Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry ‘Each Year’ by Dora Malech with Rita Colantonio
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Each Year’ by Dora Malech. Malech is the author of Stet (Princeton University Press, 2018), Say So (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), and Shore Ordered Ocean (Waywiser Press, 2009). She is the recipient of a Writer’s Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Center, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and an Amy Clampitt Residency Award. She lives in Baltimore, where she is an assistant professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. I have matched mobile art work entitled ‘Keepsake’ by @jules4921 – Rita Colantonio with this poem. You can view and follow her on Instagram here. Source poets.org If you would like to be featured in our…
Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry ‘Weep Holes’ by Andrea Cohen with Christine Mignon
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Weep Holes’ by Andrea Cohen. Cohen received an MFA from the University of Iowa. She is the author of the poetry collections Unfathoming (Four Way Books, 2017); Furs Not Mine (Four Way Books, 2015), winner of the 2016 Golden Crown Award for Poetry; Kentucky Derby (Salmon Poetry, 2011); Long Division (Salmon Poetry, 2009); and The Cartographer’s Vacation (Owl Creek Press, 1999). About her poetry, Tony Hoagland writes, “Cohen’s craft is meticulous, as with her flashlight she prowls and probes, reporting on the emotional transactions of our lives that can only partially be seen. The poetic results are fiercely distinctive and moving.” Cohen directs the Writers House at Merrimack…
Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Her Makeup Face’ by Garrett Hongo with Janis Brandenburg Lee
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Her Makeup Face’ by Garrett Hongo. Japanese American poet, Hongo, was born in Volcano, Hawaii, on May 30, 1951. He attended Pomona College and the University of Michigan. He received his MFA in English from the University of California at Irvine. His collections of poetry include Coral Road: Poems (Knopf, 2011); The River of Heaven (Knopf, 1988), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Yellow Light (Wesleyan University Press, 1982). He is also the author of The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays (University of Michigan Press, 2017) and Volcano:…
Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘When Giving Is All We Have’ by Alberto Rios
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘When Giving Is All We Have’ by Alberto Rios, 1952 and I felt it perfect for the upcoming Thanksgiving period. Ríos was born on September 18, 1952, in Nogales, Arizona. He received a BA degree in 1974 and an MFA in creative writing in 1979, both from the University of Arizona. “Alberto Ríos is a poet of reverie and magical perception,” wrote the judges of the 2002 National Book Awards, “and of the threshold between this world and the world just beyond.” He holds numerous awards, including six Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and fiction, the Arizona Governor’s Arts Award…
Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Sexy Poem to Cover my Bases’ by Emily Hunerwadel with @klmitt – M. Cecilia Sao Thiago
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Sexy Poem to Cover my Bases’ by Emily Hunerwadel. Hunerwadel is the author of Professional Crybaby (Poetry Society of America, 2018), selected by Kyle Dargan as the winner of a 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Hunerwadel is the managing editor of Slope Editions and media editor of jubilat. She lives in Western Massachusetts. I have matched art work entitled ‘Build, Destroy, Rebuild… mastering the art of bouncing back’ by @klmitt – M. Cecilia Sao Thiago with this poem. You can view and follow her on Instagram here. Source poets.org If you would like to be featured in our…
Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘I Cannot Be Quiet an Hour’ by Mary Ruefle with M. Cecilia Sao Thiago
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled “I Cannot be Quiet an Hour” by Mary Ruefle. Ruefle was born in Pennsylvania in 1952. Her father was a military officer, and she spent her early life traveling throughout the United States and Europe. She graduated from Bennington College in 1974 with a degree in literature. Ruefle has published many books of poetry, including My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016); Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013); A Little White Shadow (2006), an art book of “erasures,” a variation on found poetry; The Adamant (1989), winner of the 1988 Iowa Poetry Prize; and Memling’s Veil (University of Alabama Press, 1982). She is also the…
Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry by Nomi Stone with Mobile Photographer, Robin Robertis
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Waiting for Happiness’ by Nomi Stone. Stone’s second collection of poems, Kill Class, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2019. She is also the author of Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly Books, 2008). Stone is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She teaches anthropology at Princeton University and lives in Philadelphia. Source poets.org I have matched @robinrobertis – Robin Robertis’ image with this poem. You can view and follow her on Instagram here. If you would like to be featured in our Saturday Poetry section, please ensure you include…
Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry by Joanne Barker-Marsh with Lorenka Campos
This weeks Saturday Poetry, is a little different from our usual trend. That’s to say that usually I curate an image of mobile photography and/or art and poem. This time I am featuring poetry that has already been created and curated with Lorenka Campos’ image that she made for Abbey… The poet is Joanne Barker-Marsh @small_world_art and she wrote this poem as a tribute to this image and it was featured by @literary_images on Instagram. Poetry and art featured with copyright permissions granted in full.
Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry ‘One Night Comes Like a Blessing’ by Grace Nichols with Mimi Svanberg
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘One Night Comes Like a Blessing’ by Grace Nichols. If you find sleep elusive you will enjoy this poem and indeed Grace Nichol’s collection, The Insomnia Poems. Nichols is an insightful poet. Born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1950 Nichol’s grew up in a small country village on the Guyanese coast. She moved to the city with her family when she was eight, an experience central to her first novel, Whole of a Morning Sky (1986), set in 1960s Guyana in the middle of the country’s struggle for independence. She worked as a teacher and journalist and, as part of a…
Mobile Photography – Saturday Poetry – “Vertigo” by Anne Stevenson with Louise Whiting
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Vertigo’ by Anne Stevenson. “Mind and body are old sparring partners, and their apparent argument gets a sharp new twist in this cleverly titled, deftly rhymed parable by Anne Stevenson. Both are tempted by “the naked abyss”. To turn away from death towards life is one of the great acts of courage. Indecision causes vertigo. If only we could ask our bodies to choose, there’d be no dilemma – every cell is hard-wired to shout: “Life, please!” Source: The Guardian: From Poems 1955-2005, Anne Stevenson (Bloodaxe, 2004). Her most recent collection is Astonishment. I have matched @louisewhiting Louise Whiting’s image…
