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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

Panic In The Rear-View Mirror: Exploring The Work of Richard Siken and Ann Gale

Rhienna Renee Guedry

Walt Whitman's Talbot Wilson Notebook page

Visionary Markings: Em Dashes and Ellipses in Walt Whitman’s “Talbot Wilson” Notebook

Tom Holmes

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

rift - d. raphael

Lift Off: Poems by Stephen Bett

Stephen Bett

Teresa K. Miller: poems from California Building

Teresa K. Miller

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac by Joerg Haeske

Review – Anywhere Road: Retracing Jack Kerouac, by Joerg Haeske

Denise Enck

The Buddhist Beat Poetics of Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel - Max Orsini

The Buddhist Beat Poetics of Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel by Max Orsini, reviewed by Marc Olmsted

Marc Olmsted

The Sea is My Brother - Jack Kerouac

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

Jade Leaf Willetts

Kerouac: On the Binge by Kenton Crowther

Book Review – Kenton Crowther’s Kerouac on the Binge

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Fabio Sassi - Lost Archive

Lost Archive

Fabio Sassi

Black and White (detail) - Janina Aza Karpinska collage

Four collages by Janina Aza Karpinska

Janina Aza Karpinska

More Art

Essays

Marlie Centawer

Subterranean Boy

Marlie Centawer

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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