The Portable Muse concept came from random years spent in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Boston. During these years, the editor spent his time spreading thoughts on tables like scrabble with friends and acquaintances and lovers.

The idea for a magazine that was both accessible and simple enough to enable the many thoughts and words scattered on these tables to grow and live on their own came about.

Sitting around in a living room in Cambridge, MA one night with a girl named Frog, the name 'Pocket Goddess' came up as a possible magazine side project. After realizing this evoked thoughts of vibrators and vaginas, the thought was quickly scrapped and tucked away on an untitled word file.

Months later, the idea of a small muse being tucked away in one's hip pocket came about and the entire purpose of the magazine took shape from that very image.

The purpose of this magazine is to focus on the more random, subtle, and sublime aspects of everyday musings and one's ever-evolving need for something entertaining and inspiring.

The intention of this online magazine is to create an open forum for thinkers and feelers. We're open for submissions of all kinds: abstract art, political essays, anything taboo, and everything to the left and underneath someone's breath.

Throughout 2002, we're hoping that the magazine evolves into the persona of its artists and contributors. We hope that, through the months, this site can become a place to organize, detach, scatter, and reconnect images and words into something resembling a muse in one's hip pocket. A muse that serves as a catalyst to bring you into a different space.

-The Portable Muse.

Staffwriters
Alexandra Cole
Ryan Wells
Winnie Wong
Terri Trespicio
Rachel Lawrence
Libby Ellis
Matt Goodman
Chinedum Osuji

Art Direction - Mike Hammecker
Fiction Editor - Armand Inezian
Artist in Residence - Angellina Earley
Editor / Web Designer - Stanley Tam