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Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – The Flame Tree by Evelyn Flores
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled The Flame Tree by Evelyn Flores. She is an Indigenous CHamoru poet and the co-editor of Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019). “As it had been for the rest of the world, it had been a year of death and dying for us in the wake of the virus. On an island like Guåhan where families are connected in many different ways, we walked about in a state of shock that this could be happening. Then it was that my neighbor leaning across the fence talked about poisoning the flame tree. Although it made sense, something inside…
Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 3 July 2022
Thank you to all the talented artists for submitting your works to our showcase this week. If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art Flickr showcase, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. Alternatively if you’re an Instagram user just tag your images with #theappwhisperer and well pick you up. Deborah McMillion, borisbschulz2009, Andy Alexandre, Kerry Benbow, ilovekungfu, Rita Colantonio, Jun Yamaguchi, Star Greenhouse, anandamoy chatterji, Gianluca Ricoveri, p.a. hamel, Trish Korous, @sabinegromek, @rosannanjos_, @lindahollier, @effe5, @janisbrandenburg, @tintoftina, @mitry_date, @jack__mallon, @algerobie, @fabiangonzalezcolo, @hollybank_gallery, @marshadraws, @1000worte, @lyne.nagele, @nostalgic_august, @sarahdeutschphotography, @daystar1952, @nicholechristophe, @debergenseboekenkast, @yembo, @seelooksky, @womensvoice1, @eliza.tsitsimeaua, @lorelie2010, @janravo, @lorelie2010, @fayemcginley, @mishpix365, @mduyulmus_stbenoitsb, …
Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – Coherence in Consequence by Claudia Rankine
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled Coherence in Consequence by Claudia Rankine. Born in Jamaica in 1963, Claudia Rankine earned her BA in English from Williams College and her MFA in poetry from Columbia University. She is the author of several collections, including Just Us: An American Conversation(Graywolf Press, 2020); Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014), which received the 2016 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Book Prize for Poetry, the 2015 Forward Prize for Poetry, and the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry; and Nothing in Nature is Private (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1995), which received the Cleveland State Poetry Prize. Rankine has edited numerous anthologies, including The Racial…
Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 26 June 2022
This week my favourite book publisher, MACK books sent me their title SCUMB Manifesto by Justine Kurland, to review and I love it! Inspired by Valerie Solanas’ iconoclastic feminist tract SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men), SCUMB Manifesto introduces us to photographer Justine Kurland’s own uncompromising initiative: the Society for Cutting Up Men’s Books. And she does just that, books by 150 white straight men are cut up and reconfigured into her own intricate interpretation. Books by Stephen Shore (American Surfaces), William Eggleston (Los Alamos), Larry Clark’s (Tusla), Martin Parr’s (Think of England), Alec Soth’s (Sleeping by the Mississippi), Brassaï’s (Paris by Night) and last but not all, Robert Frank’s (The…
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Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – ‘In Praise of Dreams’ by Gary Soto
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘In Praise of Dreams’ by Gary Soto. He says of this poem “years ago, a poet friend showed me a photo of her cat, taken on the spur of the moment, with a cigarette in her furry chops. The cat was walking across a thick springy lawn. If I hadn’t trusted my friend, I would have shrugged and said, ‘I don’t believe it for one second—get me another beer, please.’ This poem of mine is all about the unbelievable, which visits me in dreams, with the help of godsend Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska.” I have matched mobile art by @nika.novich.art –…
Mobile Art Pic of the Day (1,754)
Here’s day one thousand, seven hundred and fifty four of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Today, we are proud to select @fichristian – Fiona Christian with this image untitled. To view her Instagram account, please go here. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer
Mobile Art Pic of the Day (1,753)
Here’s day one thousand, seven hundred and fifty three of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Today, we are proud to select @patricialeedsart – Patricia Leeds with this image untitled. To view her Instagram account, please go here. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer
Mobile Art Pic of the Day (1,752)
Here’s day one thousand, seven hundred and fifty two of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Today, we are proud to select @hug.lionel.photography – Lionel Hug with this image entitled ‘Dahlia, Étude I, Thiré 2022‘. To view his Instagram account, please go here. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer
Mobile Art Pic of the Day (1,751)
Here’s day one thousand, seven hundred and fifty one of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Today, we are proud to select @janisbrandenburg – Janis Brandenburg with this image entitled ‘Olivia’. To view her Instagram account, please go here. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer
