JaZzArt en València

Si, la trompeta anuncia una nueva sección de nuestro blog/revista de arte VALENCIARTIST. Vamos a presentaros a los poetas, escritores y artistas que hemos conocido a través de nuestros años en WordPress. Comenzamos el lunes 27 de mayo 2024 a las 0600 horas (en Europa occidental).

Si quieres unirte a este grupo, te haremos una breve entrevista y publicaremos una muestra de tu obra y daremos el nombre y el link de tu blog. Avísanos con tu correo electrónico y te mandaremos la información completa.

Comenzaremos con escritores (y poetas) primero y después todos los demás…

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Yes, the trumpet announces a new section of our art blog/magazine VALENCIARTIST. We’re going to introduce you to the poets, writers, and artists we’ve met through our years on WordPress. We start on Monday, May 27, 2024, at 0600 hours (Western Europe time zone).

If you want to join this group, we will conduct a brief interview with you and publish a sample of your work, as well as provide the name and link to your blog. Send us your email and we will reply with the complete information.

We will start the series with the writers (and poets) and later every one else…

Welcome to the POETS & WRITERS Series on VALENCIARTIST. Here our protagonists tell their story in their own way and with their own words. We will not be translating as that would call for interpretation and we prefer that their words remain as they have written them.

You can be part of this series if you are a writer, a poet, artist or engaged in the arts in any other manner. Just reply to this post with your email address and we will send you the information and schedule you for participation.

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Dawn is a published author and a phenomenal poet from Arizona. Here is a sample of her poetry

BAUDELAIRE

when i saw you there

lying on the cold stone slab

your virgin beauty pure as white marble

i remembered why i loved you

and all the promises we made

you no longer see me

except in dreams far away

you no longer hear me

except when celestial angels

open your ear with a golden horn

but i can touch you

and suckle the cold white breast

as empty as your heart

and kiss the waxen lips

devoid of blood

your infinite beauty

is so much more

than your finite body

could ever bear

in this suffering world

someday my soul

will follow you into the ether

and find you smiling

like a gleeful child

in the arms of god

DAWN’S BIO

Dawn Pisturino is a retired registered nurse in Arizona, USA whose international publishing credits include poems, short stories, and articles. Her first poetry book, Ariel’s Song: Published Poems, 1987 – 2023, debuted with five-star reviews.

DAWN’S INTERVIEW

1) Who are your major literary/artistic references?

Depending on what I’m writing, my major influences have been H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, and the great Russian writers.

2) What makes you a writer? What do you like to write about? What is your plan for the next five years?

My ability to tap into and articulate deep emotions makes me a writer. I like writing various things, from dark humor to horror and off-beat thrillers. I’ve had numerous poems, short stories, and articles published. My goal is to publish a novel. I already have several started. I tend to drift toward the dark side, so you will probably never see me write a mushy romance novel, although that’s subject to change. 

3) Do you write about your life, your feelings/emotions, yourself?

I write about whatever strikes me at the time and according to my mood. Sometimes, I hear somebody say something that triggers a thought that I turn into a poem or short story. Writing short stuff is easier for me because of that process. Maintaining a consistent mood with longer pieces is hard, and I get bored quickly. I write a lot about interpersonal relationships because they interest me, and my background as a psychiatric nurse gave me plenty of opportunities to interact with all kinds of people.

CHEERS

The earth shakes

the wind stops blowing

the sky turns red

the sound of the million things rise to crush the gentle ears

and fire rips and burns the tender flesh.

Tears carve a path through skin that’s been ripped with someone’s hatred

and heaven opens its doors

with saddened smiles…

C.2024, Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 30/05/2024 – Valencia, Spain

I’ve often said such things like «life is a cabaret» (naturally I got it from the song) and «art is the search» and other such things that some people may think as nonsense, but I do not mind nonsense, actually I sort of steer in that direction. After all if life is a carnaval and art is the search, why not search for a cabaret? Here are some of the latest figments of my imagination:

CHEERS

Aunque la he estado representando en blanco y negro, nuestra ciudad está plena de colores…

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Although I have been showcasing our city in black and white, it really is quite colourful...

GRACIAS – CHEERS

Truth be told,

truth be said,

truth be damned…

But truth is spread like lightning on a darkened, stormy sky,

creating spectacles of light,

displaying power, strong, but somehow most sublime.

But here on Earth:

The blues have become ochres,

reds melted into greys,

the yellows disappeared into the fading haze,

while greens rebounded from the blackened walls,

where whitish lines recede,

and orange is the light from heaven,

I think it’s quite agreed…

Purpose is a glass half filled,

a detour one half empty,

imagination is pure bliss,

purpose is what’s intended.

No man can change the history

for what he was pretended,

so let us stop and think

before our life is ended.

C.2024, Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 29/05/2024 – Valencia, Spain

Saludos a todos vosotros, compañeros poetas, escritores, artistas, pensadores etcétera etcétera. Hoy damos debut y bienvenida a una interesantísima serie aquí en VALENCIARTIST titulada «Poetas & Escritores», pero en ella caben artistas de todos los géneros.

Día tras día vais a disfrutar del arte de algunos de nuestros favoritos escritores, poetas y artistas de las redes y de la vida fuera de ellas también. Sin censura ni cambios, publicaremos, en sus propias palabras, lo que sienten, porque escriben, y como guían y enfocan su arte y su carrera. Tambien vais a leer muestras de su obra literaria o artística y llegareis a conocerlos mejor. Hay que destacar aquellos que se adentran y buscan adelantar la cultura, sabiendo y reconociendo que la cultura es universal y no tiene fronteras.

Ya tenemos una lista de poetas y escritores interesados que van a participar, pero si tú, si, tú que me estas leyendo, quieres participar también, venga, hazlo que es muy simple. Contesta, a través de este post, y déjame tu correo electrónico. En cortos días te mandaremos un email con toda la información para que puedas participar.

Gracias. espero leer vuestros comentarios y solicitudes, pero sobre todo espero que disfrutéis de esta nueva serie.

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Greetings to all of you, fellow poets, writers, artists, thinkers, and so on and so forth. Today we debut and welcome an incredibly interesting series here on VALENCIARTIST!

Day after day, you will enjoy the art of some of my favourite writers, poets, and artists from the networks and life outside of them as well. Without censorship or changes, we will publish, in their own words, what they feel, why they write, and how they guide and focus their art and career. You will also read/see samples of their literary or artistic work and get to know them better. It is important to highlight those who delve into and seek to advance culture, knowing and recognizing that culture is universal and knows no boundaries.

We already have a list of interested poets and writers who are going to participate. But if you, yes, you reading this, also want to participate, come on, do it because it’s very simple. Reply to this post and leave us your email address. In a few days, we will send you an email with all the information so you too can participate.

Thank you! I hope to read your comments and replies and more than anything I hope you’ll enjoy the series.

GRACIAS – CHEERS

Saludos a todos vosotros, compañeros poetas, escritores, artistas, pensadores etcétera etcétera. Hoy damos debut y bienvenida a una interesantísima serie aquí en VALENCIARTIST titulada «Poetas & Escritores», pero en ella caben artistas de todos los géneros.

Día tras día vais a disfrutar del arte de algunos de nuestros favoritos escritores, poetas y artistas de las redes y de la vida fuera de ellas también. Sin censura ni cambios, publicaremos, en sus propias palabras, lo que sienten, porque escriben, y como guían y enfocan su arte y su carrera. Tambien vais a leer muestras de su obra literaria o artística y llegareis a conocerlos mejor. Hay que destacar aquellos que se adentran y buscan adelantar la cultura, sabiendo y reconociendo que la cultura es universal y no tiene fronteras.

Ya tenemos una lista de poetas y escritores interesados que van a participar, pero si tú, si, tú que me estas leyendo, quieres participar también, venga, hazlo que es muy simple. Contesta, a través de este post, y déjame tu correo electrónico. En cortos días te mandaremos un email con toda la información para que puedas participar.

Gracias. espero leer vuestros comentarios y solicitudes, pero sobre todo espero que disfrutéis de esta nueva serie.

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Greetings to all of you, fellow poets, writers, artists, thinkers, and so on and so forth. Today we debut and welcome an incredibly interesting series here on VALENCIARTIST!

Day after day, you will enjoy the art of some of my favourite writers, poets, and artists from the networks and life outside of them as well. Without censorship or changes, we will publish, in their own words, what they feel, why they write, and how they guide and focus their art and career. You will also read/see samples of their literary or artistic work and get to know them better. It is important to highlight those who delve into and seek to advance culture, knowing and recognizing that culture is universal and knows no boundaries.

We already have a list of interested poets and writers who are going to participate. But if you, yes, you reading this, also want to participate, come on, do it because it’s very simple. Reply to this post and leave us your email address. In a few days, we will send you an email with all the information so you too can participate.

Thank you! I hope to read your comments and replies and more than anything I hope you’ll enjoy the series.

GRACIAS – CHEERS

The rhythm is a heartbeat…

so starts the swing, so starts the movement, energy connected to the body, body connected to the eternal flow, flowing to be loved, to be touched, to be forever remembered…

Soul in soul, breath in breath, pounding and pounding, energy waves,

catalysing teardrops laced with grins and smiles and laughter, roller coaster going full speed down, the thrill is what I’m after…

movement to movement, whisper to whisper, cry to cry,

caressing the wind that caresses the skin and the warm trail of tears confuse themselves with the moisture of a kiss…

C. 2024, Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 28/05/2024 – Valencia, Spain

WHAT IS THE EURO-KU?

Simply put, it is a Haiku written by a European who loves Japanese poetry so he created something that would honour the style but that could be written by non-Japanese people with the same spirit.

CHEERS

¿Y si lo único que hay es corrupción, mentiras e injusticias?