Betelgeuse Is Yad al-Jawza
By Poetry Issue 101
The sting took her away, past the moon, and she was nowa nuqta and now a vowel.
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By Poetry Issue 101
I was fire from which air is withheld, a charged element.
Read MoreThe Unfinished Cathedral
By Editorial Issue 101
The God who risked appearing in the flesh is the same God who leaves it to artists to bear witness.
Read MoreThe Anchoress
By Poetry Issue 101
If one comes to you saying ‘God said’ or ‘God speaks to me in secret,’ tread upon such words as a moth treads possible prey.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | Death, Change and Time: Bruce Cockburn
By Interview Issue 100
There was a kind of availability I had to learn in order to create a song like that. A capacity for a kind of ecstatic contact.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | Death, Change, and Time: Lia Chavez
By Interview Issue 100
I’m still learning to embrace the boundlessness of art and the trajectory that this implies.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | Death, Change, and Time: Barry Krammes
By Interview Issue 100
Life has been challenging, and occasionally blatantly difficult. The mysteries and complexities of this earthly sojourn continually rattle my brain. These days I am much more comfortable with my weaknesses than with my strengths.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | Death, Change, and Time: Steve Prince
By Interview Issue 100
Thirty is not as old as I thought it would be.
Read MoreLife After Thirty | Death, Change, and Time: Mohammed Ali
By Interview Issue 100
Most would dismiss this lone voice. You’ll always get one, they’d say. You can’t please everybody. But it bothered me.
Read MoreAfter Thirty | Death, Change, and Time: Natalie Settles
By Interview Issue 100
It’s possible I will look back on my thirties as my most transformative passage.
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