Passage thru to yellow shores—
Coves resplendent/irregular/perfect/iridescent.
Descend.

A traveler on island plains awakes.
He will arise, un-nesting the new mystics—
a baptism in branches, unwavering, concealed, well made.

Borne high, the eagled, ancient hawk-rite
dances a glittered shaman’s trance/Icarus in a wax stance
constructing molten desperate magic for the meek men, Westward falling.

The candles lit/a world within a carbon tip (clean to burn/Immaculate).
Messengers carry the birth wo… Continue

I am preparing a new update for www.newmystics.com for middle of February. If any New Mystics Theatre Company members are interested in submitting for our Emerging Artists section, please visit the website submission page and send me your work!!

For current New Mystics artists and those not company members but members of the Community, please submit your work for the general section of the site!! We have some great new artists being included next month.

I'm sitting here in Fairmont, WV, reading pamphlets and statistics as part of my research for our new interactive workshops that we will be creating on domestic violence and dating violence, and also doing some copyediting of the journal Religious Education.

I came across this great definition of Social Justice in that journal that I wanted to share with all of you. You should be proud to be at the forefront of this movement:

"Social justice is a learned response fostered by progressive human… Continue

Prepositional Statement from the Author:
Dearest readers and subscribers,
The following letter was written by myself (Jonathan Pal), and written through external and internal inspiration. Love is wondrous and this letter may describe it in some ways. A large influence in this letter was Ludwig Van Beethoven and his love letters.

Without any further delay, here is my letter of goodbyes:

To m… Continue

The artistic staff at www.NewMystics.com is proud to present the following contributors:

Book 6 of Neighbors by ED BAKER

More poems from Tales of Anarchy by JEAN-MARIE AVRIL

Poems by first-time contributor MARY KASIMOR (welcome Mary!)

Our first Music section profile, for singer/songwriter CRAIG SONNENFELD (visit newmysticsreview.blogspot.com for reviews of Craig’s CDs)

We also have some new friends in the Links section, including author Yvonne Mason.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

After growing o… Continue