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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

federico garcia lorca

Remembering Federico García Lorca

Steve Pelletier

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

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

drew gardner poems

Poems by Drew Gardner

Drew Gardner

Boundary Road - d.enck

Two poems by Jim Richards

Jim Richards

More Poetry

Beat Generation

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

Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's On the Road

Interview – Paul Maher Jr., author of Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Paul Maher Jr.

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs

Love and the Titanic: Notes on Last Words: The Final Journals of William Burroughs

Lee Watkins

ken kesey books

Remembering Ken Kesey

Jason Reott

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

visual poetry (detail) - nico vassilakis

Pre Word: ego is dead. Visual poetry by Nico Vassilakis

Nico Vassilakis

Warren J Cox - Homage to Bobbie Ann Mason (detail)

Three Literary-Themed Paintings by Warren J. Cox

Warren Cox

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Essays

The Baby in the Air

Max King Cap

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part III) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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