Blog — Half Mystic

Introducing The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs

Introducing The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs

We hope you’ll join us in stepping into a new fairytale. Welcome to the clearing—to the wildness—to The Family.

Literature, Music, AnnouncementsTopaz WintersOctober 18, 2019Sammie Downing

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

Grandmother's Song

Grandmother's Song

My grandmother always stands in the driveway until everyone has driven away. How many departing headlights have swept over her in the night?

Personal Essay, MusicHana WidermanSeptember 24, 2019

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

& I'll Cry If I Want To: A Selection of the Sad Girl in Music

& I'll Cry If I Want To: A Selection of the Sad Girl in Music

We all have our Sad Girl songs—the ones that hit right at the center of our biggest shames, our runny mascara nights, our whispers from the alleyway.

Art, Music, SelectionsLexi CovalsenSeptember 11, 2019Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lana Del Rey, Audrey Wollen, Lesley Gore, Marina and the Diamonds, Sky Ferreira, Lorde, SZA, Donna Tartt

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

"I turned the songwriting process into my diary at a time I was trying to develop the ability to forgive myself." (An Interview With Barroo)

"I turned the songwriting process into my diary at a time I was trying to develop the ability to forgive myself." (An Interview With Barroo)

I think of my work as being temporal by nature.

Film, Interviews, MusicKate WilsonAugust 6, 2019Monoprices, Barroo, kendall :3, Cate Wurtz, Clover & Sealife, June Lalonde, rabbit music, klslwsk