Two Songs for Samson (an invective poem) for Carl Solomon Where goes your nose, Old Sam? How mighty a germ that nestled there Could cause so mighty a blow? Does a note so dissonant … [Read more...]
a literary magazine
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.
Recent features
- My Father’s Map
- On Waiting
- Seeing Las Meninas in Madrid, 1994
- Visual poems from 23 Bodhisattvas by Chris Stephenson
- Historical Punctum: Reading Natasha Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia and Native Guard Through the Lens of Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida
- Panic In The Rear-View Mirror: Exploring The Work of Richard Siken and Ann Gale
- “Art has side effects,” I said.
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