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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

Artificial Paradises by Charles Baudelaire

Ten Favorite Books List Contributed by Josechu C.

Top Ten List Contributor

Chaucer and the Art of the Grift

Chaucer and the Art of the Grift

K. A. Laity

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Four poems by Sam Silva

Sam Silva

Allen Ginsberg by Larry Keenan. Robert Lowell by Elsa Dorfman. Both copyright by their respective creators

Ginsberg and Lowell

Jim Bennett

More Poetry

Beat Generation

A.D. Winans & Jack Micheline in 1996

A.D. Winans Remembers Jack Micheline

A.D. Winans

Some Kind of Dharma 1 (detail) - Steve Paul

Some Kind of Dharma: Photographs

Steve Paul

29 Russell St., 1999, by Joshua Medsker

Neal and Carolyn Cassady’s house at 29 Russell St., San Francisco

Josh Medsker

Kerouac Gide featured image

Kerouac and An American Marriage

Paul Maher Jr.

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

The Crowd (detail) by Yongshin Cho

The Drift of Desire: An Interview with Yongshin Cho

Bill Wolak

House Cat, Abandoned Planet Bookstore, San Francisco, 2000

A. D. Winans: 11 Photographs

A.D. Winans

More Art

Essays

Only Man in the World - Kirby Wright

The Only Man in the World

Kirby Wright

d nolan jefferson

They Saved Me from Myself by D. Nolan Jefferson

D. Nolan Jefferson

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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