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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

Independence Day by Richard Ford

Linda Lenhoff’s Top Ten Books

Top Ten List Contributor

Andy Kaufman Still Alive?

Is Andy Kaufman Still Alive? The Evidence

Jack Bristow

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

wall

Jazz and the Money Jungle

Todd Clouser

‘weather reports’: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

More Poetry

Beat Generation

seymour krim

Beat Generation Writer Seymour Krim

Mark Cohen

boundary road, with blueberries

Juxtaposition of Wor[l]ds: The Cultural and Literary Legacy of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

OTR cover - https://www.flickr.com/photos/lindsaydeebunny/4502353209/

Jack Kerouac’s Books

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Ted Joans Lives!

Ted Joans Lives! A Tribute

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More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

my little girls dreams she is a spider 1 (detail) - collage by tim stuemke

my little girls dreams she is a spider: collages by Tim Stuemke

Tim Stuemke

Somiers(detail) - collage by Rebeka Elizegi

Eleven collages by Rebeka Elizegi

Rebeka Elizegi

More Art

Essays

Las Meninas (detail) by Diego Vasquez

Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994

Sara Schaff

in the window / image by de from photo by milada vigerova

essays in the face of uncertainties

rob mclennan

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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