Edward Murray was born in 1970 and raised in southern
California during the tough times of the nineteen eighties and nineties. He
grew up in an economically challenged neighborhood with gangs, drugs and
violence. Sometimes he would choose to participate in certain activities and
then would find relief or therapy from the difficult situations by writing,
drawing or taking pictures. He was nick named Stranger because of being away
from the neighborhood on many different occasions. Barbara Lewis sang a song
named, "Hello Stranger," this became his adopted name. His last stay
in jail provided an opportunity for a reduced sentence in exchange for
enlistment in the US Army. He spent ten years in the US Army, where among other
things he met and married his wife. He left the US Army with an honorable
discharge in 2001 and attended dive school in Los Angeles, California. They
eventually settled on the east side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They
celebrated twenty-one years of marriage in July of 2014. His loves and
interests are family and friends, poetry, cars, art and photography.
Stranger is the author of Stranger's Pilgrimage. Stranger
is a contributor to Dionne's Story, the first and second anthology of poetry
and prose for the awareness of violence against women. He is a member, and past
president, of the Langston Hughes Poetry Society of Pittsburgh. His poetry has
appeared in Writer's Block at the Soulpitt as well as several other
publications, including most recently , "Uppagus" and "The
Brentwood Library Anthology." He is a member, and past president,
of the Langston Hughes Poetry Society of Pittsburgh. He is an artist, photographer and poet and his work can be
seen and heard regularly at the Braddock Carnegie Library and all around
Pittsburgh. Edward welcomes
feedback from his readers.
You may contact him with questions, comments, or
for an exchange of ideas through his email address at: edleemu1@verizon.net
Please check out some people
that inspire me:
Hemingway's Reading Series:
The White Gardenia Press:
Pittsburgh Literary Calendar:
Transformazium:
Braddock Library:
e b bortz:
animal prayer:
Kelli Stevens Kane:
Johnson Shaw Stereoscopic
Museum:
emilita bambina:
Michael Williams:
Braddock Films:
Obscurae:
Pomegranate Projects
The Pomegranate Project is comprised of local artists, of
different mediums, that come together for the inspiration of art making and
sharing. The group varies depending on the people who would like to participate
with the project at that time though the group has included: literary artists,
poets, photographers, painters, singers, filmmakers and musicians.
The Pomegranate Project is named as such as a pomegranate
quenches ones thirst for art. Poetry is savoring each bite, reading a poem is
sharing the taste (sweet or bitter) with others, art is the pomegranate. The
flowers of the pomegranate are bright red, 3cm in diameter, with four or five
petals. The edible fruit is a berry and is somewhere between a lemon and a
grapefruit in size with a rounded hexagonal shape and has thick reddish skin
and around 600 seeds. Each seed has a surrounding water-laden pulp, the edible
aril, ranging in color from white to deep red or purple. The seeds are embedded
in a white spongy astringent pulp. Some seeds represent the different mediums
of art and some represent the craft associated with each of the arts. Each seed
is water-laden edible pulp. Each seed quenches ones thirst. The Pomegranate Project also recognizes
there are other ways to enjoy art: Potato skins-recognize the elements of craft
used in art-skins loaded with cheddar cheese, bacon, sour cream and sprinkled
with green onions.
Chilled smoked salmon-choose passionate subject
matter-pumpernickel bread, hot smoked salmon covered with chives.
Apricot
Canapés-unleashing imagination-sun dried apricots, crumbled blue cheese, local
clover honey, lightly peppered and topped with pistachios.
Butterscotch Ice
Cream-critique and revise- made from scratch using only the finest ingredients,
mouth-watering bite after bite
German Chocolate Cheesecake-finding and
developing new inspirations, ideas and sources-rich chocolate cheesecake with
Oreo cookie crust smothered with pecan icing, vanilla ice cream melted with hot
maple fudge.
Please email me if you are interested in organizing a project
and/ or would like to be involved in one. Please note there is dedication
required by all participants during the entire time of the project. The project
usually would consist of (please note that this is a very brief description)
inspiration, art creation, critique/ revision accordingly, researching/ booking
with interested venues and then presenting completed works.
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