Empty Mirror

a literary magazine

  • About
    • About Empty Mirror
    • Get in Touch
    • Support EM
    • Colophon
  • Submit
  • Contributors
  • Essays
  • On Literature
  • Poetry
  • Reviews
  • Art
  • Interviews
  • Beat
    • Beat Generation
    • Ted Joans Lives!
  • +
    • Fiction
    • Music & Film
    • News
    • On Writing
    • Book Collecting

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.

Click to read any of the pieces featured below, read more from the category, or refresh the page for a fresh selection!

On Literature

V - Pynchon

Top Ten Books List Contributed by John W.

Top Ten List Contributor

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

Joost de Jonge

Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest

Joost de Jonge and John Fuller

poem by Sam Silva

Pagan Days

Sam Silva

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Juan Arabia - Jack Kerouac

Beatnik / Kerouac and Rock ‘n Roll: Two essays by Juan Arabia

Juan Arabia

Jack Kerouac’s “Strange Cemetery in Jamaica”

Paul Maher Jr.

Some Kind of Dharma 1 (detail) - Steve Paul

Some Kind of Dharma: Photographs

Steve Paul

The Sea is My Brother - Jack Kerouac

The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac, Reviewed by Jack Leaf Willetts

Jade Leaf Willetts

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

9 collages by Magda Dudziak

Magda Dudziak

Juicy Satellite (detail) - collage by hiromi suzuki

Six collages by hiromi suzuki

hiromi suzuki

More Art

Essays

credit: Viktor Dukov / Unsplash

Birds, Caves, Time by Nels Hanson

Nels Hanson

God and the Magical Potato Chips by Jennifer Jordan Schaller

God and the Magical Potato Chips by Jennifer Jordán Schaller

Jennifer Jordán Schaller

More Essays

The EM newsletter

Receive fresh poetry, reviews, essays, art, and literary news every Wednesday!

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.

Subscribe Submissions Support

There’s more to read!

  • On Literature
  • Beat Generation
  • Visual Art and Visual Poetry
  • Poetry
© 2000–2026 D. Enck / Empty Mirror.
Copyright of all content remains with its authors.
Privacy Policy · Privacy Tools · FTC disclosures