Poetry 📓and Photography 📸 by JJZ. Explorations worldwide and within. Trying to be heard, stirred, and perhaps cured by life's many hidden images, and the written-spoken word.
On this Ash Wednesday I find myself in deep contemplation of my own mortality and individual purpose. Through writing, conversation, prayer, meditation, sharing and study I have been exposed to the darkest parts of myself as well as those parts which fight to shine through. Thank you to those precious ones who have helped me navigate sacred space and atonement along the way. . I am eternally grateful to chosen family who’ve sat with me in silence, worship and social gathering to help grind through the refinement process in hopes of glimpses at sanctification. The ones who’ve asked and answered the hard questions. The ones who’ve fought the good fight and continue to do so. The ones who see love for the action verb that it is. . . . . . #poetry #poetrycommunity #poets #poems #poet #poem #nevadapoetry #nevadapoets #biggestlittlepoets #spokenword #spokenwordpoetry #spokenwordpoets #spokenwordartist #writingcommunity #renoarts #renoartscene #spokenword #biggestlittlecity #reno #renonv #beyondtheneon #battlebornpoets #battlebornpoetry #sidewayseightprojects #sidewayseightpoetry #jessejameszpoet #weeklyopenmic #openmic #poetryopenmic #renopoetlaureate
Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Ontario, Canada. She was raised in Sydney, Australia, and is based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim queer Bangladeshi, she is interested in the margins, liminality, otherness, and the mercurial nature of being. Her work has pioneered a refreshing and renewed conversation about wellness, contemporary Islam, degrowth and queer identities and has appeared in The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Vice, Village Voice, and others.
This study is not meant to serve as an exhaustive account of this amazing writer’s work. It is meant to serve as a sample platter which will encourage others to seek out more for themselves in their own time. Please visit the personal website above to further support Fariha Róisín’s body of work. You will be happy you did.
I had the opportunity to share this piece at BOHEMIA NIGHT at @brukatheatre last night as a part of their annual Theatre and New Works Festival (13th) . As a poet it was beautiful to share the stage with dancers, comedians, musicians, mimes, actors, and other poets. I love this festival every year. I hope you enjoy it as well. . . . . . #poetry #poetrycommunity #poets #poems #poet #poem #nevadapoetry #nevadapoets #biggestlittlepoets #spokenword #spokenwordpoetry #spokenwordpoets #spokenwordartist #writingcommunity #renoarts #renoartscene #spokenword #biggestlittlecity #reno #renonv #beyondtheneon #battlebornpoets #battlebornpoetry #sidewayseightprojects #sidewayseightpoetry #jessejameszpoet #weeklyopenmic #openmic #poetryopenmic #renopoetlaureate
I used to train dogs for a living but this majestic creature has taught me more than I could ever know. His presence is irreplaceable. His spirit is untamed. His being is beautiful. Finn Bomani Leroy Jenkins Zigmac was born 1/29/2014 by our estimation (though he may be older) It’s always hard to tell when one has lived the life of an adopted refugee as he has. Since none of us knows the days in a life, we’re trying to fill our days with as much life as possible. For Finn that looks like heading to Lake Tahoe to soak in its healing waters and capping off the evening with some fresh French fries from Char Pit. If you’re reading this I wish you his kind of joy. I wish you his abundance in life. I wish you his kind of love. Adventure is out there and the Zigmac crew are along for this ride together. 🙏🏽❤️🐾 Y’all please keep our boy Finn in your prayers. Rather than waiting for mid February to attend his annual wellness exam, God tugged at my heart today (Wednesday, 12/27/23) to take him to the emergency vet to check up on his intermittent cough and laborious breathing. Our fur baby has full blown lung cancer which undoubtedly started in his throat region. It has spread far enough that we’re only concerned with comfort at this point unless God sees fit to heal him from within. (I’ve already laid hands on him while sobbing profusely and prayed for exactly that upon returning home from Blue Pearl.) He has given us everything a creature can give and I feel helpless to give him anything besides steroid tablets dipped in creamy Jif peanut butter. I love you all. God is good. Lord please help me to be the person my dog thinks I am. Lord please heal our Finn. In Jesus name. Amen.
“There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.” — Rumi
“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
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“No one is immune from substances or mental health issues. And we need to talk about it. We need to talk about losing our children and our family members to it so that others know it’s okay and that it happens and to end the stigma because, the only way we end it is by talking about it and talking about prevention and really supporting others who are in our spot. So, if you need to reach out to me, do that, I’m here.”
Jessica Care Moore is the founder and CEO of Moore Black Press, executive producer of Black WOMEN Rock!, and founder of the literacy-driven, Jess Care Moore Foundation. An internationally renowned poet, playwright, performance artist, and producer, she is the 2019 and 2017 Knight Arts Award Winner, 2016 Kresge Arts Fellow, NAACP Great Expectations Awardee, and an Alain Locke Award recipient from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Moore is the author of The Words Don’t Fit in My Mouth, The Alphabet Verses the Ghetto, Sunlight Through Bullet Holes, and the critically acclaimed Techno Choreopoem, Salt City. Her work has been published in numerous literary collections and she has performed on stages all over the world, including The Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the London Institute for Contemporary Arts. jessica lives and writes in an historic Detroit neighborhood with her son King Thomas.
Moore was born in Detroit on October 28, 1971. Detroit is more known for automobiles and for popular music than for its writing scene, but she was exposed to poetry as a student at the city’s Cody High School. She attended Michigan State University in Lansing and Wayne State University in Detroit, writing for campus newspapers at both schools, but her first experience placing her poetry before a group came later. “I didn’t start reading out loud to strangers until ’94,” she told the Cincinnati City Beat. ” My dad passed and I read a poem and people were very impressed by that.”
I am so thankful to have the friends I do I am so thankful to have the opportunities I have I am so thankful to have God in my life This is a poem of remembrance This is a poem of love This is my heart displayed in the way I most often choose to pray . . . . . #poetry #poems #poem #poets #poet #poetryishealing #poetrycommunity #poetrytherapy #spokenword #Godisgood #spokenwordartist #spokenwordpoetry #performancepoetry #performancepoet #pagepoetry #weeklyopenmic #poetryisnotdead #goldenageofpoetry #communion #poetryinmotion #Jesus #lastsupper #breakingbread #faith #renopoetry #renoartscene #biggestlittlepoets #jessejameszpoet #sidewayseightpoetry #sidewayseightprojects
Anis Mojgani is the current Poet Laureate of Oregon. A two-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam and winner of the International World Cup Poetry Slam, he has been awarded residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, Caldera, AIR Serenbe, The Bloedel Nature Reserve, The Sou’wester, and the Oregon Literary Arts Writers-In-The-Schools program. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Fellowship, Anis has done commissions for the Getty Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum; and his work has appeared on HBO, National Public Radio, and as part of the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day series. His work has appeared in the pages of the NYTimes, Rattle, Platypus, Winter Tangerine, Forklift Ohio, and Bat City Review.
Known for his performances and well regarded for them the world over, Anis has performed at hundreds of universities across the U.S.; festivals around the globe such as the Sydney Writers Festival, Jamaica’s Calabash festival, and Seoul’s Young Writers Festival; and for audiences as varied as the United Nations and the House of Blues. The author of six books of poetry and the libretto for Sanctuaries, his first children’s book is forthcoming from Holiday House/Neal Porter Books; his latest poetry collection, The Tigers They Let Me, comes out in July 2023. Originally from New Orleans, Anis currently lives in Portland Oregon.
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