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

“My poems couldn’t save me from wanting to die.” (An Interview With Adrienne Novy)

I don’t know if I’m reaching backward in the anniversary edition so much as listening to my younger self reach forward.

“There exists a joy and hunger for more in that younger self.” (Adrienne Novy on Crowd Surfing With God: 5 Year Anniversary Special Edition)

That intensity is impossible to replicate as an adult, I think, because it reverts to nostalgia for us.

Music, Literature, Personal EssayGuestDecember 9, 2023Adrienne Novy, Hanif Abdurraqib

Introducing Crowd Surfing With God: 5 Year Anniversary Special Edition

This book is for you, yes—but more importantly, it’s for the things that tried to destroy you & failed. It’s for the past selves that live in you, still breathing, still breathing.

Announcements, Literature, MusicTopaz WintersOctober 18, 2023Adrienne Novy, Hanif Abdurraqib

Announcing Half Mystic's Nominees for the 2019 Pushcart Prize

We are proud to be a place to hold these gorgeous works of art & the even more gorgeous authors who’ve created them.

From the Editor & GIVEAWAY: Adrienne Novy's Crowd Surfing With God

If music has ever saved your life, in any way possible, please read this wonderful collection of poetry.

"This book is both a letter to my past self and written for young people." (Adrienne Novy on Crowd Surfing With God)

I hope my readers are able to embrace the awkward younger versions of themselves, and forgive those past selves.

Introducing Interlude, New Job Openings, & Crowd Surfing With God

Interlude: the keystrokes of transitory—the movement in the rest—the inhale before the storm.

From the Editor: The Cadenza Issue

Jazz in blue & grey, in light & cloud. Jazz like circadian rhythm, like cityscape dreaming, like still before the train comes.

Announcing the Submission Deadline for Issue V: Cadenza

The work you sent us this reading period was saxophone & city skyline, was blue-lit & dancing, was storm-filled & warm.