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

Wordworth & Kerouac

Wordsworth and the Beats: The Longevity of Influence

William R. Soldan

Infinite Jesting: On the Unbearable Lightness of Our Time

Infinite Jesting: On the Unbearable Lightness of Our Time

Carlos Cunha

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

Short Stack 2 - D. Raphael

6 Poems by Gloria Avner

Gloria Avner

ten mile / credit: d.e.

Three poems by Linda E. Chown

Linda E. Chown

More Poetry

Beat Generation

On the Road movie poster

The Official Kerouac “On the Road” Movie Trailer is Here!

Denise Enck

The Sea is My Brother - Jack Kerouac

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

Jade Leaf Willetts

photo by Bruno Cervera / Unsplash

Blowing: Poetry Meets Music in the Writing of the Beat Generation

Eric V. Patterson

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, reviewed by Eric D. Lehman

Eric D. Lehman

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

9 Collages by Laura J. Stein

Laura J. Stein

Yen Yen - Rainbow Stacks (detail) watercolor

Everything is Zero Calorie: Watercolors by Yen Yen

Yen Yen

More Art

Essays

Art has side effects, I said - Bobbi Lurie - Marcel Duchamp

“Art has side effects,” I said.

Bobbi Lurie

daydream on the forest pond / credit: de

The Pointless Forest

Emily O'Neill

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