Look and Listen #13: Emi Mahmoud, How to Translate a Joke from Button Poetry
“How to Translate a Joke” is a perceptive poem about how humor and comedy can be a vehicle for prejudice and a means of enforcing the status quo. The remarkable …
Look and Listen #1: Our Journeys, Our Stories: In Our Own Words by Carolyn Elaine Miller
This is the first post of our new “Listen” series, about the journeys and contributions of people of color. Please take some time to drift through and meditate on this …
Featured Artist: Jonathan Yungkans
Say hello to Synkroniciti regular Jonathan Yungkans, who has three gorgeous poems in the new issue! Not the Smoothness, Not the Insane Clocks on the wall is a humorous, pop-culture …
Featured Artist: John Sheirer
Welcome author John Sheirer, a natural story-teller with a sparkling sense of humor. His short-story, Please Use Our Award-Winning Restrooms, is a delightfully playful tale of a burned-out writer approaching …
Featured Artist: Maureen McCarthy
Meet Maureen McCarthy, a wonderfully sassy, practical and introspective writer. You might remember her essay about her experience in Barcelona which was featured in our first issue. Maureen uses travel …
Globe-trotting Travel Series Day 10: Illustrator Varvara Fomina in Barcelona, Spain
Day 10 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series comes to us from Barcelona, Spain, where illustrator Varvara Fomina, originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, documents her lockdown experience with delightfully zany comics. …
40 days of poetry: Day 22: Beautification Campaign: Alex Lemon
Day 22: Enjoy this searingly funny satire of modern “sensibility” by Alex Lemon. This is Beautification Campaign. Who knows what might happen if people began to look past what advertising …
40 days of poetry: Day 9: The Third Week by Alec Solomita
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak around the globe, Synkroniciti will be posting a video of a poem every day for forty days. If you would like to participate, please …
Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
“I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, …
Quote for Today: Kate Douglas Wiggin
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard …