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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

Robin Coste Lewis - The Voyage of the Sable Venus

Robin Coste Lewis and A New Kind of New York

Alexa Doran

Pablo Neruda and the Virtues of Laziness by Joseph Rodgers

Pablo Neruda and the Virtues of Laziness

Joseph Rodgers

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Illuminescence - Poem by John O'Kane

Illuminescence by John O’Kane

John O'Kane

the Douglas Fir at 850 years

Two poems by Carson Faust

Carson Faust

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kill Your Darlings Movie Trailer

Beat Generation film – Kill Your Darlings trailer released!

Empty Mirror News

Big Sur - Kerouac

Prelude to Big Sur: Kerouac in Spring & Summer 1960

Paul Maher Jr.

ginsberg-orlovsky-stephenson

Passing Through: Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky in Copenhagen, January 1983

Gregory Stephenson

Mario Cesariny by Carlos Botelho

Remembering Surrealist Mario Cesariny

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

construction1 (detail) screenpainting by Shih Yun Yeo

Screenpaintings by Shih Yun Yeo

Shih Yun Yeo

Doghouse (detail) by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Buckaroo, Desire, Doghouse, Cowgirl: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

More Art

Essays

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee - Richard's Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Richard’s Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee

Body Bereft of Fitton Farm - Justine Fitton

Body Bereft of Fitton Farm

Justine Fitton

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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