Preorders are Open for Issue IV: Grazioso

The grazioso issue is full of the rare kind of light that never drowned anything, the kind of light that knows only song.

Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersOctober 16, 2017

These pieces sing & swoop & soar with movement, & we’re so pleased to honour them with our 2018 nominations:

Honestly, I feel that with every song I write, I learn something new about myself.

To Trade a Throat for Song

Call this bridge, meeting place. Call it, mosque. Call it, and it will call back.

Lake Song

When night came, we were shepherded inside. Too many animals. Too many hungry trees.

Music, Personal EssayDanie ShokoohiSeptember 17, 2017

Home is a City in Your Mind

I stopped writing. Okay. Yes. But say instead, the world ended. Say instead, lobotomy.

Music, Personal EssayDanie ShokoohiSeptember 2, 2017

I want those who listen to be emotionally impacted, whether it’s positive or negative. That’s what art does.

A Sonatina for King

When I think of my piano, I always picture an open lid, the keys collecting a shallow pool of the yellow light.

Homecoming (a selection, a remembering)

My two weeks of solid travel begin at 5 AM on the train platform to Chicago.

And here we hold one more issue of Half Mystic Journal in our hands: a home true & unwavering in every shade of night.