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Saturday Poetry – ‘Heart to Heart’ Rita Dove
Saturday Poetry This week’s Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Heart to Heart’ by Rita Dove. The author of numerous collections of poetry, Rita Dove served as the US Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995 and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2005 to 2011. She explained, “how to find words for the human heart and all the emotions we ascribe to it? The path is a veritable minefield of clichés—those well-intentioned, once-fresh expressions whose very popularity has rendered them useless, even laughable. I decided to take these tired metaphors and deconstruct their camouflage until all that remains is the true ‘heart’ of the…
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The Greatest Mobile Photography / Art New Year Resolutions 2023 From Artists Throughout The World
For many 2022 was a blur, we find ourselves here in 2023 almost without realising it. We are all still trying to recover from the pandemic, physically, mentally and financially, there are few among us that it hasn’t taken its toll. Yet, here we are doing what artists do, creating, rejoicing and sharing. Enjoy this long read, it is such a good opportunity to check in on everyone. Thank you to all who have contributed to making this year’s resolutions making this one the biggest ever as always, if I have missed anyone, please know it was not intentional, remind me, send me your content, and I will open the…
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Saturday Poetry – Below Zero by Jay Parini
Saturday Poetry This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Below Zero” by Jay Parini. He has published multiple collections of poetry, as well as novels, biographies and academic texts. He has received honorary degrees from Lafayette College and the University of Scranton and fellowships from Christ Church at Oxford University, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the School of Advanced Study (Institute of English Studies) at the University of London. I have matched mobile art by @bigganvi – Birgitta Sjöstedt entitled – ‘Mysterious’ To view her Instagram account please go here. If you would like to be featured in our Saturday Poetry section, please ensure you include the hashtag…
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Saturday Poetry – A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down by Emily Pittinos
Saturday Poetry This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘A Cloud of Drench Bearing Down’ by Emily Pittinos. She is a poet, author, and winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize. The recipient of a 2022 literature fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, she is a visiting lecturer in creative writing at Boise State University in Boise, where she lives. I have matched mobile art by @debergenseboekenkast entitled ‘We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. Ernest Hemingway A moveable feast’. To view her Instagram account please go here. If you would…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase 29 May 2022
Relentlessly exciting this weeks mobile photography and art showcase is a generous, escapist treat. It’s a sweeping, swashbuckling film full of colour and grand destiny. The joy of this dynamic, soaring showcase is not a welcome extra but its very engine ― enjoy. 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 youre an Instagram user just tag your images with #theappwhisperer and well pick you up. Damian De Souza, Clint Cline, Gianluca Ricoveri,…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 15 May 2022
A unequivocal portrait of a visual medium, this mobile photography and art showcase entices the viewer to look through the lens of cultural critique. Ethereal and provocative, as rich as it is succulent, enjoy! 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 we’ll pick you up. Jun Yamaguchi, Susan Detroy, Peter Wilkin, Rita Colantonio, Oola Cristina, Damian De Souza, Clint Cline, Fleur Schim, Gianluca Ricoveri,…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 8 May 2022
What’s so impressive about this weeks mobile photography and art showcase is how deeply we care about each and every artist, how the shape and texture of each of their artworks collide to build a story all its own. This showcase grasps for and ultimately reaches something extraordinary, gliding through the 21st century thoroughly immersing the viewer, it’s nothing short of a masterpiece. 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…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 1 May 2022
Imagine living the same life you do now, only loving deeply and continually-delighting in the warmth of your morning shower, relishing the smell of breakfast cooking, celebrating with the birds on your way to work, enjoying driving the roadways, feeling bonds of cooperation with your co-workers, cherishing you family members, and deeply appreciating whatever and whoever is at hand. Visualise going through the activities of a typical day while deeply caring about what you are doing, a day in which sensitivity, affection, warmth and wonder fill the moments. That love-filled life is your birthright as a human being… beautiful words from ‘The Art and Practice of Loving: Living a Heartfelt…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase 10 April 2022
“I told you I was ill‘, my favourite black comedy quote, by Spike Milligan, engraved into his gravestone. For many, health anxiety is a compartment of life – a dark cell – usually totally separate from their day-to-day self. Of course, there’s a lot to be anxious about in the world today and this phenomena shows no sigh of shrinking. Psychoanalyst Michael Currie notes that we rarely deal with the causes of anxiety – job insecurity for example, or social isolation – when trying to treat it. Writing in The Monthly, he says: “Anxiety-as-disease is treated much like an infection, as if the symptoms were a bacterium that should be eradicated.” The…
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Mobile Art Pic of the Day (1,699)
Here’s day one thousand, six hundred and ninety nine of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Today, we are proud to select @wemarriage_goddess with this image entitled, “The Dance is Magic” ©️Bridget & John Original 2022. 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