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\n⭕️ Magic Circle released it’s first artifact from inside the circle, get one today at: magic circle [dot] email [slash] store (p.s. it’s free)
\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/23/magic-circle-released-its-first.html","date_published":"2026-10-23T17:59:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-23 17:59","date_timestamp":1792778362,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99620914","content_html":"⭕️ Magic Circle is back!! Essays, interviews, advice, and who knows what else – goes out on Fridays. Mostly about connection, attention, and inner and outer lives. I’m roping some friends into the round table and very exicited for the first issues. Jump inside at magic circle (dot) email
\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/21/magic-circle-is-back-essays.html","date_published":"2026-10-21T15:12:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-21 15:12","date_timestamp":1792595521,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99500624","content_html":"I watched You Can See Everything this weekend and after some thought, I was both impressed and disturbed so I wrote a short critical piece on it. Contains spoilers and serious hot takes that I am willing to stand by!
\nRead → here | # Conspiracy as Art: You Can See Everything is a magic trick for a liar
\n\ncynthiacliff.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/19/i-watched-you-can-see.html","date_published":"2026-10-19T15:33:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-19 15:33","date_timestamp":1792424009,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99364437","content_html":"Either Holmes is a mastermind who lies, or she is a victim. The audience gets stuck there. But those are not the only two options. Calling her a mastermind hands her a larger-than-life power the film needs in order to feel high-stakes. That is the spirit of conspiracy, and it is the spirit of Trump. A...
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Sunday! Spooky readin’ with others. 🧟♀️❤️
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcynthiacliff.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fc6124336-5445-4691-a509-352d409d361e.png\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/16/sunday-spooky-readin-with-others.html","date_published":"2026-10-16T23:00:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-16 23:00","date_timestamp":1792191648,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99355931","content_html":"🌬️ A former student of mine (Hi, Zora!) was just published in 4x4 Magazine and I could not be more thrilled to share their fantastic poem! Check out 4x4 Mag and Zora Day-Friedland’s poem attached
\n![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcynthiacliff.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fscreenshot-2026-10-16-at-3.16.34pm.png\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/16/a-former-student-of-mine.html","date_published":"2026-10-16T19:28:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-16 19:28","date_timestamp":1792178912,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99349020","content_html":"🌬️ Emily Dickinson wrote in a letter to her literary mentor, Tomas Wentworth Higginson on April 25, 1862:
\n\n\n“I had a terror — since September — I could tell to none — and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground — because I am afraid.”
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Memorize a poem so if you are alone and afraid you have something to keep you company.
\nPoem I memorized from this week:
\nPeace | Gerard Manley Hopkins, can listen to it read here
\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/16/emily-dickinson-wrote-in-a.html","date_published":"2026-10-16T17:12:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-16 17:12","date_timestamp":1792170741,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99339033","content_html":"🪄 🐇 I found out last night that The Alliance of Magicians from Arrested Development is based on a REAL group and they host a real and exclusive magic show in LA at The Magic Castle. So, this is a new important side quest for me – if anyone knows a magician in LA please let me know!
\n![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcynthiacliff.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fscreenshot-2026-10-16-at-10.01.50am.png\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/16/i-found-out-last-night.html","date_published":"2026-10-16T14:02:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-16 14:02","date_timestamp":1792159364,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99309403","content_html":"A wildly soft, healing take on Matthew 22 from Good Shepherd New York (start ~25:25). Still very Christian, but healing for me as someone who came out of religious toxicity
\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/15/a-wildly-soft-healing-take.html","date_published":"2026-10-16T02:39:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-16 02:39","date_timestamp":1792118392,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99307556","content_html":"Smart Funny Anya Liftig as 🦞
\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/15/smart-funny-anya-liftig-as.html","date_published":"2026-10-16T01:22:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-16 01:22","date_timestamp":1792113748,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99292620","content_html":"🌬️ Elated to be reading poems this Sunday at don’t panic, enjoy, a reading series run by the artistic Joey Healey and Sofia Bagdade / also incredible reading poster made by Joey, name list version coming soon. ✍️ I’m going to wear something spooky and there will be refreshments 🕯️👻 – sunday | 138 w 15th st....
cynthiacliff.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/15/elated-to-be-reading-poems.html","date_published":"2026-10-15T18:46:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-15 18:46","date_timestamp":1792090007,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99225751","content_html":"Arthur Brooke’s Romeus and Juliet (1562)
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/14/arthur-brookes-romeus-and-juliet.html","date_published":"2026-10-14T17:26:53+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 17:26","date_timestamp":1791998813,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99220660","content_html":"For love is fearful oft where is no cause of fear, / And what love fears, that love laments, as though it chancéd were
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\n📜 Finished reading: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 📚 ★★★★ 4.5/5
\nLast time I read this was in high school, and we watched the Leo adaptation too, during which I took a long restroom break out of boredom and probably went to buy a cup of noodles.
\nVery romantic and filled with gorgeous moments that we often refer to and that feel cliché to us now, but truly are not. Juliet is the sun, for example.
\nBut it’s not allll romance. It’s a tragedy! & Shakespeare packs a punch. There is much warning and wisdom here, but also so much wordplay and insane metaphors. No doubt Shakespeare is also playing with...
cynthiacliff.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/14/finished-reading-romeo-and-juliet.html","date_published":"2026-10-14T15:48:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 15:48","date_timestamp":1791992915,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99211820","content_html":"🌬️ Mark Strand | Orpheus Alone
\nHighly recommend listening to his reading of it on Poetry Foundation
\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/14/mark-strand-orpheus-alone-highly.html","date_published":"2026-10-14T13:11:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-14 13:11","date_timestamp":1791983480,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99174828","content_html":"In the houses of friends, with his head back, his eyes / Closed, trying to will her return, but finding / Only himself, again and again, trapped / In the chill of his loss, and, finally, / Without a word, taking off to wander the hills / Outside of town, where he stayed until he had shaken / The image of love and put in its place the world / As he wished it would be
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I loved reading Calvin and Hobbes as a kid! I still have some of my childhood copies and I’ve been rereading some lately 🐅 👦🏼❤️
\n\n🌬️ In honor of poet Richard Howard’s 97th birthday I was able to attend a remembrance of him / his book library giveaway annnnd though i got many books worthy of mentioning — i nabbed this 1948 Quarterly Review dedicated to Marianne Moore, which came out right before her Collected Poems swept the Pulitzer,...
cynthiacliff.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/12/in-honor-of-poet-richard.html","date_published":"2026-10-13T02:36:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-13 02:36","date_timestamp":1791858989,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"99122014","content_html":"🤳 Some recent fav photos 💗🐇🫂
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\n\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/08/where-else-can-god-put.html","date_published":"2026-10-09T03:53:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-09 03:53","date_timestamp":1791518000,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98874005","content_html":"“Where else can God put God?” — Anne Carson
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🌬️ Big day for capital P Poetry! Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature 🐐 wahoooo!
\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcynthiacliff.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F683f3a18-c632-4bb8-9040-01130be98d8e.jpg\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/08/big-day-for-capital-p.html","date_published":"2026-10-08T13:19:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-08 13:19","date_timestamp":1791465591,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98819979","content_html":"\n\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/07/if-healing-is-possible-perhaps.html","date_published":"2026-10-07T15:35:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-07 15:35","date_timestamp":1791387358,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98816081","content_html":"“If healing is possible, perhaps it can be best accomplished through an embrace of the grotesque.” Deborah Willis on Titus Andronicus
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\n📜 Finished reading: Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare 📚
\nNow that I am getting into Shakespeare’s plays, I see that there is going to be a dance I have to do. I saw two adaptations while reading this and they were not equal … let me tell you. That said, I really loved this. A young Shakespeare is...
cynthiacliff.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/07/finished-reading-titus-andronicus-by.html","date_published":"2026-10-07T14:18:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-07 14:18","date_timestamp":1791382734,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98762050","content_html":"🕊️ I just turned 30 and I am thinking so much of my dad this month, his birthday around the corner and coming up on almost two years without him. I was 8 when he turned 30. Here are some pics of us close to his 30th! I remember listening to Tim McGraw, My Next Thirty Years on repeat with him – excited to...
cynthiacliff.micro.blog","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/06/i-just-turned-and-i.html","date_published":"2026-10-06T16:13:58+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-06 16:13","date_timestamp":1791303238,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98716876","content_html":"Day 1 as a writer in residence at Woodward! Stoked to be among a lovely & very talented cohort and inside such a gorgeous facility. See my fellow cohort here. Grateful for the generosity and excited for it.
\n![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fcynthiacliff.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2026%2Fscreenshot-2026-10-05-at-5.09.20pm.png\")
\n","summary":"","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/2026/10/05/day-today-as-a-writer.html","date_published":"2026-10-05T21:12:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Cynthia Clifford","url":"https://cynthiacliff.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F29%2F1860888.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"cynthiacliff"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-05 21:12","date_timestamp":1791234725,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98702556","content_html":"![](\"https://micro.blog/photos/100x/https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Fw154%2F82mCeQoeT2C7h7vR6Ot9MQotE1R.jpg\")
Watched: Titus 🎥
\nI just watched Julie Taymor’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Titus and I am in awe. First what an incredible cast: Anthony Hopkins, Alan Cumming, and Jessica Lange. It was gorgeous, zany, and theatrical. TS Eliot said about Titus Andronicus that it was one of the stupidest and...
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