"Ekphrastic Magic" Exhibition at Revela'T Analog Photography Festival 📄🖊📸

Super excited to have poetry in the awesome collaborative "Ekphrastic Magic" photo-poetry project curated by the fabulous @amyjasek @filmshooterscollective in the international Revela'T Analog Photography Festival, currently running in Barcelona! Check out the festival website for excerpts of the excellent work in the "Ekphrastic Magic" exhibit as well as a listing of other fine photographers/photographic exhibits now on view in Spain and on their Instagram @revelatfestival .

More details about the exhibit: “The Film Shooters Collective is proud to present ‘Ekphrastic Magic’: an interdisciplinary project bringing together thirty FSC members and thirty writers. In it / Ekphrastic Magic, the private world of the photographer becomes the solitary walk of a poet, and together they create a new, unique universe, welcoming in the viewer to bring their own experiences to their personal interpretation of the work. The photographs range from 35mm and 120 film to instant film and even tintype; the images and words are as diverse as the artists who made them.”

To celebrate, I thought I'd post this film photo I took this summer on #kodak #kodakfilm with my #35mmfilm Canon camera. Can't resist glasses, violets, and reflections.

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Amazing Music: Friday, September 17th: Link 🎶🎼

So honored that several poems from my collection, This Passing Fever, will be set to music and sung during this amazing performance.

Please tune into the livestream next Friday, September 17th at 8:15 Eastern or 7:15 Central. The livestream link:

Recital Hall Webcast | Department of Music and Theatre (iastate.edu)

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My Poems Set to Music and Voice! 🎶🎼

I’m super excited to announce that selected poems from my collection, This Passing Fever, have been set to music and voice by the incredibly talented composer and musician Jodi Goble and will be performed by an array of professional vocalists and musicians at Iowa State University on Friday, September 17th at 7:30 pm (Central)/ 8:30 pm (EST).

Through the magic of the interwebs, there will be a livestream which I will link closer to the date. Mark your calendars now—I’ve heard clips and these folks are amazing and first-rate! It’s an honor to have them perform my work.

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Ekphrastic Magic Project 📸📓

Super excited to have a poem I wrote in a fantastic project, “Ekphrastic Magic," a photography and poem collaboration, this summer. It is part of an international photo festival in Barcelona, Spain!

Many thanks to the amazingly talented Amy Jasek at Film Shooters Collective for the artistic camaraderie, for her vision and hard work in putting this project together, and for the wonderful invitation to take part.

Learn more about Revela’t and their festival.

Photo Courtesy of Markus Winkler at Unsplash.com

Photo Courtesy of Markus Winkler at Unsplash.com

"Within Reach"--Ekphrastic Work Featured Today 📓🖊📸

I’m thrilled to announce that a poem I wrote, “Within Reach,” based on a fantastic photograph by talented film photographer Martí Blesa was published today as part of Film Shooters Collective’s NATIONAL POETRY MONTH, DAY 5.

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Check out all of the posts each day during April at Film Shooters Collective!

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Within Reach
by Melanie Faith

It is, indeed,
something

good to be
one and small

of many who are
one and small.

It is, indeed,
filled

with gray
potential,

elemental
to advance

in ordinary sandals
against cement.

More and more
rectangles

await our future.
Stacked lenses

mirrored,
so when we wave—

that pleasant
pain bloomed

there in the back
of the neck—

we wave back
looking up.