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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

Susan Howe / Federalist 10 essay

Susan Howe’s Federalist 10: a literary approach to colonial America

Leticia del Toro

Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller Collage

Henry and Me

Steve Wheeler

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

southbound / credit: em

Five poems on the Beat Generation

Alan Catlin

Keeping the Darkness Out

Kirby Wright

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Why Kerouac? Rick Dale

Why Kerouac?

Rick Dale

JK - Jack Kerouac typewriter

October Ghost

Ashley Shelby

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake's Influence on Allen Ginsberg by Alexandre Ferrere

Visions, Symbols and Intertextuality: An Overview of William Blake’s Influence on Allen Ginsberg

Alexandre Ferrere

Barry Miles - Beat Hotel

Book Review – The Beat Hotel by Barry Miles

Hammond Guthrie

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

The Rift in Tiime (detail) - Rodica Miller

The Rift in Time: Paintings by Rodica Miller

Rodica Miller

Formulation of Human (detail)- Darrell Urban Black

Twelve artworks by Darrell Urban Black

Darrell Urban Black

More Art

Essays

How to Be Silent in German

How to be silent in German

Kasia van Schaik

The Seed

The Seed

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

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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