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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

Gueorgui Konstantinov interview and poems

Love, Unforseen Poetry, and Other Radical Reforms: An interview with the Bulgarian poet Gueorgui Konstantinov

Bill Wolak and Gueorgui Konstantinov

REVENGE OF THE IMAGIST SOCIALIST POETRY

Revenge of the Imagist Socialist Poetry

Serkan Engin

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

BOB KAUFMAN poet of ecstatic litany by Matt Hill

Matt Hill

containers / credit: em

Broken Glosa: an alphabet book of post avant glosa by Stephen Bett

Stephen Bett

More Poetry

Beat Generation

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

The Road to Visions of Cody

The Road Toward Visions of Cody

Paul Maher Jr.

Bowles & I

Vast Regions from Nowhere: Paul Bowles, Unfathered Authors, Mother-Bonded Sons

Jasun Horsley

Big Sur - Kerouac

Prelude to Big Sur: Kerouac in Spring & Summer 1960

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Stepping out (detail) - collage by Gary Cummiskey

Eleven Collages by Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey

construction1 (detail) screenpainting by Shih Yun Yeo

Screenpaintings by Shih Yun Yeo

Shih Yun Yeo

More Art

Essays

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

Great Northern Railway logo / Joe Mabel

How to Die Like You Meant It

Jeff Beddow

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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