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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

Virginia Woolf & Edith Wharton -- Linda Chown Essay

Writers on Writers on Writers II: John Colopinto, “Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and A Case of Anxiety of Influence”

Linda E. Chown

Edward Field and partner Neil

Secret of the Masters: An Interview with Poet Edward Field

James Schwartz

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

curve / credit: de

Two poems by Lynne Schmidt

Lynne Schmidt

wall

Jazz and the Money Jungle

Todd Clouser

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Allen Ginsberg College Censorship - Pavan - Loretta Graceffo

Resisting the Thought Police: The Untold Story of Allen Ginsberg’s Stand Against College Censorship

Loretta Graceffo

A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Eric D. Lehman

ken kesey books

Remembering Ken Kesey

Jason Reott

Jack Kerouac - Library of America

An interview on Jack Kerouac and Library of America

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Eastern Seaboard (detail) - Andrea Burgay

Mining the Ruins: Andrea Burgay

Andrea Burgay

Unexpected As the Twist of a Kiss (detail) - collage by Bill Wolak

12 collages by Bill Wolak

Bill Wolak

More Art

Essays

Candy Darling on her Deathbed by Peter Hujar, used as cover photo for I Am a Bird Now / fair use

Candy Says, by Kaiya Gordon

Kaiya Gordon

Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

(Part V) Alison Winfield-Burns memoir

Alison Winfield Burns

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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