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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

Rosamund Lehmann

Aching for Meaning: The Work of Novelist Rosamond Lehmann

Kathryn Hummel

Complete Fiction Bruno Schulz

Ten Favorite Books List Contributed by Little

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Two poems by Katherine Fallon

Katherine Fallon

recall / credit: em

Four poems by Allan Graubard: For Steve Dalachinsky, Ira Cohen, and Ronnie Burk

Allan Graubard

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Howard Hart and Raymond Foye, by T. Walden

Remembering poet Howard Hart

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Elegy For My Beat Generation - poetry by Neeli Cherkovski

Neeli Cherkovski’s Elegy For My Beat Generation, reviewed by Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas

Kerouac Gide featured image

Kerouac and An American Marriage

Paul Maher Jr.

In honor of Jack’s birthday: 4 Kerouac videos

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More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Joost de Jonge

Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest

Joost de Jonge

Black and White (detail) - Janina Aza Karpinska collage

Four collages by Janina Aza Karpinska

Janina Aza Karpinska

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Essays

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

essays in the face of uncertainties

rob mclennan

the skagit trail / credit: em

Convergence

Etan Nechin

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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