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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

Tangier

My meeting with Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1980

Mark Blickley

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake's Influence on Allen Ginsberg by Alexandre Ferrere

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake’s Influence on Allen Ginsberg

Alexandre Ferrere

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

downstairs

Three pieces for Beat poets

Jillian Moreno

On the Road at Moses Coulee / credit: denise enck

Anaphora: Four Approximations

Casimir Wojciech

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Sea is My Brother - Jack Kerouac

The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac, Reviewed by Jack Leaf Willetts

Jade Leaf Willetts

On the Road movie poster

The Official Kerouac “On the Road” Movie Trailer is Here!

Denise Enck

outsider 2

Kerouac and the Outsider – A Puzzle

Dave Moore

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Kombination 3 (detail) by Kon Markogiannis

Kombinations: Four collages by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

Fighting Chance (detail) - LIta Kenyon

All These Sensations: 11 artworks by Lita Kenyon

Lita Kenyon

More Art

Essays

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

Richard’s Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part II) 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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