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

Agustín Guambo, Andean Nuclear Spring, translated by Carlos Moreno

Carlos Moreno, Translator of Agustín Guambo’s Andean Nuclear Spring, Interviewed by Clara B. Jones

Clara B. Jones

Jitterbug Pefume

Peter’s Top Ten Favorite Books

Top Ten List Contributor

More Essays and Interviews

Poetry

elevation - photo by empty mirror

The Muse is on the loose

Yannis Livadas

image: de/em

Two poems by Irène Mathieu

Irène Mathieu

More Poetry

Beat Generation

Mario Cesariny by Carlos Botelho

Remembering Surrealist Mario Cesariny

Denise Enck

ginsberg-orlovsky-stephenson

Passing Through: Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky in Copenhagen, January 1983

Gregory Stephenson

Allen Ginsberg HOWL

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

Teresa Conboy

Ted Joans rhinostopper art

Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (6)

Empty Mirror

More About the Beat Generation

Visual Art

Renunication, Mixed media on paper, 22x32, 2006

Meditations: Paintings by Kurt Rostek

Kurt Rostek

Fabio Sassi - Out of Tracks 4 (detail)

Out of Tracks

Fabio Sassi

More Art

Essays

photo by Yuxiang Zhang

Spot the Differences

Taylor Byas

The Accidental Monster: Salomé, Mom and Me

The Accidental Monster: Salomé, Mom and Me

Melissa Knox

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