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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

jack kerouac upper peninsula diary

The Jack Kerouac Upper Peninsula Diary by t. kilgore splake, reviewed

Denise Enck

Courtney Zoffness interview - Brian DiNuzzo

Talking writing with award-winning author Courtney Zoffness

Courtney Zoffness and Brian DiNuzzo

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Scudder Pond in Early Spring - Denise Enck

4 spring poems

Sam Silva

Huntington Pier / Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bmh4you/84188300/ b r e n t

Four Poems by George Moore

George Moore

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr. considers Kerouac’s Haunted Life

Paul Maher Jr.

La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

Why Kerouac? Rick Dale

Why Kerouac?

Rick Dale

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.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Charleston (detail) - Moses Hawk painting

4 paintings by Moses Hawk

Moses Hawk

Five Pieces by Rose Knapp

Rose Knapp

More Art

Essays

Dearly Beloved, Part II: Growing up in Bohemian 1950s San Francisco

Nanette Jordan

20 east / credit: de

Are Hungry Ghosts Just Ghosts with Borderline Personality Disorder?

Courtney Cook

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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