Half Mystic began as a grand experiment in championing work that lives between literature & song, hope & fight, horizon & sea.

Featuring Lyd Havens’ poems “Unruly” and “206 days later”, and Marla Bendini’s song “Blossom”.

Featuring Ben Togut’s poems “Saudade: Autumn”, “Elegy”, and “Coercion Aubade”, and Bennett Bay’s song “Gone”.

To Return (A Car Ride, A Selection)

How exactly do we hold our distance while also holding the truth of others’ shared humanity? How do we reach out and still remain safe?

Feat. Logan February’s “A Monument”, “The Gemini Man”, and “Husband Is the Loveliest Word”, and Love in the Ruins’ “Matt & Polly’s Suite”.

Oftentimes the body knows more than the heart can yet articulate.

Can you be raped without being turned forever into something beyond yourself?

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.

Introducing Synaesthesia

Welcome to synaesthesia: the blue undressing of voice; the song-scent wafting on wind; the tongues of memory & light.

Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersAugust 4, 2020

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.