Look and Listen #30: Aniyah Smith, Healing
Healing is a poem by Aniyah Smith, a New York based poet from Washington, DC. She was the 2018 DC Youth Poet Laureate, 2018 DC Youth Slam Grand Slam Team …
Quote for Today: Octavio Paz
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. —Octavio Paz Image by adrian prieto cecilio from Pixabay
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 #12: Maya Angelou, We Wear the Mask
In honor of Juneteenth, Maya Angelou’s poem, “We Wear the Mask.” She was a masterful reader, dancing on the edge of emotion. May we all learn how to listen and …
Featured Artist: Janet Rogers
Meet Janet Rogers, a leading voice in the indigenous community and a marvelous poet, media artist and much more. It is a great honor to feature her video poem, Ego …
Featured Artist: Kuzhur Wilson
Kuzhur Wilson is a leading voice in modern Indian poetry and created the first blog for Malayalam poetry. After living as a journalist in Dubai for a decade, he returned …
Featured Artist: Yolanda Movsessian
Welcome back photographer, digital artist and poet Yolanda Movsessian, one of our Houston rockstars. Her poem Dicing onions by the stove at the old house or When life was …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #32: Calligraphy Artist Denis Brown, Dublin, Ireland
Day 32 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series features a fantastic multi-layered art project combining poetry, calligraphy, glass etching, film and animation by Denis Brown in Dublin, Ireland. Denis is a …
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 …
Globe-trotting Travel Series #30: If the World Was a Movie by Hannah Flores the Poet
Day 30 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series features a fantastic first film and video-poetry offering from a very talented American teenager, Hannah Flores the Poet, If the World Was a …