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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

Empty Mirror - 20 years

On Empty Mirror’s First Twenty Years

Denise Enck

At the Intersection of Linguistics and Literary Criticism: Objectivist Methodology in the Creation of Metalanguage(s) in Alain Robbe-Grillet’s La Jalousie

Preston Taylor Stone

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

footnotes from history — the debord variations

Colin Campbell Robinson

Two poems by Katherine Fallon

Katherine Fallon

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac

Dr. Sax by Jack Kerouac, reviewed by Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman

Cosmopolitan Greetings by Allen Ginsberg

Now What’s Wrong? Reflections on Allen Ginsberg’s Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems 1986-1992

Doren Robbins

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

Jack Kerouac’s Books

Empty Mirror

William Burroughs, portrait by Graziano Origa, pen & ink, 1997

Junk Nightmares

Lee Watkins

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Fierce Sonia

7 mixed-media works by Fierce Sonia

Fierce Sonia

Kathmandu (detail) by Carlyle Baker

Collages by Carlyle Baker

Carlyle Baker

More Art

Essays

drawing of man with guitar

Being There – Michelle Bracken

Michelle Bracken

Seizure - essay by Stephanie Andersen

Seizure

Stephanie Andersen

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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