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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

A Thank You to Joyce Carol Oates

Joys and Ticks: A Thank You to Joyce Carol Oates

Sarah Kennedy

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

San Francisco Chinatown courtesy Roger 4336 http://www.flickr.com/photos/24736216@N07/4061824394/

Jack Kerouac Eats an Eggroll by Andrea Bates

Andrea Bates

Detroit, Airport

Todd Clouser

More Poetry

Beat Generation

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

Junk Nightmares

Lee Watkins

Kerouac books - French

The sardonic pilgrimage of Jack Kerouac

Yannis Livadas

photo by Bruno Cervera / Unsplash

Blowing: Poetry Meets Music in the Writing of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

borders (detail) by Chris Turnbull

borders

Chris Turnbull

No Way Out (detail) by Nathalie Tierce

Memory of Place: 8 paintings by Nathalie Tierce

Nathalie Tierce

More Art

Essays

White Jesus -- Todd Clouser

White Jesus – A reflection on summer camp and Charlottesville

Todd Clouser

Panic Drapes the Look of the World: Literary Treatment for Anxiety in an Uncertain Age

Emily Sinclair

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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