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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

Remembering and Jane Austen - Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Remembering and Jane

Nazli Karabiyikoglu

Kristin Garth The Meadow poetry

Kristin Garth on her new collection, The Meadow — an interview by Amy Suzanne

Kristin Garth and Amy Suzanne

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Allen Ginsberg by Larry Keenan. Robert Lowell by Elsa Dorfman. Both copyright by their respective creators

Ginsberg and Lowell

Jim Bennett

rift - d. raphael

Lift Off: Poems by Stephen Bett

Stephen Bett

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia book review

Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century by Gerald Nicosia, reviewed by Kevin Riordan

Kevin Riordan

Pete Winslow - Surrealist / Beat Poet

Pete Winslow, Beat/Surrealist Poet

Denise Enck

Allen Ginsberg Wait Til I'm Dead Uncollected Poems

Book Review — Wait Til I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

William Burroughs, portrait by Graziano Origa, pen & ink, 1997

Junk Nightmares

Lee Watkins

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Total Deals (detail) by Drew B. David

Visual Poetry by Drew B. David

Drew B. David

mustard jar (detail) - collage drawing by Lori Langille

Looking/Not Looking: nine contour drawing collages by Lori Langille

Lori Langille

More Art

Essays

The Seed

The Seed

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part V) 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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