AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought
ARCHIVES: VOLUME 3
"Anyone possessing [a sense of possibility] does not say, for instance: Here this or that has happened, will happen, must happen. He uses his imagination and says: Here such and such might, should or ought to happen. And if he is told that something is the way it is, then he thinks: Well, it could probably just as easily be some other way. So the sense of possibility might be defined outright as the capacity to think how everything could 'just as easily' be, and to attach no more importance to what is than to what is not. It will be seen that the consequences of such a creative disposition may be remarkable, and unfortunately they not infrequently make the things that other people admire appear wrong and the things that other people prohibit permissible, or even make both appear a matter of indifference. Such possibilitarians live, it is said, within a finer web, a web of haze, imaginings, fantasy and the subjunctive mood. If children show this tendency it is vigorously driven out of them, and in their presence such people are referred to as crackbrains, dreamers, weaklings, know-alls, and carpers and cavillers."
- Robert Musil, "The Man Without Qualities"
Volume 3, Issue 4 (2018)
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POETRY: Tales Unsuitable for Children by Devon Ortega
POETRY: Wake Up (and other poems) by JayJay Conrad POETRY: Among the Men is April by Logo Wei POETRY (CONTEST WINNER): Black Roses by Osamase Ekhator POETRY: Meet Me Tonight on Metaphor Street by Vivek V. Narayan POETRY: Sweet (and other poems) by Melinda Giordano |
Volume 3, Issue 3 (2018)
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NOVELLA: Menage A Trois, With Horse by Don Dussault
PROSE POETRY: Blue Sky Language by Christien Gholson POETRY: Un Detective Viejo by Franco Strong PHILOSOPHICAL RUMINATION: The Black by Ben Colandrea |
Volume 3, Issue 2 (2018)
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POETRY: Pantoum of the Meat by Ouita Rogers
SHORT FICTION: The Cleansing by Linda Dennard POETRY: Shuffle by Debbie Fox POETRY (CONTEST WINNER): Did you fall or rise from the cloud of unknowing? by M. Ann Reed NOVELLA EXCERPT: The Philosopher and the Pornqueen by Omar Sabbagh POETRY (CONTEST WINNER): Kigali Memorial by Carlos Andrés Gómez |
Volume 3, Issue 1 (2018)
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SHORT FICTION (a journey in footnotes): Pointless Mr. Probst by Beatriz Seelaender
POETRY: Less' More by Twixt ESSAY: How to Write a Biography by Joanne B. Mulcahy SHORT FICTION: Protocol Nine-Nine-Nine-Nine by Kenneth Hanes |
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Every piece published in AZURE appears alongside a customized black & white sketch that is devised and executed by our in-house illustrator, Evgenia Barsheva.
Customized illustrations for all published pieces are provided by Evgenia Barsheva.