as our name suggests, concerns the mythic poet who tried and failed to rescue his wife from Hades. In that regard, we seek out that which shatters like stained glass when you try to grasp it. Long, strange trips that only get stranger the deeper you go. Ever-unfurling tapestries of uneasy dreaming. Our reference points include American Gnosticism and Western Esotericism, Symbolism and Decadence, the Apollonian and the Dionysian, the Sacred and the Profane.

We’re anti-Modernists, in a sense: we believe art should return to its ritualistic roots, retrace its connection to the divine and the mystical like Plato theorizes in the Ion. And so what we want to publish does require some sense of antiquity, i.e. you won’t be seeing any cyberpunk or internetspeak in our issues. Seers and scrying instead of startups and Silicon Valley.

- noah rymer, associate editor

Orpheus

our enemy is dreamless sleep