A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
April Issue, 2025
Eternal life
A poem by Gershwin Wanneburg.
The Writing is on The Wall
Brassaï declares that the “bastard art of the streets of ill repute that does not even arouse our curiosity, so ephemeral that it is easily obliterated by bad weather or a coat of paint, nevertheless offers a criterion of worth. Its authority is absolute, overturning all the laboriously established canons of aesthetics”
Wendy Okeke’s Vision of Freedom
“Nigerian poet Wendy Okeke uses the dark recent past of political failure, youth angst, and government violence against its own citizens as a point of entrance in poems that resonate with sensuality, self-affirmation, and a continuous search for freedom.”
November Issue, 2024
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Destiny’s stepchild
A poem from South African poet and journalist poet Gershwin Wanneburg.
Taken in by Mercutio: on Carlos Gonzalez Olivo in Romeo & Juliet
From the moment Gonzalez made Mercutio real for me, I was inside the story, experiencing it as if for the first time. I was affronted: the cost of hate was too high, the sacrifice of youth beyond justifiable.
Threshold
Alice Courtright’s poem Threshold, inspired by Ugo Rondinone’s sculpture the sun and the moon, is balanced on the edge of so many things … night and day, memory and hope, wonder and knowledge, confusion and understanding. It captures a moment in her life and in the world.
The Cicada’s Cry: Matsuo Basho’s Summer Poems
Arthur Davis shares his reflections on some of Matsuo Basho’s summer poems.
Nursery Rhyme DETOURS
Some works from Calef Brown’s suite of poems in which the first words or lines are from traditional nursery rhymes, then they go off in different directions. Beautifully illustrated by Leo Espinosa.
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