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Mobile Photography & Art Saturday Poetry ‘This Morning I Pray for My Enemies’ by Joy Harjo with @ja_graham
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘This Morning I Pray for My Enemies’ by Joy Harjo. Harjo was appointed the new United States poet laureate in 2019. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1951, Harjo is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She is the author of several books of poetry, including An American Sunrise, which is forthcoming from W. W. Norton in 2019, and Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton, 2015). She is a current Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Source poets.org I have matched this image entitled ‘The Book of Tea’ – Kakuzo Okakura by @ja_graham…
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Mobile Photography & Art Saturday Poetry – ‘I hope to God you will not ask’ by Esther Belin with M. Cecilia Sao Thiago
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘I hope to God you will not ask’ by Esther Belin. She explains, “this poem is an anagram poem using a phrase taken from Navajo headman, Barboncito, in his speech to General Sherman on May 28, 1868. As a citizen of the Navajo Nation, I am grateful to our leaders who had courage and vision to express our innate connection to our homeland, Diné bikéyah. This poem was inspired by the work of Terrance Hayes and his wonderful craft of anagram poetry.” Belin is the author two poetry collections, including Of Cartography (University of Arizona Press, 2017), and From the…
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Mobile Photography & Art Saturday Poetry – ‘Instrument’ by Dao Strom with Sarah Bichachi
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Instrument’. “I wrote this poem at the end of 2016. In the wake of the election, the phrase ‘burning-est woken of time’ spoke to a sense of urgency and self-questioning as to what kind of ‘instrument’ I would wish to be, and how. I remember there were a lot of words in the air at the time, rhetoric zinging back and forth on how to fight, resist, right and wrong ways to be, etc.—and maybe in response a part of me was craving a quieter version of myself, to be a conduit and hold channels open without falling prey to…
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Mobile Photography & Art Saturday Poetry ‘After He’s Decided to Leave’ by Elizabeth Acevedo with Eliza Badiou
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘After He’s Decided to Leave’ by Elizabeth Acevdeo. Elizabeth Acevedo is author of THE POET X (HarperTeen, 2018), which won the 2018 National Book Award in Young People’s Literature. She holds a BA from The George Washington University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. Acevedo is a National Poetry Slam Champion and lives in Washington, D.C. Source poets.org I have matched this image by @elizabadoiu – Eliza Badoiu – entitled ‘Just an intuitive moment’, with this poem. You can view and follow her work on Instagram here. If you would like to be featured in…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry ‘That’s My Heart Right There’ by Willie Perdomo with @raveninnyc – Lori
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘That’s My Heart Right There’ by Willie Perdomo. Perdomo is the author of The Crazy Bunch (Penguin Books, 2019); The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Books, 2014); Smoking Lovely (Rattapallax, 2003), winner of the PEN Beyond Margins Award; and Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (W. W. Norton, 1996), a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, BOMB, Mandorla, and African Voices. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a former recipient of the Woolrich Fellowship in Creative Writing at Columbia University, and a two-time New York…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘It Ain’t What You Do, It’s What It Does To You’ with
I am very excited about this weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art, precisely because I am so delighted that Simon Armitage has been named the UK’s poet laureate this week. He is such a scintillating choice, born very much without a silver spoon, Amitage was born in West Yorkshire and is a former probation officer. He received a phone call from Prime Minster Theresa May on Thursday, just gone, offering him the position. The office of laureate is Britain’s highest literally honour and has its roots in the 17th century. This is not a lifetime post anymore, but a mere ten years, during which he will receive an annual…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Once the World was Perfect’ by Joy Harjo with @kay_arm_strong
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Once the World was Perfect’ by Joy Harjo. Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 9, 1951, and is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Harjo received a BA degree from the University of New Mexico before earning an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1978. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W. W. Norton, 2015); How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2002); The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (W. W. Norton, 1994), which received the Oklahoma Book Arts Award; In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan University Press, 1990), which received…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Self Portrait in the Nude’ by Allison Funk with Juta Jazz
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Self Portrait in the Nude’ by Allison Funk. Funk is the author of five books of poems: Wonder Rooms (Parlor Press, 2015); The Tumbling Box (C&R Press, 2009); The Knot Garden (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002); Living at the Epicenter (Northeastern University Press, 1995), selected by Sonia Sanchez as the winner of the 1994 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize; and Forms of Conversion (Alice James Books, 1986). I have matched mobile art work entitled ‘waha_2’ by @jutajazz1 – Juta Jazz with this poem. You can view and follow her work on Instagram here. Source poets.org If you would like to be…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Self-Portrait as Semiramis’ by Mary-Kim Arnold with @thefringeproject
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Self-Portrait as Semiramis’ by Mary-Kim Arnold. Arnold is the author of The Fish & The Dove, forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2020, and Litany for the Long Moment (Essay Press, 2018). She teaches creative nonfiction at Brown University and lives in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. I have matched mobile art work entitled ‘Fringe number eleven’. From a collaboration entitled @thefringeproject with @imagomimago – Mimi Svanberg, together with photographer @catolein – Cato Lein. You can view and follow this project on Instagram here. Source poets.org If you would like to be featured in our Saturday Poetry section, please ensure you include the…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Dear David’ by Matthew Burgess with @knoxmomi_365
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Dear David’ by Matthew Burgess. Burgess is the author of Slippers for Elsewhere (UpSet Press, 2014). He teaches at Brooklyn College and is a poet-in-residence in New York City elementary schools with Teachers & Writers Collaborative. He lives in Brooklyn. I have matched mobile art work entitled ‘Day 363/365 December 29, 2018 @1.31pm” by @knoxmomi_365 – Julienne with this poem. You can view and follow her on Instagram here. Source poets.org If you would like to be featured in our Saturday Poetry section, please ensure you include the hashtag #theappwhisperer to any images posted to Instagram. This will mean we…
