"Nobody ever sees it coming, except for when they do." (Jessie Lynn McMains on Sforzando)

We said to the universe: Please drive faster. Said: Wait up, disaster! Maybe we have an inkling of what we’re summoning even as draw the circle on the floor.

Personal Essay, MusicGuestMay 26, 2020The World/Inferno Friendship Society, David Whyte, Leonard Cohen, Adam Fell, Ander Monson

Shining Out in the Wild Silence: Writing in the Space Between Poetry and Music

I find myself now more and more prolonging these moments of genrelessness: a few breaths in, filling my lungs with clarity.

Music, LiteratureAmrita ChakrabortySeptember 18, 2019Jamila Woods, David Berman, Mitski, Sufjan Stevens, St. Vincent, Pat Pattison, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Tupac, Patti Smith, Joni Mitchell

Singing While Rome Burns (A Selection of Music for the Apocalypse)

I’ve found a catharsis in musicians’ emotional responses to the strife in the world right now, and in their visions of what might spring from the ashes.

Selections, MusicAmrita ChakrabortyJuly 30, 2019Hozier, Mavis Staples, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, James Brown, Janelle Monáe, Cage the Elephant, Sufjan Stevens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bastille, Florence + the Machine, the 1975, Donald Trump, St. Vincent, Leonard Cohen, Richard Siken

Preorders are Open for Issue III: Nocturne

Something sharp & true shifts within us when we embrace darkness instead of shying away from it.

Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersApril 10, 2017Leonard Cohen, Maryse Meijer, Kristen Berger, Sophia Terazawa, Erica Bramham, Emily Blue, Lisa Heller