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Announcing Half Mystic's Nominees for the 2020 Pushcart Prize

Announcing Half Mystic's Nominees for the 2020 Pushcart Prize

Thank goodness for art & thank goodness for you.

Announcements, Literature, MusicTopaz WintersOctober 9, 2019Chelsea Dingman, Diannely Antigua, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Dina Hardy, Rona Wang, Tamara Jobe

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

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

Circles

Circles

When I listen to Maggie Rogers’ “Falling Water,” I always hear I never loved you fully in the way I could so deeply, completely.

Music, Literature, Personal EssayHana WidermanSeptember 3, 2019Maggie Rogers, the Young Romans

From the Editor & Contest: Tamara Jobe's Hag

From the Editor & Contest: Tamara Jobe's Hag

Here’s to the ugly & the marvellous, loud enough to reach the edge of night.

Announcements, From the Editor, Literature, MusicTopaz WintersAugust 24, 2019Tamara Jobe

"I wanted to know the scent of new earth, to hold light in my hands, to be human as furiously as I could." (Tamara Jobe on Hag)

"I wanted to know the scent of new earth, to hold light in my hands, to be human as furiously as I could." (Tamara Jobe on Hag)

When I think of the word hag, I think of the greying light beyond the horizon before a storm. I think of possibility hanging heavy in the air.

Literature, Music, Personal EssayGuestAugust 19, 2019Tamara Jobe

"I find myself drawn to places where myth was once born." (An Interview With Tamara Jobe)

"I find myself drawn to places where myth was once born." (An Interview With Tamara Jobe)

What if we encountered our bodies the way they are and said, “this is good enough”?

Music, Literature, InterviewsKate WilsonAugust 14, 2019Elana Dykewomon, Tamara Jobe

VII: Aubade | Silver-Tipped Swallow: "Variations on Beginning"

VII: Aubade | Silver-Tipped Swallow: "Variations on Beginning"

Eyes open; sunlight pressing its tired hopeful nose against the horizon.

Music, Personal Essay, Columns, LiteratureTopaz WintersMay 12, 2019Bon Iver, e.e. cummings, silver-tipped swallow

"As birds sing to survive, although they don’t have to." (Maureen Evans on Aubade)

"As birds sing to survive, although they don’t have to." (Maureen Evans on Aubade)

Dawn is portentous as any moment.

Music, Personal Essay, LiteratureGuestApril 27, 2019Maureen Evans

Half Mystic Radio, Season I, Episode VIII: Without the Lead of Sunlight

Half Mystic Radio, Season I, Episode VIII: Without the Lead of Sunlight

Featuring Alvin Pang’s “Untitled”, “What It Is Like to Go Blind Slowly”, and “Humming (For Pooja)”, and Daniel Gallie’s “Coming Home”.

Literature, Music, RadioTopaz WintersApril 21, 2019Daniel Gallie, Alvin Pang

"The rhythm of these words gives me hope that moments of such precise beauty will always exist." (S.K. Grout on Aubade)

"The rhythm of these words gives me hope that moments of such precise beauty will always exist." (S.K. Grout on Aubade)

Aubades take place in liminal space; they are ephemeral and, like the perfect melody or the exquisite lyric, they are robust in the moment.

Literature, MusicGuestApril 16, 2019Taifa Faizullah, Ocean Vuong, John Donne, Radiohead, Mamamoo, Frank Ocean, Spiritualized