"We must remember that Icarus also flew, And that his soul flew with him above the jagged rocks."

-excerpt from Issue 1, Demigod Enjoys a Beach Read, Noah Soltau

“Martyrdom doesn’t suit me. I do not worship at the altar of destruction, but I’ve been known to strike a match or two.”

-Excerpt from Lady Lazarus by Emma Conlon, Great Myths and Tragedies of the Human Existence

“The tragedies echo - a chorus of fallen stars"

—Excerpt from Echoes of the Eternal by Suraj Kumar, Great Myths and Tragedies of Human Existence

"I come from my mother: Genius, made of lavender. I come from my father: Comic, built from rain. And yet I have dissolved at their collision"

-excerpt from Issue I, Homesong, by Ann Sproul

"I confess I have wasted daylight
in dreams that should have been left
to night. Luminance squandered in words
unheard by anyone but you and me.
I hoarded all the twenty minutes’s that could
have made a month of Sundays."

-Excerpt from Issue I, Waste of Daylight, by Dani Salvadori

"...and rivers never reverse
—but the ground can shift..."

-Excerpt from Issue I, American Tragedy by Candice M. Kelsey

“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”

― Jonathan Gottschall

Art is resistance against conformity.

"...you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Just a lil Jan. 6 poem of mine for today—from issue 1 @thecovemag.bsky.social

“I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

A reminder to go read Issue I: Great Myths and Tragedies of the Human Existence through the linktree. Featuring over 50 writers, poets, and artists from around the world!

Patiently waiting for the poets, writers and artists to find us...