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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

(detail) Bottle, Carafe, Jug and Lemons

Lemon Calls to Lemon: The Visual Poetics of D. H. Lawrence, Jack Spicer, and Robert Kroetsch

Ty Clever

Alex Preston Books

David Handley’s interview with Author Alex Preston

David Handley

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Ship (detail) by Carrie DeBacker

Little Spells: Poems by Maya Jewell Zeller

Maya Jewell Zeller

BOB KAUFMAN poet of ecstatic litany by Matt Hill

Matt Hill

More Poetry

Beat Generation

seymour krim

Beat Generation Writer Seymour Krim

Mark Cohen

Kerouac and Van Gogh -- Paul Maher Jr.

This is IT: Van Gogh and Kerouac

Paul Maher Jr.

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 Beats: A Short Introduction by David Sterritt

Review – The Beats: A Very Short Introduction by David Sterritt

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Somiers(detail) - collage by Rebeka Elizegi

Eleven collages by Rebeka Elizegi

Rebeka Elizegi

collage (detail) by allison anne

Nine collages by allison anne

allison anne

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Essays

Lexington Avenue by Jeffrey Zeldman

Lexington Avenue

Buku Sarkar

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in), Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Brooke Knisley

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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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