I’m inclined to think life or thoughts or ideas aren’t a blur of movement so much as a collage of image and voice: layered, constant, revved, and singing.

From the Editor: Adrienne Novy's Crowd Surfing With God: 5 Year Anniversary Special Edition

May this book teach you, when the ache looms loud & large in your peripheral vision, to invite it inside & ask for its forgiveness.

From the Editor, Music, Announcements, LiteratureTopaz WintersDecember 18, 2023Adrienne Novy

From the Editor & Contest: Lucy Hannah Ryan’s You Make Yourself Another

Every note of this song of our making & remaking belongs to you.

From the Editor, Literature, MusicTopaz WintersApril 18, 2023Lucy Hannah Ryan

From the Editor: The Elegy Issue

If we are all the dead conversing with the dead, I like to think the language we use to bridge the space between us is called music.

From the Editor, & the Launch of Hazem Fahmy's Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo

This collection was born out of the search for something bigger than the silence & static. On Friday, I think we came close to finding it.

From the Editor: The Synaesthesia Issue

I am slow to reach for music these days, maybe because music doesn’t feel out of reach anymore.

From the Editor, Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersJuly 28, 2021

From the Editor: The Sforzando Issue

Nothing in this place has ever been abandoned. If we sound desperate, that’s only because we know what our hands can do.

"If the body remembers everything, she happened." From the Editor, Giveaway, & the Launch of Marie Conlan's Say Mother Say Hand

What a space we made for ourselves last night—& when I say space I hope you hear salvation. You’re the best love we know, dear songbirds.

From the Editor, Book Launch, & Giveaway: Sammie Downing's The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs

Step into this House with us. Warm your hands on the fire. We’ve been waiting for you for so long.

From the Editor, Announcements, Literature, Music, GatheringsTopaz WintersDecember 18, 2019Sammie Downing

From the Editor & Contest: Tamara Jobe's Hag

Here’s to the ugly & the marvellous, loud enough to reach the edge of night.

Announcements, From the Editor, Literature, MusicTopaz WintersAugust 24, 2019Tamara Jobe