Each of these pieces pulls us into sharp-eyed focus, reminds us why we’re here & who we’re becoming. Best of luck to our nominees. Here’s to possibility.
Read MoreIn Issue II of our second opus, desire is holy & heavy as the still before the train comes. Moor us in the unquenchable. We want a begging to believe in.
Read MoreI’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.
Read MoreIssue XI lives on the currency of old speed & new dreams, & right at the moment when you think you’ve learned its dance, it dares you to circle back & look again.
Read MoreMay this book teach you, when the ache looms loud & large in your peripheral vision, to invite it inside & ask for its forgiveness.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreEvery future wears the name of a self you used to be. The body is a malleable thing here. Whatever you need, you can become it.
Read MoreIn Issue I of our second opus, show us what you’re running towards, or running from. Give us speed & surreality. Surprise us. Blur the borders. Make us look again.
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreIn this issue we look back on the years stolen or borrowed, hold our grief open & stand very still in the strain of song that washes from its depths.
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