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What are some of the themes that surface in your poems? What are you most obsessed with as a poet these days? As a child, I assiduously avoided politics because I didn’t want factors outside of my control to define me. Unfortunately, our world has always politicized identity and attacked authenticity, so I’ve had to accept that the personal is political. I’m trying to regain a connection to my cultural heritage, because when I adopted English, I lost Chinese, thus I lost an ability to perceive. If you have lost parts of yourself for whatever reason, your artistic work will naturally call you to find them.
Our poet, Isabella De Palo Garcia Perez, is published in edition 14 of Spry Literary Journal. Read her work: Theoretical: a bird falls from the nest
Only later, when the young photographer consulted with the director of the exhibit, Joshua Sariñana, did the idea of framing the photos as baseball cards emerge. The implication is, as Harris said, that these people “have left a legacy or that they're going to leave a legacy.”
Vantage Point | The View from Here - How does X mark a spot? How do we navigate our own surroundings? At what point do we walk, run or fall? Vantage Point seeks to illuminate our vision and create a point of contact to the land. This collection of images brings us together with a view of not just data points on a map, but locations of meaning, of remembrance, of identity.
Arts at the Armory- Somerville- Through These Realities brings together six poets and six photographers of color in a visual and written dialog around social justice. Organized by Joshua Sariñana and supported by the Somerville Arts Council, six poems and forty-one photographs will be on view from June 10th through July 22nd, 2022.
I caught up with the multi-faceted Joshua Sariñana to talk about his new project with the Somerville Arts Council, titled Through These Realities, that will seek six local poets and photographers of color, who will create a series of images, inspired by prompt-guided poetry from poets.
This week I’m taking a moment to highlight a current opportunity for Boston area poets and photographers of color via a project called Through These Realities.
WBUR Interview
Magdiela Matta, from WBUR’s The ARTery, interviews Joshua Sariñana about Through These Realities.
F-STOP Magazine publishes Adam Cordelle’s image, Touch
Today, May 2 at 6 p.m. will be the opening art reception for “Through TheseRealities” which is a photography and poem exhibit curated by award winning photographer Joshua Sarinana. “Through These Realities” challenges the narratives of mass media that invalidates the experiences of people of color through the interactions of images by six photographers of color: Adam Cordelle, Andrew Harris, Kenia Arbaiza, Wandy Pascoal, Xudong Liu and Paul Sayed who were inspired by six poets of color: Kesper Wang, Isabella De Palo Garcia Perez, Durane West, Alysia Williams, Mayank Chugh and Cesar Sanchez Beras.