I remember the darkness. The darkness and the photos.
In the two years after the birth of my first child, I lived in the shadow of severe postpartum depression that erased all memory except the moments and light I...
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Sep 23, 2011
by Anonymous
We're trying a new format for the gallery this month, which requires less technical work on the back end to publish. We hope you like it.
For PhotoPlay and Random Acts of Poetry, we asked you to think about rust and...
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Sep 16, 2011
by Anonymous
I stop the car, let it idle, and look around me. Not sure where one parks at the edge of a rubbish heap, I edge the vehicle into what I think will be a safe corner. Wellingtons go onto the feet. Gloves protect the hands. I...
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Aug 26, 2011
by Anonymous
This month, PhotoPlay and Random Acts of Poetry invited you to take a journey backward. Judging by the content submitted, you took the invitation seriously. Beautiful photos and sonnets came together to make a fantastic...
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Aug 12, 2011
by Anonymous
The expressions from the movie Oranges and Sunshine twirl through my thoughts as I feel a hunger to unwrap my own past. My plate of food is barely touched while Calvin and my mother wipe napkins over their lips. I ask...
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Jul 29, 2011
by Anonymous
PhotoPlay and Random Acts of Poetry collaborated again this month, bringing visual beauty and verbal delight together into one rewarding, creative response. Last week, we invited you to capture a conversation with your...
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Jul 22, 2011
by Anonymous
I don’t particularly long for school days, but I do miss two things: poetry discussions in English class with Mrs. Maas and the quarterly school debate.
Take a peek into the door: Her cropped hair dances atop...
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Jun 17, 2011
by Anonymous
This month, PhotoPlay was joined by Random Acts of Poetry for a special colour swirl edition. We start with this beautiful strand of blue, shot by Cindee Snider Re, and the accompanying featured poem, "Blue Riff,...
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Jun 10, 2011
by Anonymous
It was my grandfather’s 100th birthday. On that 15th day of September, 2007, every man in the neighbourhood, the dog and cat, family members and multiple teapots scrunched into the tiny living room space awaiting The...
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Apr 29, 2011
by Anonymous
Thanks for joining us this month. Our PhotoPlay challenge was a difficult one because it required a manual setting and it had an introspective element to it due to Lent and Easter. I hope that the lens helped you to see...
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