The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic
Miah Jeffra
A river's edge, if approached too close, can sweep a body beyond itself. In The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!, Miah Jeffra perfects apostrophe as canticle, a host of heroes beckoning the reader a knee deeper into the waters of another selfhood, Madonna, Mary Shelley, Felix Gonzalez Torres, Plato, and Jeffra's mother among them. At once gossamer and gauze, Jeffra explore
like the path of sound through the air; at every step he pauses and half recedes, and from the retrogressive movement collects the force which carries him onward. The top 3-vote getters in each event will be announced on thursday february 18th!. Jeffra’s new hybrid collection, the fabulous ekphrastic fantastic. Is a book that merges images and essays, art and life, theory and memoir, fragments, flickers, flashes, and reconstructions. With cadenced writing, jeffra offers a fortified feast of memories, personal theories, and lessons.
. It’s been such an honour to be part of the experience that is the uillinn west cork arts centre. Every time you walk in the door, you enter a mesmerising world of the imagination, with new residencies, exhibitions and installations occurring all the time. By the summer i had secured a project i could work on (even in the state i was in) and i started to think about new writing. The poetry society’s fabulous spoken word competition slambassadors wants your poems and raps on the theme of ‘identity’. Slambassadors uk, the national youth slam for 12-18 year olds, has now been running for 14 years, involving as many young people as possible in reading, writing, and performing poetry. Love the poem - a great illustration of how to write lyric poetry. Tammy from north carolina on april 12, 2020: everything about this hub is beautiful.
. . Definition: an analogy is a literary device that helps to establish a relationship based on similarities between two concepts or ideas. By using an analogy we can convey a new idea by using the blueprint of an old one as a basis for understanding. What a fantastic achievement! and many congratulations also to our second prize winner, simon cowdroy from australia, who has had a story commended by us before, and third prize to christina dalcher from the usa, who was also a first prize winner in february 2020. The fabulous ekphrastic fantastic contains over twenty colorful, bite-sized musings that, as the title denotes, are composed as ekphrasis. Each essay is prompted by a piece of visual art, a song or a photograph that have punctuated jeffra’s experience. A fabulous event was held on april 5th, 2020 within the exhibitions at nickle galleries, university of calgary. Thank you margaret christakos and all who wrote and read that evening. All the works read at canopy were inspired by two exhibitions currently open at nickle galleries: each painted document – mark dicey, and walter may: look again author: miah jeffra title: the fabulous ekphrastic fantastic! isbn: 978-1-943977 -73-4 library of congress number: 2020953146 publication. The story is securely lodged in the mind of its narrator, tracing an unnamed character’s thoughts in a superbly modernist style and yet the subject matter is firmly contemporary. The way it deals with the humdrum details of the everyday, like cycling to the supermarket, tidying up the kitchen, putting out the rubbish, is simply fantastic. 20 mar 2020
John le carre’s acceptance speech upon receiving the olaf palme (take the time to read this, it is worth it!) nominees for the 2020 barry awards have been announced. The journal of victorian culture covers all aspects of nineteenth-century society, culture, and the material world including literature, art, performance, politics, science, medicine, technology, lived experience, and ideas. The fabulous ekphrastic fantastic! a reading and book signing by jeremiah jeffra with special guests. The myth of the conqueror, which still haunted napoleon, now seems obsolete. The fantastic vision of an orient more terrifying than exotic is more likely to captivate the reader, who is enthralled even more by the precariousness of an heroic destiny onto which medieval authors merely projected their sober reflections on the vanity of worldly. Her punk rock flavor–her love of the ugly beautiful–the raw, the harsh heart-blistering truth–shines especially bright in the classroom, and in the pages of hunger mountain ’s twenty-third issue, the premiere issue with erin as editor Poems in the ekphrastic mode – by which i mean those that respond to or arise from other creative works, including novels, music, tv documentaries, other poetry – are a relatively small but very interesting subset within the 3000 plus poems in the collected poems of larry eigner (stanford university press, 2010). Hi am an experienced digital marketer with many years in the business and i will be able to help you achieve your digital aims contact me today for a super. I don’t read a ton of hot-off-the-presses contemporary literature, but i suppose i read enough to have a top-ten list. The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter—book of revelation 8:10-11. #writephoto autumn autumn retreat 2020 autumn retreat 2020 blogging carpe diem carpe diem haiki kai carpe diem haiku kai carpe diem special carpe diem tan renga challenge cats classical kigo crossroads departure dverse poets pub ekphrastic poetry fairy tale finding the way find the silence first winter retreat 2020 five year celebration haibun
. The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but miah jeffra perfects apostrophe as canticle, a host of heroes beckoning the reader a knee deeper into the waters of another selfhood, madonna, mary shelley, felix gonzalez torres, plato, and jeffra's mother among them. At once gossamer and gauze, jeffra explores the nature of gender, sexuality, aesthetics Miah jeffra is author of the fabulous ekphrastic fantastic! (sibling rivalry 2020), the violence almanac (black lawrence 2021), the chapbook the first church of what’s happening (nomadic 2020), and co-editor, with arisa white and monique mero, of the anthology home is where you queer your heart (foglifter 2021). These annual awards are a fantastic opportunity for individuals committed to developing their writing. Awardees receive: a £2,000 cash award, allowing them to focus on their work tailored personal development opportunities, which can include mentoring from writers and industry professionals. Like a lot of ekphrastic devices, it serves, i think, as a kind of compact allegory of the character with which it’s identified. Gnossos is, indeed, on a mission to tear off his own head, it would seem: his quest to receive a vision, to get out of his own skin, to remain “exempt”: from death, societal convention, and ordinary consciousness. Ekphrastic narrative, on the other hand, is the poet’s story, which is derived from the painting. It is more about the poet’s interpretation of the artwork, or the storyline that the art suggests. A poem’s ekphrastic description, then, is about the physical properties of the work of art itself and its creation. Dancing is an ekphrastic art form because it is a response to another art form, music. A device in which one medium of art tries to relate to another medium by defining and describing its essence and form, and in doing so, relate more directly to the audience, through its illuminative liveliness. In the fabulous ekphrastic fantastic