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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

Empty Mirror - 20 years

On Empty Mirror’s First Twenty Years

Denise Enck

Walt Whitman 200th birthday: essays and poems

Walt Whitman at 200: Essays and Poems

Empty Mirror

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Kerouac / Bukowski / Jack Leaf Willetts

Two poems by Jack Leaf Willetts

Jade Leaf Willetts

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6 poems by Bradford Middleton

Bradford Middleton

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Kirby Doyle poet

Remembering Poet Kirby Doyle

Michael McClure

Juan Arabia - Jack Kerouac

Beatnik / Kerouac and Rock ‘n Roll: Two essays by Juan Arabia

Juan Arabia

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (12)

Empty Mirror

Tristessa by Jack Kerouac, book cover

Book Review — Tristessa by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Horse Latitudes by Chris Wilson

Book Review – Horse Latitudes by Chris Wilson

Denise Enck

Calcutta: Photography by Buku Sarkar

Calcutta: Photographs by Buku Sarkar

Buku Sarkar

More Art

Essays

Edward Albee Speaks

Edward Albee Speaks

Sparrow

Sara Coleridge

My Coleridge: On Five Poems by Sara Coleridge

Stephanie Limb

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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