Half Mystic Radio, Season II, Episode I: How Gold the Flecks of Gold
Feat. Logan February’s “A Monument”, “The Gemini Man”, and “Husband Is the Loveliest Word”, and Love in the Ruins’ “Matt & Polly’s Suite”.
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"Longing is an intensely human impulse, but it can come from an uneasy place." (An Interview With Emily Yacina)
Oftentimes the body knows more than the heart can yet articulate.
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I Spread Like Strawberries: Fiona Apple, Rape Stories, and Getting Free
Can you be raped without being turned forever into something beyond yourself?
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Finding Solace in Sade
Sade makes pain the centerpiece: showing us how bearing witness to the tragedy of history is a beautiful and necessary act in itself.
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Introducing Synaesthesia
Welcome to synaesthesia: the blue undressing of voice; the song-scent wafting on wind; the tongues of memory & light.
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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.
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From the Editor, Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersJessie Lynn McMains, Elizabeth Ruth Deyro, Alena Zeng, Peter Milne Greiner, Gale Acuff, Elijah Mann, Topaz Winters, C.A Scheherazade, Cindy Xin, Rodney Wilder, Matt Mitchell, Leela Chantrelle, The Haunt, Jonah Howell, Sophie Zhu, Jam Pascual, Hana Widerman, Love In the Ruins, Yejin Suh, Joan Pope
The Sforzando Letters (a selection)
I write, as Roethke says, "to solve all the leaps of light." I write to do with letters what Thelonious Monk did with piano keys.
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Music, SelectionsTopaz Winterslove letters, Blonde Redhead, Michelle Gurevich, Warpaint, Broadcast, Bomba y Plena, Muddy Waters, Elvis, The Reverend Al Green, W.C. Handy, The Bar-Kays, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, Theodore Roethke, William Faulkner, Shakira, John Coltrane, U2, Johann Sebastian Bach, Son de Mar, Fall Out Boy, Florence + the Machine, Elton John, Byron Janis, Big Thief, Sylvan Esso, Lucinda Williams, The Mountain Goats
VIII: Sforzando | Searchlight Song: "Storm Warning"
It’s a fool who believes she can drink down the sea, sing it serene and quiet. The storm screams us all apart eventually.
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VIII: Sforzando | Uncomposed: "To Memorialize Touch"
People ran to keep their bodies tame, searched for every secret before the leaving.
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Postponing Half Mystic Journal's Issue VIII: Sforzando
We don’t come to this decision lightly, & we believe the extra breathing room is truly necessary to publishing Issue VIII with care & intentionality.
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