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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

Infinite Jesting: On the Unbearable Lightness of Our Time

Infinite Jesting: On the Unbearable Lightness of Our Time

Carlos Cunha

photo via http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179931106

Charles Reznikoff’s “During the Second World War…” as Objectivist Ars Poetica

Chris Mustazza

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Poems by Marcia Arrieta

Marcia Arrieta

Ship (detail) by Carrie DeBacker

Little Spells: Poems by Maya Jewell Zeller

Maya Jewell Zeller

More Poetry

Beat Generation

photo credit: adjac

Heeding the Call of the Open Road

Kyrsten Bean

BEAT The Latter Days of the Beat Generation, A First-Hand Account - Andy Clausen

Beat: The Latter Days of the Beat Generation, A First-Hand Account by Andy Clausen

Marc Olmsted

Wordworth & Kerouac

Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence

William R. Soldan

The Road to Visions of Cody

The Road Toward Visions of Cody

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Burning Factory 1 - Sander Steins

Burning Factories: Art by Sander Steins

Sander Steins

Is Southern Art a Thing?: Thoughts from a Technically Southern Arts Writer

Sara Estes

More Art

Essays

International Times launch party flyer and debut issue / image credit: http://www.international-times.org.uk/ITarchive.htm

London 1966: I.T., the Camel, and a Song Named Me

Gloria Avner

My Father's Map - Jan Glazewski

My Father’s Map

Jan Glazewski

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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