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…
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…
Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – ‘Last Supper’ by Charles Wright
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Last Supper’ by Charles Wright. Born in 1935, Charles Wright is the author of several books of poetry and has received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He taught at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville as the Souder Family Professor of English. His many honors include the 2013 Bollingen Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit Medal, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. In 1999 he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and served until 2002. In 2014, he was appointed United States Poet…
Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – ‘Climate’ Meghann Plunkett
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Climate’ by Meghann Plunkett. She is a prize winner poet, author, and currently works as television writer on various Trip the Lights and Shondaland productions. Here she explains the meaning to this poem “As a child of a traditional woman, and growing up in New England on a small peninsula of land, I witnessed erosions of many kinds. The shoreline curbing back a few inches after each storm, the flooding of our main streets, the ways the women of my family would shrink and serve—what they would tolerate—always under the threat of disappearing. It took me years to realize that…
Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – The Power of Hope Today – Gabrielle Marshall
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘The Power of Hope Today’ by Gabrielle Marshall. She is a seventh-grader from Virginia. Her poem The Power of Hope Today was the third-place winner of the 2021 Inaugural Poem Contest for Students. Of her poem, judge Richard Blanco said, ‘Reminiscent of Emily Dickinsons famous poem, Hope is the thing with feathers, Gabrielle Marshallreaffirms the enduring and unwavering power of our nations hopes, which never abandons us, even during these trying times’. I have matched artwork by @rosaliehellerphotography with this poem entitled ‘Ocean City Maryland’. You can view her Instagram feed here. If you would like to be featured in our…
Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – Sometimes There Is A Day – Naomi Shihab Nye
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Sometimes There Is A Day’ by Naomi Shihab Nye. I have matched artwork by @robynmencher – Robyn Mencher with this poem entitled “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank, Anne Frank’s Tales from the Secret Annex. You can view her Instagram feed here. 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 will be able to consider it. To view the others we have published in this…
Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – Beyond Love
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Beyond Love’ by Emma Bolden. She is the author of three poetry collections, House Is an Enigma (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Cowles Poetry Book Prize; medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press, 2016); and Maleficae (GenPop Books, 2013). Bolden is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among other honors, and serves as the associate editor-in-chief at Tupelo Quarterly. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama. I have matched artwork by @remnants_captured with this image entitled ‘A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet…
Mobile Art Saturday Poetry- Heart to Heart
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Heart to Heart’ by Rita Dove. She is 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. Describing this poem Dove expressed, ““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…
Mobile Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘February’
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘February’ by Tomiko Beyer. Beyer is a Japanese American, queer femme poet and the author of Last Days (Alice James Books, 2021). Describing this poem Beyer explains, “Over the past few years, in part inspired and encouraged by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, I have slowly been building a relationship with the stolen land that I occupy. I am learning to listen to the land, people, ancestors, seasons, and more-than-human beings of this place. I am trying to live fully in all the seasons—and winter is where I struggle most. This poem, written in February and revised over the summer,…
Mobile Photography & Art – Saturday Poetry – Self-Compassion – James Crews
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Self-Compassion’ by James Crews. He is the author of The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy (Storey Publishing, 2022) and the co-founder of the Poetry of Resilience seminars. Crews wrote ‘Self-Compassion’ the summer after the pandemic first began. He explained ‘when I felt so worried for the state of our country and planet, when everything in our individual lives also seemed to be falling apart—the leaky pipe, my husband’s health. I’m a recovering cynic, so self-care practices can still seem silly to me, but in this case, I had no choice but to be kind to myself, the wise…
