“I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple;
garlands from window to window;
golden chains from star to star, and I dance.”
– Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations, 1886
Art – Moonscape – Marius van Dokkum Dutch, B. 1957
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
– N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society
Art by Romany Soup.
Let’s say that most of us flicker in silence, David Lohrey is one of the few who flickers in a roar.
Read his amazing piece on Sudden Denouement:
“They’ve outlawed torture because it doesn’t work,
but they forgot to tell my little brother.
I went to Madrid and wanted paella but all I found
was frozen pizza.
I traveled to Saudi Arabia and knew exactly what I wanted,”
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/06/08/peripheral-visions-david-lohrey/
[David Lohrey is from Memphis, where he grew up, and now lives in Tokyo, where he teaches and writes for local travel magazines. He graduated from UC Berkeley and then moved to LA where he lived for over 20 years.
Internationally, his poetry can be found in Otoliths, Stony Thursday Anthology, Sentinel Quarterly, and Tuck Magazine. In the US, recent poems have appeared in Poetry Circle, FRiGG, Obsidian, and Apogee Journal. His fiction can be read in Crack the Spine, Dodging the Rain, and Literally Stories.
David’s The Other Is Oneself, a study of 20th-century literature, was published in 2016, while his first collection of poetry, Machiavelli’s Backyard, was released in September 2017. He is a member of the Sudden Denouement Collective.]
I am no photographer, just a keen observer of the waxing and waning nature, as well as the moon.
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
– Margaret Atwood
Art by Egon Schiele.
I am excited to herald the Sudden Denouement Black & White Photography Contest:
Sudden Denouement has since its inception been interested in the synergy between imagery and the written word. We have been diligent in our commitment to maintain a specific aesthetic that compliments the strange world of words we inhabit. In the spirit of our commitment, we are launching a black and white/monochrome/sepia photography contest. This contest is a celebration of the medium, but also a means to showcase artists who share a passion for black and white photography.
Read the whole article:
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/06/06/sudden-denouement-black-white-photography-contest/
Send submissions to suddendenouement@gmail.com
Deadline: 6/19/2019
[Photo: Able Eble]
Give your heart
but to whom
Shall desire.
Allow your joy
to be received
with greatest care
and tunes of innocence.
Strengthen the bond of yourselves
but to surpass
the nameless peril
of Deception.
Name the mirror
in which you catch
the single moment
of deep, ungrateful
Love.
© Iulia Halatz
(An old story from 2017)
Art by Dani Soon.
Wonderful piece by Jonathan on Sudden Denouement:
“I would rather walk
my authentic steps into the night,
embracing obscurity,
than remain pliant fodder
for certainly lovely honey-traps
laid aforehand, by well-meaning pity.”
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/06/05/the-night-is-for-many-things-but-jonathan-ofarrell/
[Photo: Jonathan O’Farrell]
“I guess you might describe me as a semi-nomad, at the moment . . . and in the moment, I might change. I am transitioning into a creative life, blogging, photography and, significantly, the publication of my first two photographically illustrated poetry anthologies, this year.”
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Storyheap, storysuccess by Bucharest-born Sebastian Dobrincu, or how to dream, believe and build.
He launched Storyheap when he was 17.
Read the whole story on forbes.com.
Art by Andy Warhol, Do It Yourself (Landscape), 1962.
What of Art?
-It is a malady.
–Love?
-An Illusion.
–Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
–You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
–What are you?
-To define is to limit.
– Oscar Wilde
Art by James R Eads.
