X: Elegy | Silver-Tipped Swallow: "Debt Collector's Lullaby"

When reporters ask for the secret, you are good at hedging: hard work is a sweet way to say obsession. Pathology is prettier when masked in music.

Columns, Literature, Music, Personal EssayTopaz WintersJuly 17, 2022silver-tipped swallow

“I find joy in singing my dead to life just as often as I find ache.” (Anthony Thomas Lombardi on Elegy)

Elegy can be messy. Elegy is sometimes unhappy with itself, too. Elegy is regrinding the lens again & again & again. Elegy is a reconstruction of joy.

"Grief does not exist only in subtraction." (Geoff Anderson on Elegy)

Elegy is birthed from such discomfort, a speaker navigating a world that hurts precisely because of its horrible resemblance to the one left behind.

Music, Literature, Personal EssayGuestJuly 10, 2022Søren Kierkegaard

"An elegy is a story bigger than despair." (An Interview with Maria Chiara Piglione)

The oval and circular shapes speak of an ancient world, a world where everything is whispered to life by its surrounding details.

"To mourn is also to acknowledge the limitations of language." (Gavin Yuan Gao on Elegy)

Elegy is the séance we hold as we pray for a visitation from the ones we have lost. We invite them to haunt us. We sing to them, and listen for song in return.

Literature, Music, Personal EssayGuestJune 29, 2022Gavin Yuan Gao

X: Elegy | Uncomposed: "Shrine to July"

I was praying the only way I knew how. I was trying to build a boat, to take me through the waves of grief on your street, right up to your door.

Columns, Music, Literature, Personal EssayPaola BennetJune 23, 2022uncomposed

Preorders are Open for Issue X: Elegy

In 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.

From the Editor, & the Launch of Hazem Fahmy's Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo

This collection was born out of the search for something bigger than the silence & static. On Friday, I think we came close to finding it.

"I am learning to call things disruptive instead of radical." (An Interview With Hazem Fahmy)

I am at a point in my life where the question most on my mind isn’t what am I asking from a place, but rather what I owe a place I have made a home.

Literature, Music, InterviewsKate WilsonMarch 13, 2022Hazem Fahmy, Frank Ocean, Zaid Khaled, Wegz, Sfire, Sheikh Imam

Frank Haunts Me Across a Decade (Hazem Fahmy on Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo)

By 2020, Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo had become a kind of phantom; a project that haunted me, yet whose future seemed illusive.

Music, LiteratureGuestMarch 9, 2022Hazem Fahmy, Frank Ocean