What is poetry to you? Sometimes it’s violent drunken theater but these days it’s more about categorizing impressions.

Time, Myth and Matter: Essays on the Natures and Narratives of Reality is a collection of five essays tracing the relationships between different theories and events in the history of science and technology and various aspects of mythology, psychology, philosophy, (meta)physics and mysticism…

It escapes me. The first time I saw the face of Alice Prin… but I remember the feeling it gave me. It was a feeling that remains with me to this day. She had evoked something in me…

With the invention of the word processor, you had the opportunity to sit at home and type correspondence, create a zine or even write a book. Your fingers and wrists would be saved from the heavy work of those typewriter keys…

Scent is everything. We find scent in the books we read, in our coffee cups, on the flesh of our lovers and in the perfume we wear. Imagine if we could put all this together and be the sensual avant-garde woman we always wanted to be. Enter: JOUISSANCE…

Cassie’s work is a cauldron of shapes and dreams, loops and echoes lurking in liminal spaces. She writes sentences that melt on the tongue like acid. It sends you into this beautiful and surreal world…

Anaïs Nin returned to Morocco in the summer of 1969, after her first trip thirty-three years earlier.  In volume six of the Diary, Nin writes of the Swedish writer and poet Artur Lundkvist, who, while interviewing her for radio informed her of how he and his wife were staying in a hotel in Agadir at the time of the devastating earthquake in 1960…

Woman's role in creation should be parallel to her role in life. I don't mean the good earth. I mean the bad earth too, the demon, the instincts, the storms of nature. Tragedies, conflicts, mysteries are personal. Man fabricated a detachment which became fatal. Woman must not fabricate…

Nin wears black lace, a swishing taffeta and is ‘sparkling’. When her husband joins her later, he is breathless and eager to take her home and make love to her. Lucia is dressed in white satin that she has bought on Grand Street for a few dollars. She says “The only romantic style left to us is the wedding dress.”…

Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone is an in-progress feature documentary about iconic Berkeley street poet Julia Vinograd, who emerged from the 1960’s Free Speech Movement fighting state oppression with bubbles instead of bricks…

Based on Anaïs Nin's essay The Artist as a Magician (found in her book A Woman Speaks, edited by Evelyn Hinz), the following text aims to create a dialogue between the past and the present, to bring light into the magic realm…

I have always looked inward. I was called “thoughtful” and some would say I was always “living in my head”, often portrayed as a negative trait. As an adult I see this very differently now. I see that others were afraid of their own minds and projected that fear onto me…

When someone describes their work as a meditation on (insert subject here), we expect a slow, quiet meander through thought, theory and maybe the odd jam recipe…

Self-publishing has a bad reputation. Those who see self-publishing as an opportunity to create and share art are slowly dismantling the old-fashioned notion that self-publishing is a failure on the artist's part for not being good enough…

Jeanne is on a quest for pleasure. In her “memory palace” there is a plethora of images and descriptions, all of which contain her encounters with men. The men she picks up from the streets of Paris…