NEW POETRY
Double Feature from Joshua Alan Sturgill: Anguish In This Flame & Mortal
Mark Mosley
When The Dying Are Unveiled
II: Battle of Six Feet
Upon Buying a Volume of Malory in Wyoming by Benjamin Rozonoyer
GHOST STORIES
In Parson Clench, H. D. Everett presents a struggle between two clergymen. The twist? One is living and the other is dead.
Inklings Festival 2021: The Walking Tour is now sold out. To register for the lectures and other events, visit the Eighth Day Institute.
This week, we begin the first installment in a short series of poetic meditations by Dr. Mark Mosley:
When The Dying Are Unveiled
(Four Poems of the Apocalypse)
I: Sick of Now
The Ancient Modern:
The Idolaters by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Forty is a mystical number. This week, we present the final installment to Phillip Neal Tippin’s poetic cycle.
Seed. Soil. Season:
Prayer and Germination by Joshua Alan Sturgill
MACHEN STUDIES
This month’s article concerns mysteries uncovered in the collecting of correspondence from the past.
NEW POETRY
What More From Earth? by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Drizzle in the Flint Hills by Linda Lobmeyer
The penultimate installment… The Pilgrimage: Part 39 by Phillip Neal Tippin
This week, we’ve published another fine trio of poems.
Hellenic Haiku by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Passing the Night by Mark Mosley
The Pilgrimage: Part 38 by Phillip Neal Tippin
Details from the upcoming Inklings Festival Schedule are now available. In addition to discussing our favorite authors, there will be ample opportunity to explore the world of good drink and excellent food. Register by visiting the Eighth Day Institute.
Photo by Tobias Radeskog
NEW POETRY
Ritual by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Mud in Your Eye by Linda Lobmeyer
The Pilgrimage: Part 37 by Phillip Neal Tippin
TELEGONOS: The new Tragic Drama is ready to ship.
GHOST STORIES & FAIRY TALES
This week, we’ve added THREE classic stories.
We are invited to a mystical trek In the Woods by the mysterious writer Amyas Northcote. With the encroachment of modernity, an old priest works to soothe the dead in Gertrude Atherton’s The Dead and the Countess.
The delightful classic, The Three Heads in the Well, comes from the collection, English Fairy Tales, by folklorist Joseph Jacobs.
NEW POETRY
This week, we’ve published five poems by as many poets.
Joshua Alan Sturgill: Anagogy
Benjamin Rozonoyer: Whitesun
Linda Lobmeyer: Acedia
Mark Mosely: Apostasy
Phillip Neal Tippin: The Pilgrimage, Part 36
Darkly Bright Press welcomes Linda Lobmeyer, a poet from Kansas. We’re pleased to share her poem Every Days, a gentle meditation on memory and experience.
NEW POETRY
The Pilgrimage: Part 35 by Phillip Neal Tippin
Benjamin Rozonoyer: Untitled (The tale gets told upstairs)
NOW AVAILABLE: TELEGONOS by Jonathan Golding
Telegonos: A Tragedy in Verse by Jonathan Golding
The new Five-Act Drama is now available for purchase.
When Telegonos, the son of Odysseus and the goddess Circe, sets out to seek his father’s land, disaster strikes and the wanderers are shipwrecked on a mysterious island. As dreams and omens gather around him, Telegonos must make the most harrowing decision of his young life. Told in poetic form, Telegonos offers a vision of the world of classical myth with allegorical overtones.
Read an interview with the author.
Inklings Festival: Registration and Schedule Now Available
Jonathan Golding is a poet, dramatist and essayist. Darkly Bright Press is pleased to publish the upcoming book: Telegonos: A Tragedy in Verse. The book will be available for purchase on Monday, August 9, 2021. This week, we offer a short conversation with its author.
Please tell us about your history and motives for becoming involved with drama. Which writers most influence you?
I was very involved in theater during my college years, both acting and directing. I was fortunate enough to work with many immensely talented people, including David Flaten at the University of La Verne and the late Georgij Paro, the head of the National Art Theater in Zagreb. There are many things that a performance can convey with immediacy that a text may not. However, I think Telegonos works both as a poetic text and a theatrical piece that could be mounted and performed.
NEW POETRY
Open by Joshua Alan Sturgill
Phillip Neal Tippin: The Pilgrimage: Part 34
Praise Him with Clashing Symbols by Jesse K. Butler
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