We hope this book helps you listen to those knocks in the distance, that perhaps it inspires you to answer the door.

The tongue is powerful—it is both body & voice, past & future, self & monster.

I love the word knock—its single sonorous syllable, the way it functions as both a command and an invitation.

All the World Enthroned in Our Throats

My mother’s mother’s language is the music of canefields.

Music, Personal EssayGuestFebruary 11, 2018

Half Mystic Gives Back

If you donate $10 or more to any charity of your choice, we will offer you an editorial critique on your work.

Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersFebruary 8, 2018

MFA Application Survival (a selection)

Applying for an MFA is not a simple thing. It is a force of willpower. It is an Olympian battle.

Music, SelectionsDanie ShokoohiJanuary 29, 2018

I think my reinvention this year isn’t so much to change, but to trust in what I’ve been doing and to take care of myself.

Introducing Cadenza (&: Welcome to Knock)

Issue V & Knock are creations that hum with ineffable music in ways that startle us & each other.

Everything blurred & full of wonder, every song like a prayer, like a poem, like a ray of light, a creature caught mid-bloom.

Songbirds, join Half Mystic at our very first real life event on December 28th, 2017!