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Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

On solitude, clarity, and the world as it withdraws.

POEM: What Durkheim Dreams About

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: What Durkheim Dreams About

“What Durkheim Dreams About” is a poem I wrote while taking a sociology class and having to read excerpts from Durkheim’s Suicide. I disliked his approach to life and wrote this poem inspired by that, as sort of a subversion and way to try to empathize with what he was saying.

POEM: Five Poems by Sreelekha Chatterjee

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: Five Poems by Sreelekha Chatterjee

My mind experiences an emotional barrenness, resembling an empty terrace. An empty seat is forever there, indicating an absence, perhaps a spiritual emptiness.

Beauty and the Grotesque: How Art Speaks to the Self

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

Beauty and the Grotesque: How Art Speaks to the Self

Great art can help us experience our most fundamental humanity.

A Chance to Make It

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

A Chance to Make It

Cosmic re-enactment in the path of Ars Regia.

POEM: Corpuscules in Corners

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: Corpuscules in Corners

I want to work back to that intuition I had of the infinity of the self— that this world is bursting at its seams and margins with the divine. Is coming home to oneself like turning from ashes and ashes to dust in corners?

Towards a Glass Menagerie: Mourning in Joan Didion and Walter Benjamin

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

Towards a Glass Menagerie: Mourning in Joan Didion and Walter Benjamin

The journalism of Joan Didion has an askant attitude towards the world. It is as if it has, the result of some sort of carelessness, accidentally fallen out of time and lies there as refuse on the floor waiting for it to be all over.

POEM: 4 Poems by Barbara Siegel Carlson

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: 4 Poems by Barbara Siegel Carlson

The natural world teaches lessons about human life and its expansion into the spiritual and metaphysical. Winter branches and onions become metaphors for larger truths. Art and music are also inspirations to deeper understanding.

POEM: Vocational

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: Vocational

"Vocational" is a micro-narrative that explores the depth of memory particularly through the lens of religion. This poem hopes to have achieved that religion and the spiritual life permeates every choice and is able to be arrived back to after a lapse, while also grappling with the middle.

POEM: Ode to the Rug on My Living Room Floor

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

POEM: Ode to the Rug on My Living Room Floor

An intimate look at new and old love, with inherited memories and objects giving life to new ones in nuanced but familiar ways. The poem, rich in texture and sound, allows the reader to situate themselves in the love of once-new things, now washed in the fondness and grief of time passed.

On Descartes and Certainty

Issue #1 Blue Winter (Aug 2025)

On Descartes and Certainty

An essay about Cartesian certainty and its role in global scepticism. It is argued that we should reject his views: the condition of certainty imposes on knowledge is too strong to be acceptable to the point that it undermines itself and hence his rationalist project is ultimately self-defeating.