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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

Art has side effects, I said - Bobbi Lurie - Marcel Duchamp

“Art has side effects,” I said.

Bobbi Lurie

John Keats by Joseph Severn 1819

Negative Capability: Keats and Buddha

Alfred K. LaMotte

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

arbor trail / credit: em

The End of the World Through a Fish Bowl

Sam Silva

gramophone

Two poems by Benjamin Smith

Benjamin Smith

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Gloria Avner and David Gitin

Remembering poet David Gitin

Sam Vinicur

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (10)

Empty Mirror

an interview with Carolyn Cassady

For Beat’s Sake: An Interview with Carolyn Cassady

Jon Alan Carroll

On the Road movie poster

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

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

9 Bewildered by Neon Lips (detail)

Twelve collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

Room of a Writer - Elza Zijlstra

TrashWorks: Collages from beachtrash and vintage magazines

Elza Zijlstra

More Art

Essays

photo by Laura Johnson

Desert Alignment

Laura Johnson

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part VI) 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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