Argonaut To empty feels good, to purge interior of self, something warm gushing forth, a surge of possessiveness, of jealousy for what shapes my body could take, before my edges grew smudged. Any answer will erase us, I am not alone in this vanishing, how when I walk from the train to my college…
Neglecting the Noise: A Review of Elisa Grajeda-Urmston and Tamara Adams’ “Soundcheck: A Musician’s Journey in Song and Verse”
Elisa Grajeda-Urmston’s Soundcheck: A Musician’s Journey in Song and Verse (Jamii Books, 2018, with artwork by Tamara Adams) is written “for every girl who ever played a guitar.”
Cards on the Table with Gary Howell
Enikő Vághy: Hello, numinous community, and welcome to another round of Cards on the Table. Today, I have the joy of speaking with Gary Howell who has come highly recommended by our Founding EIC, Fox Frazier-Foley, and Director Emeritas of Digital Outreach, Saumya Arya Haas. Gary, it is a pleasure to speak with you. Would…
Transmigration: Poetry by Jeff Pearson
“Transmigration,” a poem by Jeff Pearson.
Step by Step: A Review of Mary Kovaleski Byrnes’ So Long the Sky
So Long the Sky by Mary Kovaleski Byrnes examines what it takes to make a life in a new place through the personas of Russian and Polish immigrants.
Bacchae: Poetry by Sage Curtis
it’s not like we came here to cause trouble…
Staff Picks for Spring Reading
Social justice is central to Agape’s mission, and we thought we’d share with you some books that have changed and challenged us.
Cards on the Table with Jezmina Von Thiele
Enikő Vághy interviews Jezmina Von Thiele about her spiritual practices, her go-to Tarot deck, and the intersection of Tarot and poetry.
She Spirals Again: A Review of Sarah Lilius’ GIRL
In Sarah Lilius’ GIRL (Dancing Girl Press, 2017), the girls carve out pieces of themselves in a world of harassers and violence, in a world of Trump.
How to Be Sad: Poetry by Risa Denenberg
How to Be Sad If you listen without language, you may hear my grandfather playing Brahms on the cello, grunting every now and then with the effort of an old man soon to die. He played for me that spring I lay sick with pneumonia. I was nine and lonely for my mothership, her planets…
An Ambiguous Utopia: Review of Leah Umansky’s “The Barbarous Century”
The advent of movements like Me Too, Black Lives Matter, the Never Again student efforts against gun violence, and others speak to inevitable and necessary backlashes against misogyny, inequality, corruption, and violence. These movements are reminders of the widening cracks between what’s long been tolerated (and in many cases accepted) and the reality of what…
Cards on the Table: Interview with Fatima Mbodj
Enikő Vághy interviews Fatima Mbodj about her practice of Tarot, how she identifies within the spiritual community, and what drew her to Tarot.
