Canopic Jar began in 1986 as a very small print journal featuring poetry and drawings. It was informal with modest ambitions. During the 1990s the Jar appeared as a magazine (printed in the middle of the night on the presses of Nashville’s Nicholstone Book Bindery), a live show of music and readings, an audio cassette, and a video.
By 1999, Canopic Jar was an online entity. Initially keeping the numbered issues format, it evolved into an unnumbered rotating forum for various artists and artistic ventures as well as being a place to showcase works associated with Canopic Publishing. The current Jar continues those concepts. We’ll be posting poems, fiction, essays, songs, and visual arts. And other stuff.
The Jar is still informal with modest ambitions. The main idea is to share art.
Current co-conspirators in the Jar are Phil Rice, Virginia Smith Rice, Rethabile Masilo (who first appeared in issue #2, 1986) and artist Sarah Hasty Williams.
