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

photo via http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179931106

Charles Reznikoff’s “During the Second World War…” as Objectivist Ars Poetica

Chris Mustazza

Henry David Thoreau and John Brown

The Sons of Anak: Henry David Thoreau and John Brown

Paul Maher Jr.

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

in the bois des rappes / image credit: dre

4 Poems by Larry Beckett

Larry Beckett

Jack Kerouac Alley flickr photo by Gary Soup shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license

A.D. Winans: Ten Poems

A.D. Winans

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac’s “Strange Cemetery in Jamaica”

Paul Maher Jr.

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

Chris Mustazza

Gloria Avner and David Gitin

Remembering poet David Gitin

Sam Vinicur

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

copyright Yoav Friedlander http://www.yoavfriedlander.com

A Form of View: Photography by Yoav Friedländer

Yoav Friedländer

mustard jar (detail) - collage drawing by Lori Langille

Looking/Not Looking: nine contour drawing collages by Lori Langille

Lori Langille

More Art

Essays

in the window / image by de from photo by milada vigerova

essays in the face of uncertainties

rob mclennan

Great Northern Railway logo / Joe Mabel

How to Die Like You Meant It

Jeff Beddow

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