Date: 2004
"Shine on me baby, because it's raining in my heart."
preview | full record— Smith, Elliott (1969-2003)
Date: 2004
"Those final sounds, however, are nothing like the wind moving through the vacancy of a mind."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: January 25, 2005
"I'm staring out into that vacuum again / From the back porch of my mind / The only thing that's alive, I'm all there is."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: January 25, 2005
"And each morning she wakes / With a dream to describe / Something lovely that bloomed / In her beautiful mind."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)
Date: 2006
"None of them ever breathed / a word about the fact that this humming, / aromatic, acid flashback, pungent, tingly / fingered world is acted out differently / for each one of us by the puppet theatre / of our senses."
preview | full record— Gerstler, Amy (b. 1956)
Date: 2006
"Curses, outbursts / and distracting chants simmer all day / long in the Crock-Pots of our heads."
preview | full record— Gerstler, Amy (b. 1956)
Date: 2006
"If our thoughts / and feelings were soup or stew, would they taste / of bile when we're defeated and be flavored / faintly with grace on better days?"
preview | full record— Gerstler, Amy (b. 1956)
Date: 2008
"Oh Bryn, you see through the dark, / Right past the fireflies that sleep in my heart."
preview | full record— Koenig, Ezra (b. 1984) [Vampire Weekend]
Date: December 2009
"Like an oyster / That cloisters a spoil of pearls, / Untouched— // The heart that’s had / Enough / Stays shut."
preview | full record— Essbaum, Jill Alexander
Date: December 14, 2009
"That'll keep them brain-chained to their trees."
preview | full record— Wright, Franz (b.1953)