“Audacity” Featured Artist Jeffrey Bryant
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome back poet Jeffrey Bryant of Los Angeles with two scintillating poems. “Terpsichore with her legs dangling over the balcony,” one of our “Audacity” poetry contest …
“Patterns” Featured Artist Lissa Staples
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome back Lissa Staples of Colorado with “Snow,” a masterful flash memoir/prose poem which we nominated for a Pushcart Prize. It recalls a vocal recital she …
Quote for Today: Robert M. Pirsig
That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don’t imitate what the teacher wants you get …
Quote for Today: Daniele Varé
The verb ‘to darn’ is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: ‘To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.’ But this definition does …
Quote for Today: e.e. cummings
As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as …
Imitating Nature: Green Cacti of Lina Cofán
Nature is a great source of inspiration for creatives of all types. Lina Cofán takes a whimsical look at cacti. Lina Cofán was working as a performance and theater …
Echoes of Water: Drumming by Katherine McDaniel
Humans living in modern cities have access to medicine, food and abundance. Despite opportunities, why are many of us unfulfilled? A few years ago, Houston Grand Opera sponsored a magical program …
From Cave to Palace: Mocárabe in Architecture
Architecture is full of flowers, textures and patterns of nature. How do these recollections both soothe and impress the eye? We are accustomed to seeing stylized imitations of plant and …