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Cultural Consciousness in Aimé Césaire’s ‘Return to My Native Land’ & Aberjhani’s ‘Return to Savannah’
“This comparative literary analysis examines how these poems resonate with contemporary discourses such as Critical Race Theory, Black Lives Matter, and WOKE theory, while also embodying values significant to humanity as a whole.”
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Shakespeare’s Face Reinterpreted: The Second Coming of Artist Rocky Bettis
(“Shakespeare Considered Sepia” 2024 digital painting by Aberjhani based on original 1623 First Folio engraving by Martin Droeshout.) “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler (from Stella Adler on America’s Master Playwrights) 1. Different Times and New Places Have you…
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Days of Midnight Madness 30 Years On
There are not too many living writers who can claim to have authored books which had the kind of impact upon a city which John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil has had on Savannah, Georgia (USA). The boosts it provided for Savannah’s tourism and film industries…
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War-time Powers and Persuasions of Poetry
“Through metaphors, imagery, and rhythm, poetry can engage our emotions, intellect, and imagination in a manner that prose often cannot. It is this ability that makes poetry a valuable medium for exploring the intricate sociological and philosophical aspects of war…”
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A Quote for Suicide Prevention Month
“The sweeping melodies and harmonies gathered beneath him and held him. He couldn’t believe how kind they were.” (#Aberjhani) The above #quote is from the fantasy superhero novel Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player. It is available as a #Kindle #eBook download unload from September 9-12, 2023, in…
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The Climatological Blossoms on My Mother’s Pink Camellia Part 1 of 2
EDITORIAL NOTE: It is not possible for me to consider any kind of observances of Mother’s Day 2022 without thinking heavily about the women and children currently enduring unyielding suffering in war-torn Ukraine. While this presentation was first posted on the Charter for Compassion website in 2017, it addresses realities…
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Part 1: Introduction to Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment
Consider that members of various “demographic groups” in different nations have begun to assert claims to political power at the same time that unavoidable historical population shifts are already in progress. Nearly everyone recognizes the need for greater social harmony as these shifts progress, yet many insist on touting reactionary…
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Reading Rumi after 9/11 and again at the end of the War in Afghanistan (part 1)
Can Poetry and the Taliban Coexist? Aside from being a country plagued by a succession of wars and economic woes, Afghanistan is also the birthplace of one of the great figures of world literature: Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Rumi. ..
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Election Day 2020: Democracy, Personal Whims, and Accountability – Conversations with the World 101
Welcome to Conversations with the World 101. Originally part of the virtual launch party for the book Greeting Flannery O’Connor at the Back Door of My Mind, this edited version is being presented as Americans head to the polls for Election Day 2020. This is what it’s all about: Quotations…
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Renaming The Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge Art Gallery Launches
If there are any kinds of silver linings to the numerous struggles for social justice taking place across the world right now, they are probably the different songs, films, poems, essays, and fine art inspired by them. Such at least is the case involving the decades-long struggle to rename the…
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News Release: 2018 Art Catalog Performance Surpasses Expectations
Use Discount Code GMKJUD for 15% OFF all Official Postered Chromatic Poetics artwork from August through October 2018. Check site for updates on special discounts.
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PRESS RELEASE: Summer 2018 kicks off with ‘Blossoms of Nonviolent Conflict Resolution’
Two new releases by Postered Chromatic Poetics creator Aberjhani made their debut on Pixels.com and at Fine Art America as part of May’s ELEMENTAL Month celebration, a third work of art posted June 14, and three more were released June 18. The new releases along with the artist’s entire online…
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When the Lyrical Muse Sings the Creative Pen Dances – Bright Skylark Literary Productions
If you’re a regular reader of my national African-American cultural arts column, you may have noticed that I have not been posting articles as frequently as I once did. The reason is simple enough. Having reached a certain point in the research for my current book-in-progress (at least one of…
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The Abbreviated Mind Faces ‘The King of Music’ Dilemma (part 1 of 2) – National African-American Art Examiner
Michael Jackson in the studio. (Postered Poetics enhancement of pr release photo) For those members of a given demographic made uneasy by the idea of eventually becoming just one more minority in America, an abbreviated mind taking note of the evolving dynamics could react with overwhelming fear. The carnage inflicted…
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5 Ways to be Geniuses Together: Celebrating Ja Jahannes
“Unless we learn” quote by Ja A. Jahannes (with art graphic by Postered Poetics) One self-penned definition of the word genius is: a focused intensification of individual intelligence resulting in works of exemplary creativity, visionary leadership, or uncommon spiritual depth and beauty. This definition is perhaps a fitting one to…
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Selma Revisited: from Violent Racism to Reflective Compassion (part 1)
Left to right, Producers of the Golen Globe Award-nominated film Selma: Dede Gardner, Oprah Winfrey, and director Ava DuVernay. (photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for AFI) The movie Selma, directed and executive produced by Ava DuVernay, opened on Christmas Day 2014 and rang in the New Year 2015 with domestic…
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Song of the Black Skylark: Poem in the American Literary Halloween Tradition
(Black Skylark title art graphic by Postered Poetics for Aberjhani) Does the enigmatic figure of the Black Skylark referenced in this blog title have anything to do with Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” (1845), with Walt Whitman’s “The Mystic Trumpeter”…
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