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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

Rosamund Lehmann

Aching for Meaning: The Work of Novelist Rosamond Lehmann

Kathryn Hummel

Aldous Huxley's Dianetic Utopia

Aldous Huxley’s Dianetic Utopia

David Wills

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Four Poems by Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte

poem by Sam Silva

Pagan Days

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Seymour Wyse, Horace Mann School, 1940, courtesy of Dave Moore

Kerouac — “My really best friend…” an interview with Seymour Wyse by Dave Moore

Dave Moore

David Amram, Ed Heflin & Joe Kerouac. © Ed Heflin, 2003

An Interview with David Amram: By Your Works Ye Shall Be Known

Ed Heflin

Ted Joans Lives

Ted Joans Lives! Michael Hayward, Jake Lamar, Bernie Mindich, and Guy Pierre Buchholtzer

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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

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Say When (detail) - Lita Kenyon

Certain People by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

Claudio Parentela

8 New Collages by Claudio Parentela

Claudio Parentela

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Essays

Photo by Jesper Aggergaard on Unsplash

Deadlift, by Cindy Bradley

Cindy Bradley

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part VI) 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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