Syzygy

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Poetry and the Arts in Indiana and surrounding areas.

 
Syzygy was founded at the onset of the year 2008 and currently operates out of Jeffersonville in Southern Indiana.  Our goal is to provide Indiana and area poets, musicians, writers, and artists a forum to express their work on the internet, in print, and through live performance, while providing the public with free access to a variety of artistic forms.  We believe that our mixed art-form approach will draw the attention of local culture-seekers to their preferred genre while introducing them to local artists in other forms that they might not be exposed to otherwise.  We currently host three open mics (more information in our events section), but are looking to expand quickly to include a writers workshop, a free monthly literary arts newsletter, a poetry slam, and mixed art-form featured events.  We are currently looking for volunteers and local sponsorship.  To inquire, please contact Ian through the Contact Us section of the website, where you can also sign up for our e-mail list.     
Syzygy history
Syzygy was founded the first week of 2008 by Ian Uriel Girdley.  Ian moved to Jeffersonville in 2007 from Bloomington, Indiana where he was a participant in many poetry events hosted by Matrix Literary Arts Organization (www.matrixmag.com), and the Three-Headed Dog, a recurring poetry and music open mic.  He also founded Drunk and Unpublished poetry group where he organized and promoted their featured readings, open mics, and guerilla poetry assaults. 
Syzygy is a very new organization and looking to expand.  Within a week of forming, Syzygy organized two monthly open mics with a gameplan for further events and publications.  Syzygy was formed not for profit, not for charity, but to promote the variable talent of literary arts hosting itself in Indiana and surrounding regions. 
Leonard Cohen
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Eli Khamarov, The Shadow Zone 
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Robert Graves
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Stephen Mallarme
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
Soren Kierkegaard
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul."