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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Blue Tattoo’
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Blue Tattoo’ by John Richard Reed. I have matched @booksandshit – Michel Pretterklieber’s image ‘Smokings 001/666’ with this poem. You can view and follow him here on Instagram. Source: Poetry Foundation To view the others we have published in this section, go here. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisper
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Old Love and New’
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Old Love and New’ by Sara Teasdale. Teesdale received public admiration for her well-crafted lyrical poetry which centered on a woman’s changing perspectives on beauty, love, and death. Many of Teasdale’s poems chart developments in her own life, from her experiences as a sheltered young woman in St. Louis, to those as a successful yet increasingly uneasy writer in New York City, to a depressed and disillusioned person who would commit suicide in 1933. Although many later critics would not consider Teasdale a major poet, she was popular in her lifetime with both the public and critics. She won the…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘To See The Glass Half Full (note to self)’
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘To See The Glass Half Full (note to self)’ and is by Doris Culverhouse. It is so important that we cultivate and focus of optimism and the good in life and at times, we all have difficulties with this. To my mind, when we lose our footing, as long as we default back to see the glass half full, then all will be well, we have make it so. Source: PoetrySoup I have matched @tootz – Suza’s – image ‘Gerbera quietly going to seed’ with this poem. You can view and follow her here on Instagram. To view the others…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Tremble’ by Major Jackson with Roger Guetta
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Tremble’ and is by Major Jackson. “Major Jackson’s books of poems are Holding Company (2010, Norton) and Hoops (2006, Norton), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (2002, University of Georgia Press), which was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Nobody Told Me’
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is in some ways a dedication to the poet Hollie McNish. Essentially, when she became pregnant, she didn’t feel she was ready to be a mother, actually she felt ashamed and channelled her feelings, of parenthood, into verse. McNish’s poetry is not all about love and joy, it’s about pregnancy worries and traumas to all the concerns and pressures we feel post pregnancy too. With public breastfeeding in toilets, to trying to quieten down her baby whilst commuting to work on the train. With my own daughter now at thirteen years old, these type of issues are behind us and I am…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – “Hope’ ‘is the thing with Feathers’
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is a poem entitled “Hope” ‘is the thing with feathers’ by one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time, Emily Dickinson. “As with many of her poems, Emily Dickinson takes an abstract feeling or idea – in this case, hope – and likens it to something physical, visible, and tangible – here, a singing bird. Hope, for Dickinson, sings its wordless tune and never stops singing it: nothing can faze it. In other words (as it were), hope does not communicate by ‘speaking’ to us in a conventional sense: it is a feeling that we get, not always a…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – Scottish Poet Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery’s poetry has become so ‘in vogue’ that some people are adorning their bodies with tattoos of it. (see below). Montgomery’s work reaches a wide audience because he shares it from advertising billboards and the like. He has also been involved with the ‘Pay with a Poem’ campaign, which allows customers in poetry cafes to exchange poetry for coffee across the world. The aim is that Montgomery will collect these poems and create an installation in a secret location. It’s a very cool and a very interesting concept. I am all for reaching new audiences, whether we are discussing poetry or photography and art. Of course, I like to…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – In a Garden by Amy Lowell
“An oft-quoted remark attributed to poet Amy Lowell applies to both her determined personality and her sense of humor: “God made me a business woman,” Lowell is reported to have quipped, “and I made myself a poet.” During a career that spanned just over a dozen years, she wrote and published over 650 poems, yet scholars cite Lowell’s tireless efforts to awaken American readers to contemporary trends in poetry as her more influential contribution to literary history. “Poet, propagandist, lecturer, translator, biographer, critic . . . her verve is almost as remarkable as her verse,” opined poet Louis Untermeyer in his 1923 work American Poetry since 1900. A collection of…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – Sentenced to Life – Clive James
I am a huge fan of Clive James, he made his name as a television critic, essayist and wit but he started as a poet and five years ago he was diagnosed with leukaemia, emphysema and kidney failure – he describes it as ‘the lot’ and he is ending as a poet. There’s a particular story I remember reading about James, it goes like this… One time he was going through a creative dry spell. He had written a play for the London stage and it bombed spectacularly. Not only did it ruin his family financially but it also cost him some dear friends. He fell into the deepest depression…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Purple Elegy’ by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is a poem entitled ‘Purple Elegy’ by Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Born and raised in New York City, poet, literary and art critic, and translator Rowan Ricardo Phillips earned a BA at Swarthmore College and a PhD at Brown University. He is the author of the poetry collections The Ground (2012) and Heaven (2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. In addition to his collections of poetry, Phillips is author of the critical volume When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness (2010). He translated Salvador Espriu’s story collection Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth (2012). Phillips received a 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award and…
