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Magpies Mix Tape: Where I’m From

By Magpies on February 18, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Robert S. Duncanson: Only Paint on His Mind

By Magpies on February 13, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

By Magpies on February 11, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Fiction: The Brothers

By Magpies on February 8, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Cinema as a Memory of Nature

By Magpies on February 5, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

February Issue, 2026

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Letter From the Editor: November Hopeful

By Magpies on December 1, 2022 • ( 3 Comments )

Letter from the editor, November.

Flash Fiction: You Can’t Tell

By Magpies on November 30, 2022 • ( 3 Comments )

“I found him on a cold day in a slow spring.” New flash fiction from Dez Walker

A Trio of Kitchen Sink Films

By Magpies on November 28, 2022 • ( 4 Comments )

Know your place: Some thoughts on three beautiful “kitchen sink” films.

Oh, Gratitude. A Litany

By Magpies on November 24, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

A thanks-giving.

Juan Luis Payá Guitart: A Fragile Feeling of Life

By Magpies on November 21, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Aren’t we surrounded by noise, loud music, excessive parties and gatherings, all so as not to listen to the silence, the inner silence of our loneliness?

On Having Enough, and a Recipe for Eggplant Wellington

By Magpies on November 18, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

Enough is just what we need, and all that we can ask. Enough money to live, enough food to eat, enough strength to carry on from day to day, and enough humor to enjoy it all. If nobody had too much, then everybody would have enough.

Draw Your Breakfast

By mlcotten13 on November 15, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

Suggestions to enhance your daily drawing experience–keep your notebook ready and your pen filled!

Robert Beck: Tip-Top Shoes

By Magpies on November 12, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

You can tell that things happen in this place because it feels like you’ve been there, and that’s the bones of an engaging narrative.  I call it a heartbeat.

Featured Artist: Angie Renfro

By Magpies on November 9, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

It speaks to the things that aren’t said. There’s a story that’s not being told, which adds a layer of interest to the pieces

Imaginary Jobs: A Superhero Called “The Dictionary”

By Magpies on November 6, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Do you ever find yourself thinking, “No, I don’t want to be part of a dynamic team in a fast-paced environment”? You’re not alone! But we are here to help! with an ongoing series of jobs you might not have realized existed.

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  • Alice Courtright
    • Triumphant Woe: Reimagining Climate Lament with Andromeda Turre
    • Taken in by Mercutio: on Carlos Gonzalez Olivo in Romeo & Juliet
    • Threshold
    • The Alchemy of Grief: Moon Horse and Sky
    • Work of the Restorer
  • Alimunday
    • Review: Northern Kin Festival 2023
    • Tom Titanic, A Cautionary Tale
  • amythatch
    • Featured Poet: Amy Thatcher
  • shane
    • Magpies Mix Tape: Soulin’
    • Magpie Mix Tape: Lack of Knowledge About Birds
  • BERNADETTE
    • Food: Eggplant Tian and memories of Provence
  • CaroleBristol
    • Is 20th century “classical” music really that difficult?
    • Magpie MixTape: Food & Music
  • Magpies
    • Magpies Mix Tape: Where I’m From
    • Robert S. Duncanson: Only Paint on His Mind
    • Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
    • Fiction: The Brothers
    • Cinema as a Memory of Nature
  • farinellimi
    • An Obscure Field of Vision
    • Jazz’n (Magpies MixTape)
    • Poesie del Silenzio/Poems of Silence: Michele Farinelli
  • federicaarmstrong
    • The Dowry: Federica Armstrong
  • Gershwin Wanneburg
    • Destiny’s stepchild
    • My Afro-kwea journal #3: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
    • My Afro-kwea diary: #2
    • My Afro-kwea diary: #1
    • A Letter to My Apologist
  • John Greenslade Skewes
    • Flash Fiction: Pond
  • johnwreford
    • Just When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In
    • Alexandria, The End of the Affair
    • In Search of a Smile
    • Ripples on the Nile
    • Was buying a house in Syria the brightest decision I ever made?
  • Karen Fitzgerald
    • Sense Making and Intuition
  • Keith Goldstein
    • Cones
    • Homage to Manhatta
  • knepp4350
    • Up Close and Everywhere
  • karl x hauser
    • The Irony of “Fever Dream”
    • Magpies Mix Tape: Big Ears
  • Leah Frances
    • Things Were Never Normal
  • lomogman
    • An Explanation of Sympathetic Magic: A Photo Essay
  • Brian McHenry
    • You cannot see them anymore, They are not there
  • Louise Miller
    • Blue Jays
  • Ralph Brown
    • My Pop Life: Pleasant Valley Sunday – The Monkees
    • My Pop Life: Don’t You Take It Too Bad – Guy Clark
    • My Pop Life: ‘The Emperor’ – Haydn
    • My Pop Life: A Salty Dog   –   Procol Harum
    • My Pop Life: The Right Thing to Do – Carly Simon
  • Marc Reed
    • Necropolis, a film by Marc Reed
    • Pennhurst: Abuse and Neglect
    • The Photography of Jack Delano
    • The Lost Art Exhibit
    • Film: The Mill Where Time Stood Still
  • mattroberts333
    • Grandma and Grandpa’s House
    • Bitter Boy
  • michaelcacker
    • All that is Solid
    • The Valley of the Moon Main Stem Project
  • mlcotten13
    • East African Lockdown Drawings: Bamboo and Marigolds
    • As Pretty as an Airport
    • Erosion 2023
    • Holland
    • Surveillance Puppy
  • Pia De Girolamo
    • Vietnam Travelogue
    • Artists’ Communities in the Digital Age
    • Ch-ch-ch-changes
    • January Thoughts: Why I Make Art
    • Garden
  • nogginsabroad
    • Fiction: Nipmuck Set
  • Panthersan
    • Decentering the electronic underground – The fearlessly experimental sound of Nyege Nyege Tapes
  • patrickjoust
    • Auto Anthropology
    • Chicken Castle
  • Peter Ydeen
    • Peter Ydeen: Commuter Motions
    • Peter Ydeen: Easton Nights
  • CB Adams
    • Of Legacy, Latitude, and Attitude
    • Bootheel Blues
  • Garner Behnke
    • The Mask
    • Three Poems.
  • Sharon VanStarkenburg
    • The Harnessed Rage of Paula Rego
    • Rosa Loy
    • Featured Artist: Sharon VanStarkenburg
  • simonquadrat
    • Pierrot by Watteau at the Louvre
  • Tracie Noles-Ross
    • Magpies Mix Tape: Undone in Sorrow
    • After the Apocalypse (Or My Grandmother was a Landscape)
  • Tony Perkins
    • Literature: Discovering Adrienne Rich
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    • James Guthrie’s A Hind’s Daughter at the National Gallery of Scotland
  • Donald Dow
    • Hardly a Day’s Journey
    • Wildflowers in the Fall
    • Starling Arcadia
  • yianisponos
    • Musical X-Rays: A Story of Improvisation and Rebellion

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