BradQuan Copeland
The Third Place: The Vision of a Communitarian A Literary Profile Essay by BradQuan Copeland. Sugared gummies dissolve beneath my teeth as I double-fist vape pens, coating my lungs with the dense sweetness of a honeypot high drawn through a bong packed with live resin wax and freshly ground flower. My tension yields to the […]
A Psycho-Philosophical Literary Profile By BradQuan Copeland. So often, I’ll blare music through the cushion of my headphones to insulate myself from the anxieties of society. And so often, since childhood, I’ve been told how problematic such behavior can be for the quality of my hearing. Yet I continue to do it, because I care […]
The Courage of Softness A Feature by BradQuan Copeland Photo By: Nate Black The ache of brooding bends through thought as my nerves succumb beneath the weight of haze. Running on eight hours of sleep across the last forty-eight, I sit deeply folded into myself, my head slumped against the driver-side window as I scope […]
An Xperience Interview By BradQuan Copeland. Even beneath the blaze of the summer sun, he dwells within the chill of grog, locked within the ruins of rumination, feeling as though a fraught string has been threaded through his temples, looped around his skull, and constricted with the hunger of a feral serpent. His disdain for […]
By BradQuan Copeland. “As long as I can see you, you’ll always only be mine,” he echoes softly to them, his hand pressed lightly against the small of their back as their lead-laced lids peeled open one at a time. Elegantly dressed, they stand as mere specks within the gilded hall, marble floors pulsing beneath […]
By BradQuan Copeland. Back in the early winter, a little after easing into the exuberant inception of the new year, I linked up with the local rising recording artist Ricky Bandana, who welcomed me into his gracious abode, where we kicked it in his DIY studio for a day-in-the-life interview. After coursing through his discography, […]
The Rarity of Being By BradQuan Copeland. What’s the rarest material in the universe? Gold? Diamonds? Well, those assumptions aren’t even close. According to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, such materials are so ubiquitous throughout the universe that there are entire planets composed of the very elements most of us would sell our souls for here […]
By BradQuan Copeland. The pale distance of light paints a sky doused in lethargy. For three months, feral air nips at the lungs. Stagnant trees stand stripped of all dignity, and hours stretch to the point of mental deformity. Seeking relief from the brute force of Gaia’s despair, I drag my leaden husk to the […]
By BradQuan Copeland. We’re really not effective as artists or activists if we’re not in tune with our emotional worlds. This world doesn’t make way for the unbowed who embody the shape of abstraction. Instead, they must press forth on the outskirts of repression, bearing only conviction, fueling the will to radiate through regularity. This […]
By BradQuan Copeland. The depletion of cohesion beneath collapse’s looming mass leaves an absence of faith, where ruptive passion takes shape. Immersed in the saturation of unceasing sighs, divinity dangles hope where fleeing life can’t arise, until the relentless will to survive unearths the craft of what it means to be alive. This verity unveiled […]
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