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Channel: Features

Life Cycle of a Shadow

By
  • Daniel Ausema
| 20 Feb 2023 Features Fiction, Story dark, fantasy, horror, liminal, weird

Properly speaking, shadows are not those places where the light is blocked. In the earliest reconstructed languages, those places have no names, though the proto-word for shadow does exist. Shadows were the beings that lived in those places of blocked light. Through the corruption of time, they have lent their name to their native homes, been subsumed by them, been forgotten.

Monsieur Flaubert Is Not a Writer

By
  • Brian George
| 17 Feb 2023 Features Essays art, counter-culture, criticism, culture, diy, humor, literature, writing

With his first book recently published, essayist, poet, and artist Brian George reflects on the bizarre and often humorous ways that great works of the past were received by their contemporary critics, and how changes in the cultural landscape over the last few centuries—but especially since his coming of age in the Boston poetry and punk scenes of the late 1970s—have profoundly altered the ways we read, receive, and understand new works.

"Oceanic Mask" (painting by Brian George)

Masks of Origin—an attempted Review

By
  • Maía
| 22 Nov 2022 Features Books, Reviews Mythos, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), book-review, experimental

I opened Brian George’s physically beautiful Masks of Origin—adorned with three-and-a-fraction of his own electric geometric red-green gargoyles, to find myself “reading,” if one might call it that, the whole book nearly straight-through that day, and the next…

Norman Lewis, title unknown (March in Washington), 1965, oil on canvas

The Self, As Ensemble, The Prose, Like Jazz—On Albert Murray’s South to a Very Old Place

Explicit By
  • Thomas Larson
| 27 May 2022 Features Books, Essays, Explicit, Reviews African-American literature, Albert Murray, Society (Multitudes), blues, civil rights, culture, identity, intellectual history, jazz, memoir, modernism, race, white supremacy

A paean to Albert Murray and his hybrid memoir/literary criticism masterpiece of 1971, South to a Very Old Place.

Your Box Problem

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 3 Mar 2022 Features Poetry AI, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), humor, meta, singularity, tech

“Think outside the box,” they say. What if your box is doing the thinking? Where does your thinking end and your box begin? How many boxes does it take to screw in a light bulb? The answer may surprise you.

Being Touched by the Beyond

By
  • George Ivanov Vasilev
| 18 Feb 2022 Features Essays death, dreams, intuition, tribute

From my very childhood, I’ve always been curious, interested, in a quest to find out what actually life is. What, in fact, is death? Where do we humans come from, and where do we go after death? Or, why we humans are on earth at all, and then die?

Author Interview with Isobel Granby

By
  • Mary Thaler
  • Isobel Granby
| 30 Dec 2021 Features Fiction, Interviews, Story Fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, inspiration, place, world-building

“The Second” was written for a speculative fiction writing workshop and very last-minute in its original form. I did the plotting and world-building on the fly, and basically the original idea was “what if the protagonist were trying to save their friend from a duel?”

The Music of the Spheres, Again Audible

By
  • Brian George
| 28 Dec 2021 Features Story 1st-person, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), cosmic, egypt, insects, metaphysical, paranormal, weird

There are moments when the world comes suddenly to a stop, when the ground withdraws its support, when a schism opens, into which one may or may not fall. The world then employs its archaic sleight-of-hand to remove whatever faith you may have placed in this event. The structure of projection has barely missed a beat, but the schism in your psyche has not actually been sealed…

18 Notes on Space

By
  • Heather Fester
| 19 Nov 2021 Features Poetry poetics, space, trauma

What does Space mean to you? Do you have enough of it? Too little, too much? How do you make space… for Space? This piece was composed for an evening of Poetic Alchemy held in Boulder, Colorado, in the spring of 2019.

Tempo – A Technology to Slow Time

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 13 Nov 2021 Features Essays consequences, science fiction, scifi, slow, technology, tempo, time

What if you could slow down time? In a distant, not-so-far-off future, humanity has gained the power to alter the localized flow of time at will, enabling new ways of experiencing the universe and operating in extreme environments. Here is an account of the scientific speculation that went into the concept of tempo control in my upcoming novel Plenum: The First Book of Deo.

Artist Interview with Deniz Ozan-George

By
  • Mary Thaler
  • Deniz Ozan-George
| 25 Aug 2021 Features Audio, Interviews, Visual Art abstract, experimental, gallery

Metapsychosis editor Mary Thaler interviewed Deniz Ozan-George, an artist based in Boston, Massachussetts. Though she’s recently completed one portrait, Deniz considers herself first and foremost an abstract painter, lyrical, and expressionist.

Author Interview with Susan Evans

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 15 Jun 2021 Features Interviews, Poetry poetry

Susan Evans’s poem “Lucy” appeared on Metapsychosis website in Autumn 2020. During the following winter, we exchanged emails in which Susan told me about her creative process, her sources of inspiration, and what her hopes for the coming year.

Part of the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery, image from NASA

Star Gardening

By
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 24 May 2021 Features Essays Society (Multitudes), compost, cosmos, gardening, manipulating star structures, science fiction, star formation, stellar nurseries

Projecting human capability and knowledge into the far future, provided we learn to manage our own planet, it seems possible that humans might learn how to modify stars in ways suited to their future needs. Why might one modify stars? I can think of a …

Artist Interview with Marjorie Kaye

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 18 May 2021 Features Interviews Visual Art, cooperatives, fine art, nature

An artist is actually creating a world rather than just a stationary object. The artist is sailing through universal winds and transmitting truth. It really depends on the artist as to how this truth manifests and is revealed.

Making Mystery: An Interview with Andrew Antoniou

By
  • J.F. Martel
| 27 Apr 2021 Features Interviews, Visual Art Noetics (Mind/Spirit), contemporary art, culture, drawing, dreams, jung, media, symbols, theater

Reminiscent of the work William Blake, Max Beckmann, and Hieronymus Bosch—to say nothing of the latter’s medieval predecessors, Antoniou’s images find their singularity in the exploration of the imaginal encounter, the sacred drama.

I Take That Back

By
  • Yoav Ben Yosef
| 22 Jan 2021 Features Story anxiety, choice

It starts like this, the intercom buzzes. Nick, the reluctant pet cat, is faking obliviousness, turning around, padding over to the kitchen for a snack. His tail, way up in the air, offers me a clear view of his hypoallergenic pink behind—shorthand for open scorn. “Guess I’m getting it then,” I say, pushing back with my own attitude.

The Second

By
  • Isobel Granby
| 16 Dec 2020 Features Story friendship, leadership, loyalty, sf

Seconds — those appointed to negotiate and if necessary fill in for the principal fighters in duels conducted by pilots of the Polarin Aerial Fleet — were allowed only one kind of interference: to try and talk combatants out of their folly, or to watch as time ran out and they went to their deaths. This was thought to be a way of reducing the number of frivolous challenges. It had had virtually no effect.

A New World (Poems and Photos)

By
  • Andrea van de Loo
| 25 Nov 2020 Features Poetry Sri Aurobindo, snakes

Going inward / I see my grey sleek wolf’s belly / moving forward on long legs striding / free, clear, unassuming / my natural strength carrying me / into the clear space ahead.

Weekend Getaway

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| 20 Nov 2020 Features Fiction, Story black maria, chess, cookies, new orleans, reunion, short stories

The game gives us a satisfaction that life denies us.—Emanuel Lasker ∞ “Tea or coffee, Sir?” “Coffee. Black. No sugar.” I’m on the phone with a market researcher. I try to picture a pretty girl at the other end of the line, but it isn’t working. All I …

Medb: A Disappearance and Reappearance (excerpt)

By
  • Brigid Burke
| 13 Nov 2020 Features Fiction, Story divorce, gender roles, magic, marriage, occult, weird

I looked at him through the camera. “You have a secret.” His eyes widened. I continued. “It’s not something…bad…but you think it is…. Something about a confrontation with your father. And it has to do with…a female.”

cover image from Medb

Review: Medb, by Brigid Burke

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 13 Nov 2020 Features Books, Reviews

Medb is a novel that draws the reader incrementally toward the mysteries of the human psyche, on its way touching on gender roles, the power of the occult, and the pathologization of difference. It’s a winding, inward journey that begins, fittingly, at …

Studium Spiritus Sancti

By
  • Annie Blake
| 2 Nov 2020 Features Poetry

but i often underestimate my husband / for he pointed out that i actually said schizophrigid / i had a kitchen dresser which contained crockery i never used / over- solicitude is display mothering /

Repeaters of the String

By
  • James Geddis
| 28 Oct 2020 Features Story

Now is when you are alone, when you have nowhere to be, when promises to the world no longer apply. Nobody knows what happens now except you. This is your own personal history.

The Father Spirit

By
  • James Falconer
| 26 Oct 2020 Features Essays Noetics (Mind/Spirit), family, fatherhood, identity, time

I walk casually through the kitchen, preparing a cup of tea, as my gaze is drawn to two photographs placed side by side. I am struck by the resemblance between my young son and deceased father…

Gasp

By
  • Gale Acuff
| 19 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

What happened, Miss Hooker asked–she meant my shock–so I said, Well, please turn around and take a look at Jesus there and tell me what you see.

Synaptic Tides

By
  • Marjorie Kaye
| 14 Oct 2020 Features Visual Art Organic, abstract, color, paintings

Forms point upward or sideways from a centrifugal base, hunting and seeking. Tides of observation and transmission approach and recede, leaving visual patterns in their wake. Ancient symbols make their way across pathways of energy, co-existing with forms of nature; earth, sky and all types of elemental forms are born of essential vibration.

Four Poems

By
  • Patrick DeCarlos
| 12 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

The shrunken fighters, cheeks sunken and eyes Gibbous as praying mantis, like a god kept captive By some sick forest cult That provides sacrifice seasonally…

The Spiritual Barber

By
  • João Cerqueira
| 7 Oct 2020 Features Story

The Spiritual Barber had opened his salon a year earlier and it had been an instant success. Open Mondays to Saturdays, it attracted an ever-growing number of customers, who thought nothing of waiting several hours until it was their turn to be served. …

Lucy the Nun With the Green Socks

By
  • Susan Evans
| 5 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

“Lucy the nun with the green socks / saw me hugging the oak tree / that summer I / hibernated in Spartanburg.”

Anatolian Dreams

By
  • Diana Thoresen
| 5 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

“St Barbara, a poor white gloved icy ingénue, / Has long been a dusty piece of Black Forest wood // That grew out of the ashes of Sibylline books”

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