Mobile Photography & Art – Saturday Poetry – On Working Remotely & No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain by Camisha L. Jones
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘On Working Remotely & No Longer Commuting with Chronic Pain’ by Camisha L. Jones. She is the author of the chapbook Flare (Finishing Line Press, 2017). The recipient of a 2017 Spoken Word Immersion Fellowship from the Loft Literary Center, she currently serves as the managing director at Split This Rock and resides in Herndon, Virginia. Here she explains what this poem is about, “while writing this poem, I was thinking about my pre-pandemic commute to work—three hours total, one and a half hours each way. I was astounded at all I pushed through for years. My time off was…
Mobile Photography & Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘What is Water?’ by Danielle Legros Georges
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘What is Water?’ by Danielle Legros Georges. Georges is the author of The Dear Remote Nearness of You (Barrow Street Press, 2016) and was chosen as Boston’s second poet laureate in 2014. Georges was born in Haiti and raised in the United States. She received a BA from Emerson College in Boston and an MFA in poetry from New York University. She is the author of two poetry collections: The Dear Remote Nearness of You (Barrow Street Press, 2016), winner of the New England Poetry Club’s 2016 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, and Maroon (Curbstone Books, 2001). She has received fellowships from the Barbara Deming Memorial…
