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 of a Nation, in the new issue, along...
View ArticleLook 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 value one another.
View ArticleLook 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 universality of the degradation of women...
View ArticleQuote 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
View ArticleLook 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 Champion, a member of the 2018 Louder Than a...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Jeannie E. Roberts
A warm welcome to photographer and poet Jeannie E. Roberts, whose delicate and atmospheric photography is accompanied by her deeply conscious poetry in a series called As If Labyrinth, Spider Web,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Carl Sandburg
– Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night. —Carl Sandburg, The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg – Image by My pictures are CC0. When...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Jonathan Yungkans
A shout out to our resident poet and keeper of intellectual musings and deep feels, Jonathan Yungkans! His poetry has been a feature of every Synkroniciti issue except for our first one-we hadn’t...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Kathleen A. Lawrence
Welcome Kathleen A. Lawrence, a delightful poet and wonderful collaborator! I am excited to feature Amelia, Lost and Found, which muses about the fate of explorer Amelia Earhart; A Wall of Peaches of...
View ArticleCall for Submissions: Poetry (Written and Video formats)
– Poets, Synkroniciti is seeking poetry on the theme of “hidden” for our sixth issue. The deadline is October 15, 2020, and the submission fee is $3. We accept both written poetry and video poetry....
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Shawna Ervin
Synkroniciti is excited to feature four poems by Shawna Ervin in the upcoming November 30th issue: Three Things, Bouquet, Labored and Memory. Each poem centers around a relationship and shared...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Emmanuel Ikuoye
Synkroniciti is overjoyed to welcome our first artist from the African continent, poet Emmanuel Ikuoye of Lagos, Nigeria! His poem Journey to Utopia addresses the flight of Africans to the West and...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Tor Hyams
Synkroniciti is excited to welcome poet Tor Hyams, with two striking pieces: Junior and The music the rain makes. The first is the story of a young man named Mahmoud growing up tough in Brooklyn; the...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Jonathan Yungkans
Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome back Jonathan Yungkans! We are featuring two new poems: Leviathan Morning, which speaks of the struggle of a whale in the ocean, recalling a brother...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Yolanda Movsessian
Synkroniciti is elated to welcome back Houston photographer, digital artist, poet and writer Yolanda Movsessian, with three evocative poem/digital art combinations: River God’s Daughter, Hidden Rain...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Root Yarden
Synkroniciti is pleased to welcome Israeli photographer, performance artist, dancer and poet Root Yarden. Lost and Found is a combination of photography and poetry that examines the roots of identity...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Misha Penton
Synkroniciti is ecstatic about featuring Misha Penton’s “conspiracy of beauty,” a short film and micro opera written specifically for our new “hidden” issue, due out next Monday! Misha and I have been...
View ArticleFeatured Artist: Lucia Huňady
Synkroniciti is thrilled to welcome poet and artist Lucia Huňady! Our upcoming issue, debuting Monday, will be featuring three of her poems in English translation: Snow White Will Come One Hour...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jane Hirshfield
Ten Windows records the desire to understand others’ poems I’ve felt transfixed and transformed by: “What is a good poem doing?” “How is it done?” “Why does it work?” I want to understand the piers of...
View Article“Wildflowers” by Courtney O’Banion Smith Wins Synkroniciti’s First Poetry...
The winner of Synkroniciti’s first poetry contest–and it was a VERY competitive field–is “Wildflowers” by Courtney O’Banion Smith of Houston, Texas, USA, which tells the story of a young woman...
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