“When you find other people who like to do what you like to do and have the same visions, you want to be with them. You feel like you’re doing something worthwhile.” – Emery Williams
The ANEW Artists’ Alliance Third Annual Group Show
The Taste of Memory
The liner notes of Jimmy Smith’s Home Cooking describe a certain song as a series of blue truths. And here we are, all exploring our blue truths. All of us turning to music and art and literature for comfort when those truths become too blue.
February Issue, 2024
All of the articles from the past month for people who like to savor their magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Letter from the Editor: February 2024
Some thoughts on a broken clock.
An Anchored Friendship
Listen to this neo-noir short story that features the Iowa State Police, a displaced bounty hunter, a broken farmer, and his local cop acquaintance caught in a Mexican stand-off in a gasoline-soaked corn field.
Magpies Mix Tape: Wha’ppen?
Wha, man? Wha’ppen?
Vietnam Travelogue
Pia De Girolamo shares a travelogue recounting observations and art from her trip to Vietnam.
Alexandria, The End of the Affair
“I sit on the wall and watch a fisherman wrangle his net; the sea is dark and a little choppy, and I feel an overwhelming sense of sadness.”
Female
Some thoughts on Female, a pre-code film starring Ruth Chatterton.
My Afro-kwea diary: #2
My Afro-kwea Journal, entry #2: The Death of Vivek Oji By Akwaeke Emezi
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