 by Emilie Kneifel

eyes on / horizon by Emilie Kneifel

Emilie Kneifel

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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