Welcome to Carmina Magazine, a home for modern mythmaking!
Myths are timeless, and so is their ability to inspire. Long after their initial genesis, these ancient stories still live and breathe with us, informing our dreams, our nightmares, and our modern imaginations.
Carmina Magazine is a place where old stories can blossom into something new, showing that the myths of the past are just as relevant today as they were when they were first invented.
Carmina's name comes from the opening of Ovid's Metamorphoses (1.1-4),
in which the poet talks about writing with a similar creative lens:
In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas
corpora; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas)
adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi
ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen.
My spirit moves me to talk of bodies changed into new forms.
You, gods, since you are the ones who change these and other things,
breathe life into my attempts, and draw out (for me) an endless poem
from the start of the world to my own time.
—translated by the editor
If this resonates with you, then Carmina is a perfect place for you and your work—
thank you for being here!
