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

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Wankers, Burds, and Skag: Heteroglossia in Trainspotting

Stacey Mankoff

desolation angels

Christina C.’s Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Summer’s Onslaught Edging Into May

Sam Silva

skagit river

For David Moe

A.D. Winans

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Allen Ginsberg HOWL

Chorus of Poets Gather for Allen Ginsberg “Howl” Celebration (2005)

Teresa Conboy

railroad

Lonely? You better believe it.

Alan Griffey

On the Road - Jack Kerouac

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Eric D. Lehman

Aural Dialectics: On Allen Ginsberg’s Musical Rendition of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Chris Mustazza

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Magick 18 (detail) Visual poetry by Kon Markogiannis

Visual poetry by Kon Markogiannis

Kon Markogiannis

Mary's - Ice Cream by Dana Stirling

Mary’s: Photographs

Dana Stirling

More Art

Essays

Home (detail). Photo by Tara Shepersky.

Love Song for a River Bank

Tara K. Shepersky

skyview / credit: em

When Fear Sets In

Marina Flores

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