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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.
Afternoon coffee, 1949. My great-grandmother is second from left.
I read some poetry last night for the @impossiblelanguage poetry series in Memphis, TN, with two other wonderful poets from the Northeast.
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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.
My great-grandmother (far left) and her bowling team. She was the coolest.
Messick High School basketball game. Memphis, TN. 1950s.
My father’s parents, when they had just graduated high school. This must’ve been in the mid 1950s, Memphis. They were very much in love. I would love to have a love like theirs.
I turned 30 on November 18th. It’s been a magical week with white roses, projections of Kurosawa films, dancing, champagne, friends, family, and one huge party with a haiku competition. This year’s haiku theme: me. Memphis, TN. 2015.
Memphis, TN. Early 1970s. Great-grandmother in center, and my dad in those fly-ass checkered pants.
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Ladies at a church reception for a bride-to-be, 1966. From my great-grandmother.
