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.
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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".
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“Now the next movement begins. Now the music starts again.” (Sara Hovda on Interlude)
Now the music starts again, the ending morphs into an interlude morphs into new notes. Never a silence that stays.
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VI: Interlude | Searchlight Song: "Breathing Exercises"
The great pause in my life is the way I am constantly forgetting to breathe. As such, I must always remind myself.
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Columns, Music, Personal EssayElizabeth Ruth DeyroVic Fuentes, Pierce the Veil, Vincent van Gogh, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sylvia Plath, Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, Alex Gaskarth, Kellin Quinn, Chester Bennington, Gerard Way, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, searchlight song
Songs for the Interlude Issue (a selection)
A playlist of our fondest & most aching interludes, the music the HM team is spinning on repeat as we compile this issue.
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Music, SelectionsTopaz WintersBen Howard, M83, Dean Lewis, Graham Coxon, A Fine Frenzy, The Hush Sound, Perfume Genius, Bon Iver, The Young Romans, Moto Boy, Coldplay, Daughter, The Cranberries, Diet Cig, Florence + the Machine, Mitski
"Both movement and stillness. Both overture and opening. Both promise and abandonment." (Donna Vorreyer on Interlude)
So much of our lives are scheduled. We mourn the lack of interlude, lament the promising lull of nothing to do.
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Preorders Are Open for Issue VI: Interlude
Thank you for your support as we move into this tender liminal space, light & lingering in the miracle of breath.
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Coming to Light, Part II / An Updated Statement on the Allegations of the Past Two Weeks
We simply cannot ignore the testimony of the large number of people who have come forward to share their stories.
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“In order to discover truth, art has to push into unexplored territory.” (An Interview with Human Kitten)
Take a crucial idea, distill it down to its skeleton, and then just let the listener project their own flesh onto it.
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Half Mystic Radio, Season I, Episode I: Death Being An Easy Disease to Fake
Half Mystic Radio features one poet every fortnight performing their work, set to songs by independent musicians.
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