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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

Beatitude by Larry Closs

Book review: Beatitude, a novel by Larry Closs

Denise Enck

D.H. Lawrence's Pansies, Nettles, and More Pansies: A Jeremiad by Kenneth Pobo

D.H. Lawrence’s Pansies, Nettles, and More Pansies: A Jeremiad

Kenneth Pobo

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

in the bois des rappes / image credit: dre

4 Poems by Larry Beckett

Larry Beckett

Chuckanut rain / credit: de

Two poems by Amy Gong Liu

Amy Gong Liu

More Poetry

Beat Generation

The Rebirth of the Author in On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Rebirth of the Author in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

Eric V. Patterson

JK - Jack Kerouac typewriter

October Ghost

Ashley Shelby

David Amram, Ed Heflin & Joe Kerouac. © Ed Heflin, 2003

An Interview with David Amram: By Your Works Ye Shall Be Known

Ed Heflin

Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Book Review — First Thought: Conversations with Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Nothing (but) 3 / hiromi suzuki

Nothing (but)

hiromi suzuki

Folly and Fortune (detail) - Nathan Pietrykowski

Too Dee: Drawings by Nathan Pietrykowski

Nathan Pietrykowski

More Art

Essays

Sara Coleridge

My Coleridge: On Five Poems by Sara Coleridge

Stephanie Limb

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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