Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallness that I am. Against the daily death the …
Quote for Today: Milan Kundera
Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colorful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles …
Featured Artist: Charles Elliot
Synkroniciti is proud to feature poet Charles Elliott in our newest issue. “L.A. Neighbors,” which won our spring contest, is a wistful look at how modern people live so close …
Quote for Today: Suzy Kassem
When gorillas smell danger, they run around and call out to the rest of the primates in the jungle to warn them something evil is coming. And when one …
Quote for Today: Hunter S. Thompson
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Alexander
It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #17 from Wuhan, China, via NOWNESS
Day 17: The Globe-trotting Travel Series returns to Wuhan, China, the first city to go on lockdown for Covid-19, with this short film directed by Fanqing and Yurui Chen for …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #9: My Boyfriend Died of Covid-19, Wuhan, China via The Atlantic
Day 9 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series is a heart-rending story from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak, which occurred during the weeks surrounding Chinese New Year. A young …
Quote for Today: Annie Proulx
Dangerous and indifferent ground: against its fixed mass the tragedies of people count for nothing although the signs of misadventure are everywhere. No past slaughter nor cruelty, no accident nor …
40 days of poetry: Day 28: At the Temple of Sinawava by Katherine McDaniel
Day 28: This is a poem I wrote after visiting Zion National Park in the glorious state of Utah. It’s about a place, eerie and beautiful, called the Temple of …