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Weekly Shoutout: Hey Playwright!

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Hi there,

Today I am excited to be arts calling photographer Kamal X!! (www.iamkamalx.com)

About Kamal, in his own words:
I am Kamal X, a professional photographer who has been documenting my travels throughout the world since 2015. Photography found me at a time in my life when I felt confused and voiceless. I wasn’t sure of where I was internally and what direction I wanted my life to go. I welcomed my challenges and I found myself drawn to creating images that evoke emotions rooted in the many universal elements of the human experience. My goal is to tell stories from all walks of life and give a raw voice to the world we live in, through compassion and honesty.

BLACK ASTRONAUT, now available for purchase here:
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Astronaut-Kamal-X/dp/1908211938/

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/iamkamalx

About BLACK ASTRONAUT: THE STARS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE
Join award-winning photographer Kamal X on his epic search for beauty through a divided America.
Black Astronaut is an extraordinary collection of powerful images that tell the stories of the everyday people behind the sensationalized headlines, a nuanced representation of the new Black America. Living, loving and fighting for a better world in difficult times. Open your heart to this electrifying collection of images, as Kamal X uses his camera to explore America after George Floyd, Covid-19, and Trump by finding beauty, humanity, and hope in the rage of a people under fire. Black Astronaut serves as a raw opportunity to re-evaluate one’s own intersection with the ongoing shifts in society that bring renewed threats to communities against a background framed by the unequal impact of economic volatility. This book is about looking at the recent past to try to find a direction for the near future.

Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Kamal! All the best!

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Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love,

j

https://artscalling.com

Weekly Shoutout: Switchyard Podcast!

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Hi there,

Today I am excited to be arts calling poet Richard Jeffrey Newman for a second appearance on the podcast!! (richardjnewman.com)

About:
Richard Jeffrey Newman is the author of Words for What Those Men Have Done (Guernica Editions 2017) and The Silence of Men (CavanKerry Press 2006), as well as the translation, The Teller of Tales: Stories from Ferdowsi’s Shahameh (Junction Press 2011). He curates the First Tuesdays reading series and is Professor of English at Nassau Community College.

His latest poetry collection, T'shuvah, is now available from Fernwood Press!
https://www.fernwoodpress.com/2023/09/07/tshuvah/

Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/richardjnewman
Microblog: https://richnewman.micro.blog/

Thanks for returning a second time, Richard, such a pleasure to catch up! All the best!

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Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love,

j

https://artscalling.com

Weekly Shoutout: The First Draft Club: A podcast from Mary Adkins!

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Hi there,

Today I am excited to be arts calling poet John Yamrus!

About:

In a career spanning more than 50 years as a working writer, John Yamrus has published 35 books (29 volumes of poetry, 2 novels, 3 volumes of non-fiction and a children’s book). He has also had nearly 3,000 poems published in magazines and anthologies around the world. A number of his books and poems are taught in college and university courses. He is widely considered to be a master of minimalism and the neo-noir in modern poetry. His latest books are TWENTY FOUR POEMS and SELECTED POEMS: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT. A volume of his SELECTED POEMS was recently published in Albania and TWENTY FOUR POEMS is due out in translation later this year.

24 Poems, now available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRCC2LTW

Thanks for this delightful conversation, John! All the best!

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Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love,

j

https://artscalling.com

Weekly Shoutout: Liars and Leeches - A Supernatural Horror Audio Drama!

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Hi there,

Today I am excited to be arts calling musician and existential creative BV Wolfgang of The Spacewalkers FFEEATCOPO!

About:
Welcome to The Spacewalkers Foundation for Extraterrestrial Exploration and the Circumvention of Planned Obsolescence. Founded by BV Wolfgang and an ever-growing staff of dreamers, inventors, scientists, and artists, the Foundation aims to infinitely extend consciousness through art, philosophy, technology, and an impressive amount of Hologram Dogs™

Listen to the latest tracks here: linktr.ee/thespacewalkers

Read the Spacewalkers Substack! https://spacewalkers.substack.com

Follow on Instagram: @thespacewalkers

Thanks for this delightful conversation, BV! All the best!

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Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love,

j

https://artscalling.com

Comments and suggestions welcome: Send Jaime a message!

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Hi there,

Today I am excited to be arts calling novelist and poet Anne Leigh Parrish!

About our guest:

Anne Leigh is the author of twelve books with her latest poetry collection, If The Sky Won’t Have Me, published in April 2023 by Unsolicited Press. Her next novel, A Summer Morning, arrives in October 2023, also from Unsolicited Press. She lives in Olympia, Washington.

A SUMMER MORNING, now available for from Unsolicited Press! https://www.anneleighparrish.com/a-summer-morning/

Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Anne! All the best!

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Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). If you like the show: leave a review, or share it with someone who's starting their creative journey! Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love,

j

https://artscalling.com

Hi there,

We're trying something different today: Today I'm thrilled to bring you an Arts Calling Q&A!
Friend of the show Shahab Zargari stops by to help me process the first 100 episodes of the podcast and some lessons along the way. Hope you enjoy!!

About our Guest:
Shahab Zargari is an award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker and administrative faculty member of the UNLV College of Fine Arts. After years of creating original short-form streaming content, Shahab made his directorial debut with the Philip K. Dick adaptation, THE CRYSTAL CRYPT (2013), an official selection at the San Diego Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival. He continued to hone his craft, creating original films, music videos, and a multitude of commissioned works. Shahab’s short films MY NAME IS ART (2018) and OH, THE GUILT (2021) garnered a dozen awards from a variety of prestigious festivals, including official selection to Amazon’s inaugural All Voices Film Festival, a digital festival celebrating underrepresented communities. Currently, the Docu-Dance short ‘The UNLV Shoah Project‘ is making rounds in the film festival circuit. You can view all of his creative output on his Vimeo and Youtube accounts.

THE CRYSTAL CRYPT 10 year anniversary art book is now available here!

https://www.blurb.com/b/11639745-the-crystal-crypt-film-art-book

Thanks for making this happen, Shahab! All the best!

Mentioned in the episode: https://www.instagram.com/inspiredtowrite

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Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro (cruzfolio.com). Like the show? Tell your creative friends, leave a review, or send me an email here. Your support truly makes a difference! Go make a dent. Much love,

j

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