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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

Wordworth & Kerouac

Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence

William R. Soldan

Original image: Olivetti Lettera 32, c. 1975 by mpclemens / Foter.com / CC BY. Photoshopped greatly by Empty Mirror.

Typewriter Experiment #1: Getting to Know You

James Patrick

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

tree of love

Three poems by J. David

J.David

Street Flowers by Alexis Doyen

A Song Which the Artist Inspires: Poems

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Robert Creeley: Ted Joans, Primary Poet

Robert Creeley

Kerouac: Avatar for American Buddhism by Michael Amundsen

Jack Kerouac: Avatar of American Buddhism

Michael Amundsen

La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

Allen Ginsberg Wait Til I'm Dead Uncollected Poems

Book Review — Wait Til I’m Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg

Marc Olmsted

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Stepping out (detail) - collage by Gary Cummiskey

Eleven Collages by Gary Cummiskey

Gary Cummiskey

Paintings by Abstract Painter Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

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Essays

Jenny Lynn

Jenny Lynn

Lloyd Bond

Photo by Alina Daniker on Unsplash

No Place Like Home

Angela Mayorga

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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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