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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 1d

The artwork for the section 'Succession: Young Authors & Artists' was done by Iranian photographer, storyteller, and poet Zohreh Zadbood.

➡️ The piece is titled 'Color in Wind,' in our latest edition. aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

🔗 Discover more of her creative work at zohrehzadbood.com

Bird kite in flight. 'Color in Wind' by Zohreh Zadbood.

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 4d

The cover artwork for the latest edition of About Place Journal is titled 'A song for you/Flight' and was created by Joseph Laurro. Laurro holds a BFA from SUNY New Paltz and an MA from Brooklyn College, and teaches art in NYC public schools. #LitMag #Art aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social for another great issue! Here are two new ones from me: aboutplacejournal.org/issues/on-fr...

Lesley Wheeler – On Freedom – About Place Journal

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David Kopacz, MD @drkopacz.bsky.social · 6d

Chris Smith & I have an article in About Place
"Freedom & Free Doom: Reflections on Agency, Doom, and Hope"
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#freedom #doom #hope #agency
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Chris A Smith & David R Kopacz – On Freedom – About Place Journal

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 7d

The fall issue of About Place Journal, On Freedom is out today!! The poetry, prose, visual art speak to so many of the freedoms we see, feel and include in our hopes.

➡️ Issue Eds: DJ Lee & Michael McDermott with Assistant Eds: Rachel Sanchez & Jacob Klaung
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On Freedom – About Place Journal

“On Freedom” features poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, video, and hybrid works that question what freedom means in our turbulent world. The pieces in this issue explore freedom's dual...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 9d

When I stand before
my mirror, ready

to attack my tangled locks,
I see dozens of well-groomed
soldiers with purple picks

stowed safely in kit bags
as they attack. I see
the enemy striking back.

From 'Combing My Hair,
Operation Desert Storm'

- Jill Barrie

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Military personnel. Photo from Unsplash.

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 10d

There are times when I fear the distance of the past
& sit with the collapse. Forget who I am
while in an office too far above the soil.
I sit at a desk writing words – insisting
to find meaning elsewhere on a page

- simóne j banks

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simóne j banks – Careful/Care-full Collaboration – About Place Journal

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 19d

How do our movements create resonance(s) between us? asks issue editor Dr. Mita Mahato.

➡️Resonance. I am thinking about insects. Their buzzing, winging, rubbing, clicking, scurrying fill my ears. At its most fundamental, “resonance” means sound again.

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · 27d

-Our Table - Orchestra - Marulas

Three poems from 'body,' a #poetry manuscript by Erica Waters "challenges 'myths of exceptional individualism as constructed within colonial and capitalist contexts.'”

Waters is an Assistant Teaching Professor at CSU.
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Trees with sun shining through. Image from Pixabay.

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Poetess Priestess — Annie Finch @anniefinch.com · 29d

My Poem Commemorating 9-11

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“The Naming: A Chant”: Memorial Poem for 9-11

Inspired by Meredith Bergmann’s sculpture memorializing the victims of 9/11, and written to be read aloud, this poem was first performed by Annie at the sculpture’s installation in the Cathedral of St...

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · Sep 8

We’re already all here, the lot of us,
more than the sum of our parts,

oneness not sameness, diversity
that spins. Shared meal persists,

even when we trust too much in knives,
even when we break dishes, spill wine
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From 'Our Table'
by Erica Waters

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People around a dinner table. Photo by Zach Reiner on Unsplash.

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · Sep 3

Shelter from the Storms: Quiet Collaborations

Renga 1
Storm Clouds
2/2/24

Storm clouds loom heavy
across distant horizons —
ominous portents.
Wind and lightning fly fearsome
as bountiful rain destroys.

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➡️ Dana JS Washington & Janet N. Ryan

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Storm clouds. Photo by Paul Zoetemeijer on Unsplash.

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · Aug 31

Mounds of fruit melt in the tired Friday afternoon,
and our feet enliven,
dance on fermentation grapes,
bubbling juices coloring
the toes warm,
yellow colors;
the soles yelp
like child-play

From 'An Ode on Wine Grapes' by Austin Thornton

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · Aug 25

Nancy Takacs is an award winning poet and the author of eight collections of poetry.

➡️ Discover more of her work in the latest edition of our literary journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · Aug 25

I am like this beetle,
tentative and a little blue,
or is that the reflection of sky
on her back or is it
the reflection of my cup
as she wanders toward
my warm hand?

From 'A Whispering Beetle' by Nancy Takacs

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Blue Beetle. Photo by James Wainscoat on Unsplash

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · Aug 25

I am like this beetle,
tentative and a little blue,
or is that the reflection of sky
on her back or is it
the reflection of my cup
as she wanders toward
my warm hand?

From 'A Whispering Beetle' by Nancy Takacs

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Shot in stop motion after Randall’s motion was stopped due to hip surgery fall 2020, this work reveals and revels in the “broken” body, a body replete with the markings of its 40-year career in the dance trenches..."

Candy Dish, in our latest edition.

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · Aug 22

"my half millimeter of being has evolved for centuries
to withstand the prodding of this place, has preserved under the pressure

of even the lowest ocean."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Tardigrade by Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman (2023 @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/4trran8m

Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman – The More-Than-Human World – About Place Journal

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Black Earth Institute @blackearthinst.bsky.social · Aug 17

"Throughout the process of co-creating Reckoning and Release: The Blessing of the Fleets by Auset, I came to understand the profound need to evolve beyond a Eurocentric model of the goddess."

➡️ Discover more about this collaboration in the latest edition of @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social.

About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · Aug 17

Reckoning and Release: The Blessing of the Fleets by Auset, A Ritual Performance Meditation in the Kemetic Month of Parmuti

- by Lucia Pavone (Sciarpa Paxton) & Desiree Mwalimu-Banks

Watch & listen ➡️ in the latest edition of About Place Journal.

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · Aug 17

Reckoning and Release: The Blessing of the Fleets by Auset, A Ritual Performance Meditation in the Kemetic Month of Parmuti

- by Lucia Pavone (Sciarpa Paxton) & Desiree Mwalimu-Banks

Watch & listen ➡️ in the latest edition of About Place Journal.

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · Aug 14

In the stories my people tell, crickets are the old ones who stay up all night recounting the whole history of the world. The chirping of crickets, our mystics say, is the first sound you hear after you leave your body.

From ‘Uhini Nēnē Pele by K. Nuernberger
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · Aug 7

BIO: Lisa Novick is a grant writer & educator who was on LA Mayor Garcetti’s Biodiversity Expert Council & Urban Ecosystems Working Group & outreach & edu. dir. at @theodorepayne.bsky.social…Her writing’s in @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social, @skyislandjournal.bsky.social, @wildroofjournal.bsky.social…

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · Aug 10

If I were a winter crane fly, my blood would have antifreezing chemical properties. Should light flicker across the eyes at the top of my head, suggesting the air is sunny and just above freezing, something would come alive in me.

From 'Umwelten'

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About Place Journal @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social · Aug 4

What is that song you’re singing into my poem,
each note dripping paint the hue of mourning?
Some poems are a tear-splattered canvas. Everyone
has an image or note that lures them home,
that recreates their own joyful evening or sad morning
into song.

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The Song We’re Singing by Karen Elias. Abstract colours with spaces for poems and images.

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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · Aug 2

For my afternoon friends. 👇🏻

Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · Aug 2

Truly grateful to have a poem in the new issue of @pictura.bsky.social ! Thanks to everyone at the journal for including my work alongside so many brilliant artists!🙌🏻 https://picturajournal.com/issue-four/poetry-issue-four/jack-b-bedell/

Jack B. Bedell - pictura journal

Jack B. Bedell's work has appeared in work has appeared in HAD, Heavy Feather, Pidgeonholes, The Shore, Okay Donkey, EcoTheo, and elsewhere.

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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social · Aug 2

I did a quick interview to go with the poem, too. 👇🏻 https://picturajournal.com/interviews/jack-b-bedell-interview/

Jack B. Bedell - pictura journal

Jack B. Bedell is Professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University.

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