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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

Jim Camp’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

William S Burroughs copyright Christiaan Tonnis http://www.flickr.com/photos/christiaan_tonnis/3678726329/

A William S. Burroughs top ten from Jed B. with his comments

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Burma. Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/focusc/6511325865

Three poems from Burma

J. H. Martin

Poems by Marcia Arrieta

Marcia Arrieta

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Gotham Book Mart - Evan P. Cordes

Being Michael Brownstein – Thomas Locicero

Thomas Locicero

Paul Bowles. Photo by Birgit Stephenson

Calling on Paul Bowles: Tangier, Morocco, August 1979

Gregory Stephenson

Carl Solomon - Mishaps, Perhaps

Two Songs for Samson: An Invective Poem for Carl Solomon

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

Tristessa by Jack Kerouac, book cover

Book Review — Tristessa by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg

Nixon, Kennedy, and Brooks Brothers: Robert Rauschenberg’s Monogram, 1955-59

Max King Cap

Eastern Seaboard (detail) - Andrea Burgay

Mining the Ruins: Andrea Burgay

Andrea Burgay

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Essays

The Seed

The Seed

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

Panic Drapes the Look of the World: Literary Treatment for Anxiety in an Uncertain Age

Emily Sinclair

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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