by Silvia Passiflora

Poetry competitions with publishing contracts and monetary prizes often disqualify work that has already appeared online, which means poets actively building a public body of work can find themselves excluded for the very visibility and consistency that…

As an independent publisher and author, I have full control over my cover art. The constellation on the back cover is Scorpius. I placed it there deliberately. Antares — the heart star of Scorpius, is one of the largest stars…

Aurora Cantus is moving into final layout today — which means physical printing is next. 🌙

This one has been a long time becoming. 33 poems. A book of hours. A full arc from dawn to again.

And just behind…

It cost me the knowledge that I am alone.

That is the truest thing I can say about this book, and also the thing that made it necessary.

In the summer and fall of 2025, I submitted two albums for…

"Wolf at the river / one paw pressed into the mud."

The poetry editor of a respected Southern literary magazine read that line on my website — unprompted — and invited me to submit my debut collection for review.

Aurora…

The First Reading of Midnight Fields
April 2026

A new literary form made its public debut this weekend. Midnight Fields is a poetic screenplay — every episode composed entirely in micropoetry, compact stanzas, each carrying the weight of a scene…

A year ago, John Pineiro met me where I was. He did not hand me a theory lesson. He handed me a microphone and let the work be what it needed to be — whole, live, unbroken. Had he sat…

I walked into John Pineiro's Nashville studio expecting to record.

He had other plans — and I am so grateful he did.

What happened instead was a proper pre-production session. No mic, no takes, just the song, a pencil, and…

I have been in John Pineiro's Nashville studio before. We made Incarnata there. We made Florentinae there — live, no stems, vocal and performance together, exactly the way I do it on stage, because that was the only way to…

On Sunday, March 29, I'll be performing live on Appalachian Artists Live, hosted by Kevin Edwards on WEHC FM — recorded for the Appalachian Artists Live YouTube channel, where local and regional artists have been celebrated for over five years.

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There’s a catch-22 nobody warns you about. 

To get booked at a serious venue, you need to prove you have a draw. To prove you have a draw, you need to have played serious venues. The gatekeeper isn’t villainous. They’re…

This post first appeared as an Editor's Letter at Scriptaluna.com, where I write about artist governance, metadata, and the infrastructure behind creative work. Read it there.

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I saw a post today about how long it can take to figure out your artistic identity — the sound, the visuals, the overall vibe.

My experience went in the opposite order.

When I started releasing music, I focused first…

Independent artist life has a funny way of expanding your job description.

Lately, I’ve been working on something most listeners never see but that quietly shapes how music lives in the world long-term: building my global database footprint  My releases…

Patience and efficiency have carried me further as an independent artist than any single strategy ever could. Not speed. Not hype. Just the steady willingness to sit with complex, unglamorous processes long enough to understand them.

Discogs, a global music…

I’ve been evicting my vampire apps lately 🧛‍♀️ — the ones feeding on old passwords, duplicate emails, and my very optimistic past self. It was a maze with a few ghosts in the corners and subscriptions that did not want…

Last year, my work focused on deep infrastructure: learning how to embed metadata properly, and writing it with archival precision. Two albums went through weeks of meticulous metadata creation at Library of Congress standards. I also registered my releases for…