When nights are longest by Luisa A. Igloria

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Happy Holidays to all Moving Poems readers/viewers. This is a joint production of Moving Poems and Via Negativa, where Luisa A. Igloria and I blog daily poems. Via Negativa began in mid-December 2003, and this time of year “when nights are longest” has always seemed full of creative possibilities to me. So I found a mysterious, dark but light-filled home move at the Prelinger Archives, selected and arranged some of the images into a composition that made sense to me, emailed the link to Luisa and asked her if she thought she could find a poem in it. Indeed she could! After a little back-and-forth about the title and opening lines, she settled on a final form for the text and sent me a reading that she recorded with her mobile phone. I found a Creative Commons-licensed sound recording on SoundCloud through my usual method of clicking on random links and trusting in serendipity: it’s a field recording by Marc Weidenbaum of Phil Kline’s “Unsilent Night” boombox procession passing a certain point in the streets of San Francisco on December 18, 2010.

Moving Poems will be taking the rest of the week off, but will be back on the 29th.

2 Comments

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    Helen Dewbery 23 February, 2015

    Fabulous mix of voice, sound and image – I like it very much!

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    Blog Post #2 – Jordan Andrew 11 November, 2021

    […] enjoyed the simplicity of When the nights are longest by Luisa A. Igloria. The location, while I haven’t been there, gave me a sense of nostalgia. (A bit like the […]

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