Halcyone Blog

Untitled, by Yigit Kerim Arslan

Posted on August 27, 2019

The one that will come at the end of the morning What was I told behind the shivering water, I listened by escaping from myself. (But I don’t know, why that is. I commit suicide every morning for this) the moon is getting lazy every day. He had a neck ache by the time. […]

Become a writer-in-residence at Black Mountain Press

Posted on August 19, 2019

Apply Now for a Free Working Vacation to Beautiful Asheville, NC https://thehalcyone.submittable.com/submit/144654/writer-and-artist-in-residence The Black Mountain Press is pleased to announce its new writer/artist in residence program. The residence takes place in our previous location which was a converted child care center. There is plenty of room to stretch out in this house with large fenced […]

The Cuckoo, by David Hopes

Posted on April 18, 2019

Cuckoo recommends herself to certain souls by reason of her homelife, which is none. Lays her eggs in others’ nests–famous for it– confident that her lummox progeny will triumph over whatever wren or finch was intended as the true inheritor. (The happy-go-lucky male lacks even this responsibility. He fucks and flies and is, therefore, a […]

It is Difficult to Tell the End from the Beginning, by Charlene Langfur

Posted on April 12, 2019

I have never been insistent on how to order Stretches of time or patches of narrative. I go with what I’ve got, as if order always finds its own level as the need requires. And as the roots of my garden plants survive the worst, living on long after they appear in need of help. […]

Lorenzo Dow under My Daylilies, by John Surowiecki

Posted on April 4, 2019

I. CRAZY DOW He was the most famous preacher of his time (his books had thousands more readers than this poem ever will). Before my garden was a garden, when it was just dirt and moss, it was saturated with the desperate piss of camp- meeting-goers, his followers and fools, filling our valley like a […]

Foldable Altar, by Jacqueline Berger

Posted on March 28, 2019

When the fisherman’s hand caught as he flung his net into the dark water, night fishing for herring, he tumbled overboard and didn’t know in the cold black which direction was up and which would drive him further into the deep. The body is saline as the sea, but our natural buoyancy apparently no help […]

10 Tips for Writers

Posted on February 8, 2019

Tip1: “ Read. Read everything you can lay hands on.” -TH White Tip 2: “Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.” — Zadie Smith Tip 3: “Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.” — Zadie Smith […]

Dust Won’t Catch Our Dreams, by DeWayne Barton (BLove)

Posted on August 21, 2018

Poetry Page from the Summer issue of the Halcyone DEWAYNE BARTON Dust Won’t Catch Our Dreams Searching and discovering harmony with the natural environment Is one of the draws, an anchor to most who visit this place Our past spirits remind the future No one can hide, no bank account too deep that can jeopardize […]

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