orbvs
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Very thankful to @unstamatic for featuring my photo “Downtown Door” 💖
Oct. 2018
Flash fiction by Beatriz Worthy Beatriz is an undergraduate student at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, where she lives with her soul mate, a border collie named Chuck.
Photography by Jonathan May Jonathan May grew up in Zimbabwe as the child of missionaries. He lives and teaches in Memphis, TN, where he served as the inaugural Artist in Residence at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. In addition, May has taught writing as therapy for people with eating disorders. Read more at https://memphisjon.wordpress.com/
They put a Jeff Koons sculpture up at The Dixon in Memphis.
I went to Iceland by myself from 18 July through 26 July. I recommend everyone go on a solo trip if you are able.
Pictures in order:
1) Me in the airplane bathroom on the way there. Why not?
2) From the top of Helgafell. Nice mountain hike.
3) Recreated Viking ship you could walk around in at the Viking Museum.
4) Stekkjarkot, a peat/sod house lived in until the 1940s
5) Graffiti on Laugavegur in Reykjavik
6) I received two hand-poke tattoos from Habbe Nero at Icelandic Tattoo Corp.
7) Dinner at Dill Restaurant. I’m eating beef cheek and rutabaga there.
8) The gorgeous opera/music hall Harpa in downtown Reykjavik. Made me cry.
9) Me at Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower on Viðey Island
10) Afangar, a set of basalt columns around Viðey Island by Richard Serra
Honored to have a poem in this amazing anthology in memory of and dedicated to the beautiful souls who died in the shooting at Pulse Nightclub on 12 June 2016.
A poem of mine over at @txtobjx -- such a lovely journal <3
The beautiful room is empty
Where is the body that continues to live after reading through the prayers of childhood?
Where is the body that empties itself every morning, hoping to remain empty?
Where is the body that passes by the doorway to the beautiful room, wringing
its terrible hands, consumed with entering? Where is the body that never forgets?
Jonathan May 07 22 16
Afternoon coffee, 1949. My great-grandmother is second from left.
The Gulf Coast. August 1949.
I read some poetry last night for the @impossiblelanguage poetry series in Memphis, TN, with two other wonderful poets from the Northeast.
1. Impossible Language banner
2. Me reading poems
3. Douglas Piccinnini reading poems
4. Chris Hosea reading poems, with projection art by Jane V. Hsu
It’s our last reading of the season! Don’t miss these amazing poets. BE HERE. THERE WILL BE A PROJECTOR. DOUGLAS PICCINNINI was born in New York City in 1982. He has been awarded residencies by The Vermont Studio Center, Art Farm in Marquette, NE and, The Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia. In 2014, he was selected by Dorothea Lasky as a winner of the Summer Literary Seminars for Poetry. He is the author of Story Book: a novella, and a collection of poems, Blood Oboe.
CHRIS HOSEA was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1973, and his first book of poems, Put Your Hands In, was selected by John Ashbery as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. His work as a visual artist includes Over Time Across Space, with Kim Bennett, which was the subject of a 2015 full-gallery exhibition at Transmitter in Brooklyn, New York. His poems have appeared in 6x6, The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, Web Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, New American Review, Prelude, White Wall Review, and VOLT. He lives in Brooklyn. JONATHAN MAY grew up in Zimbabwe as the child of missionaries. He lives and teaches in Memphis, TN. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in [PANK], Superstition Review, Shark Reef, Duende, One, Winter Tangerine Review, and Rock & Sling. He’s recently translated the play Dreams by Günter Eich into English. Read more at http://memphisjon.wordpress.com/
My grandparents at (her) senior prom. South Side High School. Memphis, TN. 1954. They both look so beautiful.
The Alamo. Taken by my great-grandmother on vacation. 1980.
My great-grandmother, on vacation in Austria. Early 1980s.
