The Artist From The Inside Out

Jay Mora-Shihadeh is a Poet and Artist born and raised in Philadelphia, Pa., currently residing in Sarasota, FL. Informed by his deep love of Art, Nature and Social Justice, Jay pens emotional, vivid poems. The poetry conveys a myriad of tales, rich in expression, often reflecting on his experiences growing up in a large-extended-family. A family which hail’s from the Palestinian Diaspora on his father’s side, and the trickle-down-effects of his Irish-American mom who was abandoned and raised in an orphanage. His work is published at Spillwords Press, New York, NY., Freeverse Revolution a Literary Magazine and Masticadores USA an online literary publication.

Late in life I began to write poetry. I experienced a unique feeling that some entity took over my body and mind, and words (verse) kept hounding me. I had this same phenomena occur as a young child.  At the time, I didn’t pay much attention to what was happening in my thoughts. Words didn’t come easy to me. I related to, and considered myself a visual person, it was my comfort zone.

I had journaled for many years prior and through this process, it evolved into writing poetry when one day, suddenly, I decided to obey the internal prompts I was getting and let it flow.

What did I have to lose anyhow? It felt right. It felt natural.

So,  I will continue to ‘ journey on ‘ with a serious love of the creative process. My hope is that the end result, will match the love I have of this process and inspire my continued explorations-  from the inside out.

I hope you will find something here that moves you in some way.

Best to you,

 

Jay 

 

 

Published Poetry- 

“Sir Robin”  Published January 30, 2021, on Spillwords Press, New York, NY

“The Riddle of Death”,  Issue I: hebe, Published March 13, 2021, on Free Verse Revolution: a literary magazine

 “Ravaged”  Published April 28, 2021 on Spillwords Press, New York, NY

“The Whip-Poor-Wills”  Issue ll: hermes, Published June 15, 2021 on Free Verse Revolution: a literary magazine

“In The Hours of Care” Published June 19, 2021, on MasticadoresUSA, an online literary publication

“Red” Published August 3, 2021 on Spillwords Press, New York, NY

“Unnatural Sweets” Published September 18,2021 on MasticadoresUSA, an online literary publication

“The Village” Published October 22, 2021 on Spillwords Press, New York, NY

“Demon” Published December 3, 2021 on Spillwords Press, New York, NY

“You Will Go” Published February 7, 2022 on Spillwords Press, New York, NY

 “Spotlight on Writers” Published April 30, 2022 on Spillwords Press, New York, NY

“RAW WAR”  Published June 1, 2022 on DOOR=JAR, an online publication of poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, drama and artwork

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