Poetrykitchen - poetry & music by Maroula Blades & George Henry

The new Abridged Magazine (UK) issue 0 -1816 features art and poetry. I am chuffed that my poem titled "Breaking Free" is tucked between its pages. The issue is in print and online here for free: https://www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1816/.
Editorial: Abridged 0 - 1816
1816 went down in history as ‘the year without a summer’. Climate abnormalities, severely dropped global temperatures and the coldest Summer in Europe on record. Evidence suggests a ‘volcanic winter’ – the residue of eruptions blocking out the light of the sun. Not a natural season in the yearly cycle, then, but the disruptive imposition of another, out of place. A knotted dialogue between extremes, surprisingly intimate, entwined in cause/effect. Hot and cold, fire and frost. The results included a sprawling chain of harvest failure, famine, disease and floods. It was a year of darkness, uncertainty and death. It quaked (and quakes still) with the warning that we – even we – are fragile and contingent. Our day-to-day is a delicate equilibrium: small shifts in the balance of our world can amplify to the apocalyptic. Moreover, this world we call ‘ours’ – that we think we have tethered with language – we share with things and systems whose significance is more enormous than we can see from our particular and fragmented perspective, that we can’t hold in our hand but are actually caught up inside. Climate. Time. Fear. Need. We retreat to safe places, but we can never stand entirely outside of the weather.
1816 is an uncanny anchor of the Gothic in more ways than one. In the gloom of its summerless-summer, the seeds of our most enduring ‘monsters’ were germinated. The story goes that Lord Byron and friends gathered together in a Villa on the edge of Lake Geneva as the rain fell and the darkness persisted. Trapped indoors, they told stories to capture their fears. This was the birthplace of the modern vampire – a figure of treacherous social charm, manipulative intelligence, culture and thirst – via John William Polidori’s story The Vampyre. And – appearing in a first early draft – of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus – the scientist and the so-called ‘monster’ he creates then despises, pursues then abandons then pursues, in a tale where creator and created become perpetually entangled in a cycle of questions about knowledge, responsibility and monstrosity, beginning with the fire of life and ending with a circling chase around a landscape of ice.
Conjured from the stuff of death along the paths of ambition, drawing dark maps across sublime climates and histories beyond our mastery, more intelligent and complex than anticipated, disappearing in one place and erupting unexpectedly and catastrophically in another, three steps ahead of us, finding us in our homes and the ‘safety’ of society, threatening us not simply with malice but with need, in which we can’t but recognise ourselves, like winters bursting, latent, into summers, these ‘monsters’ spoke to the deepest part of us. Ever since 1816 they have returned and returned, renewed and remade, in our collective imagination, the faces we’ve given our greatest (ecological) fears.
In a chilling twist of timeliness, this issue speaks out from the close of Summer 2023 – a season that has stunned, displaced and terrified so many of us, laying waste to the complacent familiarities of leisure with ‘abnormalities’ and ‘extremes’ of climate, at a time when many are looking for something or someone to blame, and many are wondering if we’re already inside an ending, when (as it happens) the human story behind the first atomic bomb is the must-see blockbuster of the season. Not to mention in a weird echo of Mary Shelley we birth a plastic glam homunculus as a champion of contemporary feminism. And inevitably we see the mob with the online torches and pitchforks in response. We’re not sure if it’s comedy or tragedy. Probably both.
Abridged 0-1816 looks back to the atmosphere and echoes of an uncanny and fateful year in human and environmental history, inviting poetry and art that speaks to weather, fear, ecological vulnerability, the threats and uncertainty of darkness, and the question of where, why and with what consequences we make monsters.

On Saturday, November 18, all nominees, winners, and participants take to the stage for the last time, and the 2023 Amadeu Antonio Prize ceremony ends with a roaring round of applause!

In the Tagesschau: "With 'Stones in Symphony', Maroula Blades has created a comprehensive, hybrid work of poetry, prose, art, and photography, in which poverty, identity, discrimination, and racism are addressed."
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/brandenburg/rbb-amadeu-antonio-preis-2023-in-eberswalde-vergeben-100.html?fbclid=IwAR0s8rv62r7-VfsWosgMUmk9Xvwkfk4hFM6NY-b5A_3LB8-NjjEnEdlLDqw

Here's a video portrait of my project, which was supported by "Zur Linde".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O19n5WcfXbY

I had a super time at the Amadeu Antonio Prize ceremony, where I received 2nd place. Many thanks to Jörg, who also deserves a part of this award. It was lovely that my son, Shane, joined us for drinks and food. Congratulations to Nnenna Onuoha, who was the winner. And congratulations to David Blum, 3rd, and the other nominees.

Such an honour! I am nominated again for the Amadeu Antonio Prize, this time for my interdisciplinary project “Stones in Symphony”. The project includes my poetry, prose, flash fiction, art, photography, and soundscapes composed by Joerg and me. The award primarily targets professional artists and students who live in Germany. The judges received 347 submissions.
I wish all the other nominees good luck.
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The Amadeu Antonio Prize is awarded by the City of Eberswalde and the Amadeu Antonio Foundation.
A main prize of 3000 euros and two second prizes of 1000 euros are awarded. In addition, an outstanding initiative that has rendered outstanding services to the culture of remembrance will be awarded the Lars Day Prize.
This year, the following are nominated for the prize:
- Maroula Blades "Stones in Symphony" (Interdisciplinary Project)
- David Blum "Kollektorgang" (Literature)
- Ayala Shoshana Guy "I will take your shadow" (Visual Arts)
- Tuğsal Moğul "AND NOW HANAU" (Theatre)
- Nguyen Anh Tu Pham "Soapy Faggy" (visual arts)
- Nnenna Onuoha "Rosenfelde" (visual arts).
The moderator and radio journalist Susan Zare (Deutschlandfunk, among others) will guide you through the evening.
More info. here: https://www.amadeu-antonio-stiftung.de/.../amadeu-antonio/

Many thanks to The Sunlight Press for nominating my photograph “Foggy Woodland” for the 2024 Best of Net Awards in the art section. And congratulations to all the other nominees.
From The Sunlight Press
"Today we are excited to announce our Best of Net nominees in writing and arts. Thrilled for all!"

https://www.thesunlightpress.com/2023/10/08/from-the-editors-desk-october-2023-news/?fbclid=IwAR2NFhiO3F5jV2ir9clSMxVbJ3eT_qVt6crtMaarEfS2cPqjAwL7-xEts9w

From the Editors’ Desk: October 2023 News Today we announce Best of Net nominees and other news!

I will have a short story published in an anthology titled "Crimeucopia - Rule Britannia - Britannia Waves The Rules", released by Murderous-Ink Press on September 12, 2023, and I’m thrilled about it! I can’t wait to read the other authors’ tales in the book.
A note from the editor
This anthology, we hope, contains short stories that, were you to cut them in half with a knife, they would flash you their Union Jacks without a moment's hesitation.
Rule Britannia - Britannia Waves The Rules features fiction from Daniel Marshall Wood, Gerald Elias, S. E. Bailey, Alexander Frew, Kelly Lewis, Carew S. Bartley, Madeleine McDonald, Edward Lodi, Michaele Jordan, J. Aquino, David Rich, Kelly Zimmer, Sharon Richards, T. K. Howell, Maroula Blades, David William Johnson and Harris Coverley
The fiction ranges from general British cosy, through Harry Palmer and George Smiley territory, before going deep into very British Modern Noir. And as with all of these anthologies, we hope you'll find something that you immediately like, as well as something that takes you out of your comfort zone - and puts you into a completely new one. In other words, in the spirit of the Murderous Ink Press motto:
You never know what you like until you read it.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crim.../dp/1909498505/ref=sr_1_1...

This poem is published in the recently released Abridged 0-94, 'Severin'. In the magazine, I have two poems printed between the pages.
You can read the latest issue here: https://www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-94-severin/

Abridged 0-94 'Severin' is released with five wonderful covers. It is published by Abridged Magazine in the UK. I'm happy to post that I have two poems in this issue titled "My Time is Almost Spent" and "Cover Up". When the online version of the magazine is out, I'll post a link for those who are interested in reading and seeing the great works within. Until then, if you're curious, you can read about the interesting theme 'call' for submissions.

From the editor
‘Kiss the boot of shiny, shiny leather/Shiny leather in the dark/Tongue of thongs, the belt that does await you/Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart… Severin, Severin, down on your bended knee, taste the whip of love not given lightly, taste the whip, now bleed for me.’ (The Velvet Underground)

‘Masochism’ – after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, author of Venus in Furs, famously abridged in the Velvet Underground song of the same name – is the tendency to derive pleasure from pain or humiliation. As such, it blurs the lines, loops one extreme back onto the other like a tail into a mouth. Carnivalesque? Oxymoronic? Perverse? The word ‘masochism’ voices an underlying ambiguity that entangles experiences we think of as opposites, at least in the light of day. We rely on this opposition like a language. But opposites often moonlight as lovers. What we understand of ourselves is always half in shadow. Want is a labyrinth, riddled with blindspots.

Suffer: hurt, ache, bear, tolerate, permit. Dominance: control over someone, or the state of being controlled. Severe: strict, unsparing.

S*M. Dominance & Submission. Bo***ge & Discipline. We think of s*x. But what about elsewhere? What about our other pursuits of happiness and their grey areas? The contradictions of the erotic are easily marginalised (kinky, fantasy, ‘behind closed doors’), but pay attention: is s*x ever separate? The mechanism of masochism refracts. Negotiations between pain and pleasure are dizzyingly complicated in many parts of our lives. Not just s*xual: cultural. ‘Masochism’ represents – holds – a paradox, an abject muddling, a disorientating uncertainty that echoes about the dark corners of society. Sometimes it’s framed so close, so front-and-centre that we lose our capacity to recognise or question it. Discipline. Submission. No pain, no gain. Austerity. Penance. Catharsis. Torture p**n. Game shows. Domination and suffering are not things we consistently avoid, and pleasure is not something we straightforwardly seek.

For instance: Why is it that an embrace of punishment still feels like an essential step on the path to redemption, religious or otherwise? Why can the smack of firm government offer comfort? Why are agony and achievement so casually intertwined? What does suffering – witnessed, endured, inflicted, ignored, idealised, or over-familiarised – do to the boundary between ourselves and others? What does accepting domination – whatever form that takes – relieve us of? How are our proximities to suffering and involvement systems of dominance (tiny and enormous) warped in the rear-view mirror of contemporary culture? And underneath it all, how much do fear and desire really have to do with each other?

Abridged is looking for poetry exploring the need to punish and be punished.

Today, my poem "Ms. Betty" is published in the Berlin Stadtsprachem Magazine.
This evening at 8 p.m., Novilla = PREMIERE: stadtsprachem magazine #25!
Texts by 30 Berlin authors and translators
Good luck to all the authors presenting their works at the launch.
More info. here: www.stadtsprachen.de

This morning, I'm happy to write that Sunlight Press published two of my photographs taken in Potsdam, Germany. Click on the photo to see the work.
https://www.thesunlightpress.com/2023/06/11/photography-by-maroula-blades-4/?fbclid=IwAR3k4KJ4mIZ0jDbpIT93PMHFnicZfh13DbSyS8OJKYFu6SeZPg2Ao_8Kpho

Photography by Maroula Blades Maroula Blade’s images open a week of photography today.

My flash fiction book "The World in an Eye", released by Chapeltown Books in 2020 in the UK, is posted on the Vestal Review (the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet) website.

New Flash Fiction Books - Vestal Review See submission guidelines. Disclaimer: Vestal Review does not have access to the books themselves but simply has received notice of publication. ThoughContinue readingNew Flash Fiction Books

I had a wonderful evening presenting with Jörg a short multimedia poetry reading at the Brecht-Haus Untergrund: die multiliterarische Keller-Revue in Berlin. Also invited by Martin Jankowski were the authors Kirsten Fuchs and Clemens Schittko. We read three short sets each. In my first set, during the last poem, ‘The Journey’, there is a small technical glitch that occurred during the live stream; a verse is missing, but the rest of the video runs smoothly.

Brecht-Haus Untergrund – die multiliterarische Keller-Revue Teil der Reihe: Keller-RevueMit Kirsten Fuchs, Clemens Schittko und Maroula BladesGastgeber: Martin Jankowski© Eine Veranstaltung des Literaturforums im Brec...

Released today is the new Abridged Magazine 0_93 Terminus. I’m happy to share that I have a poem published titled “Nameless”. In the magazine, the poem is illustrated with a photograph by Mark Chapman, not the one below, which is also in the issue.
Available in print and online: https://www.abridged.zone
A note from the editor
Abridged 0-93: 'Terminus'
'Terminus is the end of the line. The point where the train tracks stop, or the currency changes, or the signs start bearing names you don’t know. Picture an emptying station; an unlit shelter; a layby at the mouth of a terra incognita (desert, estate, it’s all the same). Even in the sparsity of margin, something marks the edge: a line in the sand between one territory and another, the bracket we live in. This is as far as the bus will take you, where the choice is get off or go home again. Or maybe you’ve missed your chance: Sorry, not in service anymore… Maybe you’re going to have to choose between hopeless waiting and walking on into the dark. With both comes the chill of uncertainty, a new sensitivity to the strange and its threats. More than ever, you want to go home, and home feels so far behind you....'

Maroula Blades on using to own and celebrate her identity as a and .

Poetrykitchen - poetry & music by Maroula Blades & George Henry

I’m happy and grateful that my photograph has been chosen by Sunlight Press to end the year on.

https://www.thesunlightpress.com/2022/12/15/photography-by-maroula-blades-3/?fbclid=IwAR11seFZ7ntbklckDJFmAAFTliB26xfHKnNq2GzRsYTFVjyuxzyW-otCvRE

Photography by Maroula Blades Happy Holidays! Our 2022 publication year ends with a stunning photograph from Maroula Blades.

This week's been kind to me. 🙂 My prose poem "There Is And Will Only Be Stone" is published in the fresh released Abridged 0-92 'The Violet Hour' opposite Rob Hann's photograph "Wonder Valley, California".
Read Abridged here @ https://lnkd.in/esCh2amt for free!
Supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Just released, the new Aji magazine Issue: On Silence, where I have a photograph published. You can read it online for free or purchase a copy at http://www.ajimagazine.com
A note from the editor: "Every poem, story, essay, photograph, or work of graphic art in this issue invites readers to consider alternative experiences and ways of being, coaxes us out of our day-to-day normal into someone else’s world. Pieces in this issue will inspire laughter, pathos, and perhaps deep reflection. In a world where writers, musicians, and artists are being silenced, threatened, imprisoned, even killed, we are so thankful for all of you, for the communities from which you come, for the unique perspectives you share with Aji, a small magazine, to some degree a speck on the stage of contemporary national art and literature." - Erin O'Neill Armendare

I’m happy to post that I have a formal poem published in the new Bacopa Literary Review (U.S.A.) The magazine launched yesterday, which will be soon sold from online platforms.
My poem: “Solitary Musings”
If you’re interested, here’s a recent review: https://www.mainstreetdailynews.com/local-living/gnvs-bacopa-literary-review?fbclid=IwAR0g3z-SG7Emf8EQ1WRZFow4onwKRcOvwOn8E1GHDaeE6Eg4MLGsz7r0MQE

https://twitter.com/ACNIWriting/status/1588990786959450112?s=20&t=J6ULHHvZyBt4EwWgIZpz-g&fbclid=IwAR3EfYG0jYivPiHoDtyoOuf_vBHx23wUPLRdN13f3edjeCFe8Ee1yjvfjUs
It’s nice that my poem “Hexagram 37” (Bagua poem based on I-Ching) was mentioned by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland with these other poets and their works.
“Each one to be trodden into the calcium of themselves.”





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I'm thrilled to have a review of my flash fiction collection "The World in an Eye", published by Chapeltown Books, in the current Ambit 248 The War Issue. This issue is filled with poignant works. Many thanks to the editor, Kirsty Allison.
"The World in an Eye" is available here and other online platforms:
https://www.amazon.com/.../191054.../ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0...

It's a pleasure to be published among other women of colour in this new anthology "Nonwhite and Woman".

Description
"Nonwhite and Woman celebrates how women of color live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own. The anthology's title is from Lucille Clifton's luminous poem, "won't you celebrate with me," which serves as the anthology's epigraph."
Available from - Bookshop: https://bit.ly/nww-bookshop
Barnes & Noble: https://bit.ly/nww-BN & Amazon: https://amzn.to/37rtW4u

It’s nice to have my photo titled “Motions in Sand No. 2” published this week in the online magazine Oyster River Pages - issue 6. ORP publishes stories, poetry, images, and essays. If you have time, check out the magazine.
https://www.oysterriverpages.com/visu.../circles-in-the-sand

Selling for only for £5.10, my book "The World in an Eye". It would be lovely if you could purchase a copy. Your support would be much appreciated.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Eye-Maroula-Blades/dp/1910542563/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1603304478&sr=8-8

I had a super evening last night, performing with a talented group of poets in the “Blood of a Poet”, a spoken word event at the Rosinen BAR THF in Berlin. It isn’t every day you have a plane behind you. :-) A special thanks to Danielle Depicciotto for bringing us all together and to DJ Ragu for laying down the tracks. Two poets I haven’t seen for over ten years. It was a pleasure to catch up with them.

Come out and join us, this coming Friday, for an evening of spoken word and music.
Tickets here: https://shop.ticketpay.de/ABDJCQU9?fbclid=IwAR1na5vNDcwqH-reJPpC6g87pBbQUuRlH_jQFfX3JXoo8PBkRjGMqadHOXI

This week's publications of photographs in the Superpresent Magazine (US), Summer Issue -Signs & Symbols, and a poem in the Abridged magazine (UK), illustrated by Alexandra Rose Howland's strong artwork, puts a big smile on my face.
You can buy Superpresent or read it here: https://indd.adobe.com/view/b37aa0fb-8193-4b12-b99e-6f5b5d3649bf
Free online issue of Abridged 0-82: Axis: https://www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-82-axis-submission-call/?fbclid=IwAR3NMtNa1Y5pDxrkfX0Ibd_fvv8vRwf6CsglAog721F0E88ll5M0s0UefWE

Six poetry extracts from the performance at the Humboldt University ceremony for Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois on the 1st July 2022.
Joerg Heinrich (aka George Henry) and Maroula Blades composed, produced and performed all the music.

Maroula Blades - multimedia poetry reading for the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial plaque (Humboldt Uni Bln) Multimedia poetry reading "Bridging Divides" by Maroula Blades for the unveiling ceremony:W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial plaque at the Humboldt University Berlin on...

Recently released, "Black Visions": A Jeffrey "Boosie" Bolden Anthology. I have two artworks in this anthology:
Binary Code No. 1, acrylic on canvas, 60 cm x 80 cm, 2019
Binary Code No. 3, acrylic on canvas, 80 cm x 120 cm, 2019

In association with the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Chatham University and The Fourth River Literary Journal, editors Samantha Edwards, Caitlyn Hunter, Nicole Lourette, and Cedric Rudolph, created "Black Visions": A Jeffrey "Boosie" Bolden Anthology
This anthology honours the poet Boosie's legacy of producing the unexpected, fresh, and lyrical.

You can hear some written works from the Black Visions launch at: https://youtu.be/QFS_XHoOUeo

About Boosie Bolden:
Jeffrey “Boosie” Bolden was born in San Diego, CA, but he lived various places over the course of his life, from New Orleans to Tennessee to Hawaii. Bolden was an alumnus of the Chatham University MFA program. During his time at Chatham, he edited for The Fourth River and earned his MFA in Fiction. Boosie refused to write prose or poetry restricted by genre, and instead pushed himself to create hybrid flows fusing prose with rap. His mixtape-memoir Wolves was published by Tolson Books in November 2020. Bolden passed away in June 2020.

The new Lolwe - Issue 5 is now online. I have a series of photographs titled, "Yearning" and a short text, explaining how the work came about, tucked between its virtual pages. "Oh, happy day!"
The issue is guest-edited by Zambian writer Mali Kambandu, the American poet Willie Lee Kinard III and the Lisbon-based Bissau-Guinean writer Yovanka Paquete Perdigão.
Lolwe is an online magazine that publishes fiction, literary criticism, essays, photography, and poetry.

My photograph was chosen to be made into a billboard. I don't know where it will hang in Berlin. If any of you happen to see it on your travels through the city, please let me know. Thanks in advance!

Today, I received nice news! Three of my photographs are published in the new Stonecrop Review,
Issue 5: Flora.
You can read it for free here: https://www.stonecropreview.com/issues/issue-5-flora/ Or order a print copy here: https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/2249544
A note from the editor:
From weeds pushing their way up through cracks in the pavement to wildflowers planted along roadsides, from potted plants on your balcony to trees providing shade in the park—Issue 5: Flora brings you writing, art and photography that explores the plants in our urban landscapes. Dive in and read about birds alighting on frozen kumquats, cottonwoods crawling under fences, and the flavor of balcony-grown lemongrass chai.

I’m excited to have a poem published in the Spring edition of The London Reader.

A note from the editor:
London is the city of Shakespeare’s Globe and the birthplace of grime. It is a city of divisions and a city of inequality. It is a city of strangers meeting like marbles in a machine. It is a city packed with pointless jobs at the end of long, cramped commutes. A city stuffed with box rooms, damp and draughty shared accommodations, where strangers share meals standing shoulder-to-shoulder in tight kitchens. London is also the most visited English-language tourist destination. London is a city of millions of long-term and short-term Londoners. A city of royalty, of Lords and Ladies, and a city of landowners and squatters. But London is ever changing.
NEW ISSUE - London Lost
Stories in a Changing City
London Lost features stories, poetry, and art about London and Londoners by Liam Hogan, Morgan Parks, Natasha Bonfield, Rob McClure Smith, Maroula Blades, Alex Zalben, SA MacLeod, Ethan O’Connor, Robin Cantwell, Madeleine McDonald, Janina Aza Karpinska, Barbara Saunders, Susie Aybar, Ruth Holzer, Maija Haavisto, Maximilian Damico, Nick Sweeney, David Winston, Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier, Sasha Saben Callaghan, and Mark Anthony Jarman. In addition Ashley Hickson-Lovence, author of The 392, speaks about capturing a city in fiction.
This issue of the London Reader is our complicated love note to the city we call home: to our packed commutes, to our thin walls and our neighbours on the other side, and yes, even to the tourists standing on Oxford Street, or on the wrong side of the escalator. This volume, like London itself, is more than the sum of its parts. London is a complex mess of tube lines and interconnected stories, but it’s also more than that.
London is anyone. London is everyone.
Find out more at www.LondonReader.uk/LondonLost
Read the digital edition right now for FREE
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or on PDF anywhere in the world: www.patreon.com/LondonReader
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I’m delighted to have a photograph published, illustrating Alina Stefanescu’s poem in the spring issue of The Ilanot Review. You can read the publication for free at: http://www.ilanotreview.com/

Editor’s Note

Welcome to “Earth!” These electronic pages are windows into China, Ukraine, Chiapas, Nigeria, England, Czechia, Germany, and the United States. Robin Young’s front cover suggests the worlds beneath our feet, over our heads, and in the seams between our footsteps; while David A. Goodrum’s back cover image flows at the juncture of earth, sea, and air. Visual art has always been integral to our pages; this time, we’ve tried to give even more space to the strange and beautiful images that come our way by pairing some of them with poems and stories.

In this issue, Sarah Sassoon and Edmée Lepercq create cartographies of Babylon and London via dates and figs. We often find ourselves up in the air, where weather happens, where souls of the living and dead unite. We see the destructive forces eating at the Earth from within, alongside the generative. We mingle in the elements themselves, the ones we hold inside us, the ones we give birth to. We contemplate nature, the idyllic and the terrifying. Indeed, this is the perfect occasion to celebrate the Bat Mitzvah of Camille T. Dungy’s groundbreaking anthology, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Imagination. Finally, we are grateful to guest poetry editor Lauren Camp for her sensitive and discerning eye.
Marcela Sulak

I am thrilled to have a poem in the new Humanletter NO.06 “Interim” of the Miller-Zillmer Foundation. Curator Danielle De Picciotto. The foundation releases this limited art magazine once a year. If you're interested, you can order your copy here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxCcFIeYfLhKnHiIgA-F_flCtlzQPgl-7J8F3yyIe5C7xKtQ/viewform?fbclid=IwAR0Bqqp2AjB-lXeP9hWms7lKPv2L4R7MRwIF6dOM1hoeJm7YZQh0aUs2Dj0

Danielle De Picciotto called a couple of friends to do a charity concert next week in Berlin. Andreas Toelke is the chief inspiration for this event; he is at the border non-stop and has already aided thousands. A ticket link below- the fee will go to the Be an Angel account and help them help more desperate people. Please buy a ticket, they are not expensive for the talented artists and even if you cannot make it - please support our cause anyway and buy a ticket for 15€.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2022 AT 9:00 PM UTC+02
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Today, my photograph “Hahneberg (Berlin)” is published in the Reservoir Road Literary Review. The image illustrates Dwaine Rieves poem. Check out the rest of the magazine if you have time; there are gems to be read and seen.
https://www.reservoirroadlit.com/issue-07/abloom?fbclid=IwAR2ERv9JITWX-W83YjdUHlIU-Wr6geVDlxp7dOB3PPNOJLaI6oGX4kgL0fI

"Abloom" by Dwaine Rieves — Reservoir Road Literary Review "Abloom" by Dwaine Rieves is a work of poetry featured in Issue 07 of Reservoir Road Literary Review, accompanied by the photograph “Hahneberg (Berlin)” by Maroula Blades.