Little Mirror is a critical archive & biannual journal of poetry dedicated to the edge of lyrical & inventive poetic thinking

Little Mirror is both a critical archive, which publishes critical prose on poetics via the online publication Refractions, as well as a biannual journal of poetry, which publishes 10-12 poets in both print and online in the spring and fall.

Little Mirror accepts essays & other critical work on a rolling basis as a way to accumulate an always-accessible, constantly growing reservoir of poetic knowledge, and publishes poetry we love on a small-scale limited edition print run which is also made available online.

Grey Matter Books / Hadley, MA
Unnameable Books / Turners Falls, MA
Amherst Books / Amherst, MA
Antidote Books / Brattleboro, VT

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Poems, like mirrors, reflect reality back at us—sometimes distorted, oblique, sometimes clear, defined, but always an extension of the real.

We are interested in poetry and poetics that siphon the written word into a reflective/refractive surface, catching light off of knowledge and recapitulating that light into image through sound and syntax.

The poem is a little mirror—a compact portal into imagined space, a landscape both in and out of time.

  • Hunter Larson

    EDITOR

    Hunter Larson is a poet from the Midwest currently living in western Massachusetts. He was the winner of the Poetry Project’s Fifth Annual Brannan Prize, and has an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst. You can read his work in b l u s h, Copenhagen, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Tagvverk, and Works & Days.

  • Allie McKean

    EDITOR

    Allie McKean is a poet in the MFA for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She works for the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and teaches college composition. Her chapbook Gutter Ball (2024) is out from Distance No Object.

  • Jennifer Valdies

    EDITOR

    Jennifer Valdies is a poet from California currently living in Western Massachusetts. Her work can be found in Annulet: a journal of poetics, b l u s h, FENCE, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.