My Poem, "Aim," Published 🖋📓
So pleased to announce that my poem, “Aim,” was published in the current (December 2020) issue of Songs of Eretz. It has a refreshing “Spring” theme— more on that in the editor’s note.
The issue contains the poems of many very talented poets to savor, including meaningful poems by my dear friend, Charles A. Swanson, who is a featured poet in this and many other issues. Check out his poignant elegy to his beautiful granddaughter, Addi. It is an honor to share this issue as “contributor twins” with this steadfast friend from my grad-school days. Here’s to many more of his publications.
Read the complete issue at: Songs of Eretz.
“Aim”
Melanie Faith
That was the night we sped barefoot
down the embankment
across the rolling lawn
past the fountain outside the dining hall, past
Diana the huntress
her bow and arrow pointed perpetually
skyward. Her aim: a silvery spattering of almost-
summer stars. Our aim: celebrating the end
of semester. Our aim: disruption. Each shimmer
of water from rotating sprinklers
a world within a world we had yet
to step into, landed light
and wet on our bare
shoulders. We were a spinning
folly before equilibrium, the best kind.
The brick-tower clock struck two. Someone
squealed from the impact of the cold,
another someone shushed, but it was half-
hearted, against the mirth. Diana
and her bow, at the top of the hill, steady
she kept watch, peering the other way,
head tipped upward to her map of constellations:
ever-aiming into the many night spoils.
Enough stars to gather and gather again
in our open arms.
My Conceptual Photo in an Exhibit: Nov. 25, 2020-Feb 23, 2021! 🎉📸
I received splendid news today: my conceptual photo was chosen as part of a photography magazine’s online art show, A Show of Hands!
Check out not just my photo, “I had the Radio on,” but also 49 other fabulous photos from shutterbugs all over the globe. An honor to have my work included in such talented company. Don’t Take Pictures gallery show.
The show will run from today through February 23, 2021.
Photography Published in Molecule :)
Check out the latest amazing issue of Molecule, which features one of my black-and-white film photographs as well as excellent short poems, prose, and even a play. Here’s to issue #3!
The bottle was a find in my dad’s workshop— it’s glass, with a wonderful heft, and the letters on the bottle are raised/embossed. I love the font and how the bottle’s inscription includes a place on it.
Interview :)
Great news! I was interviewed by writer Annalisa Crawford. We dish on writing, new projects, and more. Check it out: interview.
Enjoy Annalisa’s amazing book: Grace and Serenity.
Also, check out Photography for Writers and my other writing craft books to get that inspiration flowing: Books.
My Photos Published in Burgundy Balloon :)
Pleased to announce that I have some photos (including this one, called “Next Steps”) published today in Burgundy Balloon.
Check out all of the images and some stellar creative writing, too (and consider submitting your own work) at: https://burgundyballoon.org/ .
Poetry in a Time of Pandemic
It’s my honor to have a poem published in the St. Charles Arts Council’s project, Poetry in a Time of Pandemic. My poem, “Quarantine III,” was just published. May these poems bring comfort, insight, and hope to us all as we wait out this terrible virus.
“Quarantine III”
I cracked open a window, to be touched
by chilled arms: shrill April winds better
than nothing. Sister says she’s started
having nightmares about social distancing.
She wandered through a hall, body shaking,
shaking a fist at duos in sweaters carelessly
entwined in chaste hugs. Last night, I dreamt
of an anniversary party in a giant ballroom.
I asked at every festooned food table for
pretzel rods. I was that specific; they weren’t
just pretzels. The punch was Hawaiian red but
all I could scoop into my cup was pale pink,
square ice pellets that tasted of run-off and
blankness. Not even water could quench
as it vanished. I took more anyway.
Photo Published in Aji Magazine
My black-and-white photo was recently published at Aji Magazine on page 102.
Check out the whole awesome issue, with work by over 50 artists and writers, here. They are also currently reading submissions for their fall issue, for anyone interested.
I'm Featured Author at Burningword Literary Journal :)
Super excited to announce that I’m Featured Author this month at Burningword Literary Journal.
Check out my poetry here: “Clean out” and “First Bite” poems.
Consider submitting your work (between now and March 10th), here: Submissions.
Also, consider supporting the journal and purchasing the issue, jam-packed with wonderful artistic works, here: Issue 93.