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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

Walt Whitman's Talbot Wilson Notebook page

Visionary Markings: Em Dashes and Ellipses in Walt Whitman’s “Talbot Wilson” Notebook

Tom Holmes

Readability Versus Creativity: On Susan Howe and Reading Poetry

Leticia del Toro

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Addisonia / 1902

Three poems by Elizabeth Threadgill

Elizabeth Threadgill

Current

birthday by William Bortz

William Bortz

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac and Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison and Jack Kerouac

Jim Cherry

Who Was Sinclair Beiles? Essays

Book Review – Who was Sinclair Beiles?

Denise Enck

Robert Creeley: Ted Joans, Primary Poet

Robert Creeley

Kerouac notebooks

Are There Any Good Unpublished Kerouac Books Left?

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Behind the Scene 6 by hiromi suzuki

Behind the Scene: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

lawn portrait (detail) - collage by Jack Felice

Four collages by Jack Felice

Jack Felice

More Art

Essays

Lexington Avenue by Jeffrey Zeldman

Lexington Avenue

Buku Sarkar

Jenny Lynn

Jenny Lynn

Lloyd Bond

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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