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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

Writers on Writers on Writers I: Linda Chown on E.L. Doctorow on Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

Linda E. Chown

Notes on the Uses of the New Lyric You

Notes on the Uses of the New Lyric “You”

Tom Holmes

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Ada Lovelace

3 poems by Vivian Wagner

Vivian Wagner

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5 Poems by Colin Dodds

Colin Dodds

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Cosmopolitan Greetings by Allen Ginsberg

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

Doren Robbins

Kenneth Tindall - Great Heads

Interview with Kenneth Tindall: From Bellevue to Lynæs. An Interview by Lars Movin

Kenneth Tindall

Jack Kerouac’s “Strange Cemetery in Jamaica”

Paul Maher Jr.

Kerouac: On the Binge by Kenton Crowther

Book Review – Kenton Crowther’s Kerouac on the Binge

Denise Enck

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

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Eight pieces by C.R. Resetarits

C. R. Resetarits

Steve Dalachinsky mail art collage (detail)

Todd Swindell and Steve Dalachinsky: A Collage Mail Art Correspondence

Todd Swindell

More Art

Essays

Threshold_2 (detail) Tara K Shepersky

Conversations at Thresholds: a Contemplative Offering

Tara K. Shepersky

Las Meninas (detail) by Diego Vasquez

Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994

Sara Schaff

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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