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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

L - art by D. Enck

“I am a deserter” — Marcel Duchamp

Bobbi Lurie

A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas reads “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”

Empty Mirror

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Argentina / via http://www.freeimages.com/profile/mexikids

The Insides of Argentina

Todd Clouser

hammond guthrie poems and art

OP_OETICS and digital art by Hammond Guthrie

Hammond Guthrie

More Poetry

Beat Generation

AD Winans remembers Bob Kaufman

A.D. Winans Remembers Bob Kaufman

A.D. Winans

Free Beer: Kicks & Truth with Jack Kerouac by Cliff Anderson

Review – Free Beer: Kicks and Truth with Jack Kerouac by Cliff Anderson

Denise Enck

Elegy For My Beat Generation - poetry by Neeli Cherkovski

Neeli Cherkovski’s Elegy For My Beat Generation, reviewed by Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas

Marlie Centawer - a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

a toast to ti-jean in a liverpool gloom saloon

Marlie Centawer

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Ms. (detail) - Cassandra Keenan

Seven Portraits of Women

Cassandra Keenan

Sunset by Kalliope Amorphous

Glass Houses: Photography by Kalliope Amorphous

Kalliope Amorphous

More Art

Essays

Joseph Magnin dress salon

Sleevelessness: Growing Up in Midcentury San Francisco by Nanette Jordan

Nanette Jordan

skyview / credit: em

When Fear Sets In

Marina Flores

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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