Appalachian Memories Hairpin turns in old cars With bad brakes, the reek Of whiskey. Tacky towns With tilted streets, young girls...

Sangoma The sky is heavy with rain. She touches heads of hundreds with her hand and walks among them, the bones in her sack in agreement...

On one of my many phone conversations with Lloyd’s mother, I thanked her profusely for all the time she spent teaching Lloyd as a boy....

I don’t have any idea how long we had been following the truck, but if you squinted into the noon glare the familiar pig’s head logo...

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

Here’s the Thing (For Janice and Phil) Slowly the news of your reality came to Most of us in this modern age on our screens – Distance...

A fisherman’s taking his boat deep across the lake. My old eyes trace his path all the way, his precise wavering, in and out of view....

Editor's note: Rosko Gee entered my consciousness as the superb bass guitarist on Traffic's When the Eagle Flies LP (1974), which was...

Charles Leslie died on Dec. 23, 1992, not quite five months past his birth. According to the paperwork, he died of SIDS, an acronym for...

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

“They played like a choir from heaven that just drank their first gaggle of cheap beer.” “NRBQ ... ” “Terry Adams wanted his band to have...

Phil Rice's Foreword for Undiscovered Dinosaur: Adventures with Rock Legends of the 60s, 70s, and 80s by Mick Lee. If I were to...

Intro: Super X Drugstore, Nashville, Tennessee, sometime in 1985. I’m there looking for a six-pack of beer. Passing the magazine aisle I...

There is a long and pleasant corridor, in the finest Nursing Home I have seen, protected by a coded locking door. On either side, life’s...

"The boy who would die," a poem written and read by Rethabile Masilo, is from the book Waslap (The Onslaught Press, 2015). This reading...

The moment she dies, you’re in stirrups having a pap smear. How symbolic is that? You made the appointment months ago. You were exhausted...

Steve Parham met Canopic's Phil Rice in 1976. For the next two years, Steve's relatively practical approach to being in high school...

Morning song Suddenly I felt awkward, and walked off, left heaven and its Messiah lectures and that flock of sheep, went down along old...

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...