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Half Mystic Radio, Season I, Episode III: Some Quiet Shipwreck

Half Mystic Radio, Season I, Episode III: Some Quiet Shipwreck

Featuring Caitlyn Siehl's poems "By the Water", "To the Bone", and "Flower Boy", and Jonathan Meur's song "Cities & Seas".

Radio, Music, LiteratureTopaz WintersNovember 12, 2018Caitlyn Siehl, Jonathan Meur

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

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.

From the Editor, Literature, MusicTopaz WintersAugust 21, 2018Adrienne Novy, eric tu, isabelle kenyon, j david ockunzzi, sakshi jolly, giveaway

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

"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.

Self-Portrait With Cardinal Wing & Mesabi Cherry (Adrienne Novy on Crowd Surfing With God)

Self-Portrait With Cardinal Wing & Mesabi Cherry (Adrienne Novy on Crowd Surfing With God)

You came so far & you still made it here, she says, & I am thinking of a migration of birds exhaling into feathers.

Literature, Music, Personal EssayGuestAugust 8, 2018bill moran, sun yung shin

Enter: Sound / On Reusing Music

Enter: Sound / On Reusing Music

If someone asks me to imagine the word forget, I think of walking to the outer dorms on a rainy day.

Music, Personal Essay, LiteratureHana WidermanAugust 3, 2018frank ocean, Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

Announcements, Literature, MusicTopaz WintersJune 21, 2018Adrienne Novy, bianca phipps, caitin stickels, Hanif Abdurraqib

"Again, darlings, again." (Melissa Atkinson Mercer on Knock)

"Again, darlings, again." (Melissa Atkinson Mercer on Knock)

The tongue is powerful—it is both body & voice, past & future, self & monster.

Literature, Music, Personal EssayGuestFebruary 20, 2018melissa atkinson mercer

"Mental illness, memory, and myth are not elements you can solve and walk away from." (An Interview with Melissa Atkinson Mercer)

"Mental illness, memory, and myth are not elements you can solve and walk away from." (An Interview with Melissa Atkinson Mercer)

I love the word knock—its single sonorous syllable, the way it functions as both a command and an invitation.

Interviews, Literature, MusicChristina ImFebruary 13, 2018melissa atkinson mercer

“There’s something distinct in my music that people like, and I’m discovering it along with them.” (An Interview with Shelby Merry)

“There’s something distinct in my music that people like, and I’m discovering it along with them.” (An Interview with Shelby Merry)

I think my reinvention this year isn’t so much to change, but to trust in what I’ve been doing and to take care of myself.

Interviews, Literature, MusicChristina ImJanuary 22, 2018shelby merry

"Millions of years after a star burns out, the light of memory remains." (Kevin Rabas on Saudade)

"Millions of years after a star burns out, the light of memory remains." (Kevin Rabas on Saudade)

A woman holds a box depicting a woman holding a box—and on backwards and inwards until the music stops.

Literature, Music, Personal EssayGuestNovember 11, 2016kevin rabas