A close encounter with a black widow spider triggers a spiritual opening and a points to a possible solution to the existential problem of suffering.
Mary Thaler
Editor/Organizer of
The Saucer: A Record from the Outside
A poem, like a language, is an approximation, only a new one, and by virtue of being new and idiosyncratic, suggests and sometimes enables whole new structures of relation, new ways of engaging, dealing with, and navigating life.
The Kind of Tribe I Write About: An Interview with Mallory Smart of Maudlin House
I started thinking about how I spend so much of my days treating my art like a product and my personality as a brand. The thought that my small ideas would someday become commitments never occured to me when I was younger.
Ode To Mugwort
The first time I slept with you / in a Colorado Commune / you showed me how I had been sneaking around / neighborhoods in broad daylight / stealing light bulbs from people’s houses.
Threshold Mapping: Musing on a forgotten video game, Borges, and the worldmaking potential of AI
As I was reading William Egginton’s The Rigor of Angels, I began to think about thresholds. Or rather, I began to think about that liminal space in-between spaces, that no-space that allows both spaces to exist.
Museum
Mom is unhappy that it is just an old administration building, filled with stale air, empty offices, and cobwebby hallways. It’s nothing like the last abandoned mental hospital we got into.
Raw Clay For Self-Care: An Interview with Dominic Loise
In this interview, Dominic Loise discusses the 90s Chicago improv comedy scene, the mad genius of Del Close and Chris Farley, mental health awareness, and it’s connection to comedy.
An Epiphany of Spheres: The Paintings of Jane Hudson
These elements in tension—the speculative and the intuitive, the leap of vision and the act of making—came together to focus my painting as a spiritual practice as well as an aesthetic one.
Let’s Get Unsettled
Transmission 2025-02-28: Breaking thought patterns through cyberpunk pioneer R.U. Sirius’s insights, boundary-pushing jazz, and a new Writers’ Circle.
Writers' Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writers' Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writers' Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writers' Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writers' Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writers' Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writers' Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writers' Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writers' Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writer's Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writer's Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writer's Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writer's Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writer's Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writer's Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writer's Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writer's Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Writer's Circle
This group of writers meets twice a month to share their work, encourage each other, provide accountability in our writing practice, and share helpful feedback. All forms of writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, long forms) are welcome.
Bird Brains
Life abounds in unmeasured joy. We are flying things, crawling things, growing things, all breathing together in an unbroken circle. All know this, and it is embedded into our every cell.
Harmonics and Unfolding
The ancients spoke of a “music of the spheres,” by which all of reality vibrated in a vast harmonious frequency. Rhythm and unfolding are fundamental to metaphysical and social reality.
The New Fervor: An Interview with Kelvin Matheus Rosa
“Art can show a lot about a person that they weren’t even thinking about. I don’t think it’s more politically motivated than any other act in the world when you analyze it.”