Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – Hope is a Bruise – by Dasha Kelly Hamilton
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Hope is a Bruise’ by Dasha Kelly Hamilton. She is poet laureate of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the state of Wisconsin, is the author of Life in Short (Boswell Book Company, 2020) and an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Embassy. In 2021, Hamilton received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship to create a Milwaukee Youth Poet Laureate program and position, which will be an immersive and divergent approach to youth dialogue, leadership, and literary arts. The inaugural Milwaukee Youth Poet Laureate will be selected through a contest. Top pieces from the contest will be included in an anthology and finalists will advance to a recognition…
You May Also Like
MoJo Conference – Exclusive Interview with Music Maker representing IK MultiMedia by Tim Bingham
Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview “Why Do You Create Mobile Photography/Art?” with M. Cecilia São Thiago currently based in Paris, France
Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (716) via Instagram
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 – In Time of War – Carolyn Forché
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘In Time of War’ by Carolyn Forch. On April 28, 1950, Carolyn Forch was born in Detroit, Michigan. She studied at Justin Morrill College, Michigan State University and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University and a PhD from Newcastle University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom. A poet, memoirist, translator, and editor, Forché’s books of poetry include In the Lateness of the World (Penguin, 2020), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the American Book Award; Blue Hour (HarperCollins, 2003), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Angel of History (HarperCollins, 1994), which received the…
Mobile Photogrpraphy & Art – Saturday Poetry ‘A Walk Round the Park’ by Sandra Lim with Milena Mastandrea @mirea17
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘A Walk Round the Park’ by Sandra Lim. She is the author of The Wilderness (W. W. Norton, 2014), selected by Louise Glück for the 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and a previous collection of poetry, Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). She is an associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “This is one of a series of love poems that are a part of a larger manuscript about desire and reckoning. There’s something about a love affair that makes you decide you’re going to see things through for the sake of…
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…
