Eastern Bluebird and a Group of Bleeding Hearts Sheltering a Chrysalis When it was finally condemned, locked between crane jaws and torn...

Embracing the Rain Here in my 70th year, I’m seventeen once more, leaning on the back-door frame and watching summer rain. The same...

Georgiana, Alabama, 1998 A woman growing old chokes up at the mere thought of seeing the house her father built a half mile away from...

Layers Morning lies heavy on the mountains. A dark veil begins to lift, and I seek to lift my own layers of darkness, let light filter...

50 Words at a Time Whenever you smoke I know trouble is coming. The creases in your baggy pant legs are full of ash. Your hair spikes and...

The Bee Keeper’s Wife The clock strikes five and he goes to be with her, to watch how she moves, feel how she fusses mere inches from his...

Canopic Jar 35, an anthology in print, is now available. Copies can be purchased directly from Canopic (here) or through Amazon (here)....

Climber Frozen on a Look Rock Monolith Halfway up the rock she stops. A buzzard glides past. She curses her winglessness, right boot...

Six Foot Deep The crescent moon waxes her tips towards Venus and your hand reaches for the shovel. Always the same: four foot long, two...

SHADOWS We walk together on this late December afternoon as we have walked For more than half a century. If we stand each year in...

Captain Charlie's Station (watercolor on paper, 2000) Sarah Hasty Williams is an artist, graphic designer and writer. For more of her...

Visit the Alan Phillips' online Art Gallery

In early spring 1968, when I was seven, my brother Hal, five years my senior, showed me how to read the statistics on the back of...

Editor's note: Tillman Crane is a photographer of deep talent and keen awareness. For folks who are inspired by the art of photography,...

Illustration by Sarah Hasty Williams The Old Dreamer No longer dreams of glass-winged dragonflies That hawked mosquitos from the summer...

Born in the John Ross House in Rossville, Georgia, Charles Rice lived most of his boyhood at the foot of Missionary Ridge on the...

First comes the idea, the vision, the creative voice. Then the mind gives wings to that voice and vision. The soul moves through the...

Around the turn of the latest century, Canopic was introduced to the artwork of Alan Phillips. We even had the honor of collaborating...

Gleah Powers is the author of the award winning novella Edna and Luna, which was named a Finalist in the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book...

The first two issues of Canopic Jar were printed and distributed (marginally) in 1986. The highlights included poetry by P.A. Merrill...