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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

Lord of the Rings

Eric D. Lehman’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

Kristin Garth The Meadow poetry

Kristin Garth on her new collection, The Meadow — an interview by Amy Suzanne

Kristin Garth and Amy Suzanne

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Jack Kerouac Alley flickr photo by Gary Soup shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license

A.D. Winans: Ten Poems

A.D. Winans

scudder pond, december / d.enck

Four poems translated from the Sanskrit by Brishti Guha

Brishti Guha

More Poetry

Beat Generation

David Amram / Ted Joans

David Amram: To Laura for Ted Joans

David Amram

Before and After Desolation: Two Sojourns by Jack Kerouac at Seattle's Hotel Stevens

Before and After Desolation: Two Sojourns by Jack Kerouac at the Hotel Stevens

Gregory Stephenson

The Haunted Life and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac

Kerouac Before the Jazz: a review of “The Haunted Life”

Jim Cherry

On the Road illustartion copyright Paul Rogers

David Handley interviews Paul Rogers about his work & the On the Road illustrations

David Handley

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

The place where someone's waiting for me (detail) : collage by hiromi suzuki

The place where someone’s waiting for me: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

Paul Hawkins -- Coach House 08 (detail)

from the Coach House Series: text collages by Paul Hawkins

Paul Hawkins

More Art

Essays

Home (detail). Photo by Tara Shepersky.

Love Song for a River Bank

Tara K. Shepersky

Dearly Beloved - Nanette Jordan

Dearly Beloved, Part I: Growing up in 1950s San Francisco

Nanette Jordan

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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