https://www.kerryelizabethmcpherson.com/about daily 0.75 2023-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/9b342e5a-251a-4c24-8175-3e1fb77e90e0/Kerry+McPherson.png https://www.kerryelizabethmcpherson.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-08-17 https://www.kerryelizabethmcpherson.com/work daily 1.0 2023-08-18 https://www.kerryelizabethmcpherson.com/work/poetry-k97hn monthly 0.5 2023-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/ed28895e-28b3-4111-9c8b-92ad2e7fef0f/Front+Cover+JPEG.jpg Work - Poetry The Ecstatic Orphan is the debut poetry collection from writer, Kerry Elizabeth McPherson, with Cloud Publishing. Brimming with longing, each piece cracks opens the terrible beauty of love passing through loss. The engine of grief asks questions at once baffling and holy. These poems of response become intimate fractals of memory, traveling anguished epiphany to chart luminous new terrain. Available for purchase at the Philosophical Research Society Bookstore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/1c1768ce-4879-4d91-a857-05115dd20f48/Humana+Obscura+.png Work - Poetry Celebrating the season with my poem, Tor. Click on image for link. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/37032138-bc93-4e74-b307-17389fd82c6d/cover.jpg Work - Poetry A poem from the collection has been adapted into a ballad by friend and collaborator, Natalie Carol, on Valley Queen's new album, Chord of Sympathy. Click image to listen on Bandcamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/608ad405-29f7-4da5-a798-5234178df9b2/IMG_4505.jpg Work - Poetry Lunation It’s all a lullaby. As the fortresses burn, coyotes slink through then take flight, passing The jade tops of banks. It’s the cost of doing business. Because they HAVE found Life’s signature on Venus And wombs ARE being stolen From women in detention. This week. Call it a lark. Call it phosphine. Now that shame has been burned Off of poverty, call it a Supermoon. We emerge from the mines With silky eyes After four millennia, Slabs of tourmaline in our arms. It’s a go-no-go for Earth. Phosphine turns to Life and says: But you were the making of me! Then: Stay close. It’s not over ’till it’s over. A female astronaut with A scorched beehive moans: WE WENT TO THE WRONG MOON! Then: No-no-you’ve got to think in flowers. It’s in our abdomens. It’s in the feces of badgers and penguins. It’s in deep sea worms. She should know. She’s a priestess, and by now It’s abundantly clear, we have to send a woman To space if we are to survive. Next moon, we won’t leave bibles. No, a single pomegranate seed will do. Skyscrapers can’t bear children. Where eight thousand workers Poured time into cubicles, Nothing remains unsaid. The negative space we call is some other. Better to plant rice paddies on every floor. Better to declare ourselves “between engagements”, And pray for microbes. It’s a former ocean floor. So we put the department store on a pyre. Inside, mannequins stand Mute in the dark. Dust on their ensembles and they don’t feel us setting fire to the place. Even as the ceiling falls in. They’re so last season. We are crying ecstatically Throwing coupons into the flames. These are not DollarDays. Over by ladies’ wear, sparks fly off the electrical box. Our throats are so open now, as it burns. The parking garage crumbles. We wail into the haze, tossing orange rinds and tin foil. Our foremothers arrive on the breeze Singing sales jingles as lamentation: Nothin’ Fancy, And the hawks circle, finally, to say You did what you had to do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/b842be32-4675-4338-b0e7-21e3669593b3/Pelican.jpg Work - Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/b75563be-f32d-454f-9d73-fe7b35bc94fa/IMG_4479+%281%29.jpg Work - Poetry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/1692208350243-9CPZ0ZQ2L5WKTODA47VT/LA+Sky.jpg Work - Poetry https://www.kerryelizabethmcpherson.com/work/filmtv-slgmf monthly 0.5 2023-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/67cd8aa8-34a8-40d2-90a1-a7da32517d2f/Blowing+Seeds.png Work - Film & Television ALBERT: A SHORT FILM A woman attempts to return her childhood stuffed bunny to the department store where it came from. Her life in tatters, she looks for someone to take back all of her disappointment and grant her a clean slate. What she finds at the return counter, however, challenges her expectation of perfect happiness. MADE WITH SUPPORT FROM THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA, WITH A SOUNDTRACK BY MUSICIAN AND PERFORMANCE ARTIST, MAYLEE TODD. Screened at LA Shorts Fest, Filmstock, Cinefest Sudbury International Film Fest, KIngston Canadian Film Festival, Yorkton Film Festival (Nomination, Golden Sheaf) and WorldFest-Houston (Winner, Bronze Remi) Click image for link https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/1692207624862-M1ZSUAT9JY29SXPCJXSA/Comic+Strip.png Work - Film & Television COMIC STRIP: A ROCK OPERA A struggling South Asian actor torn between duty to take over his parents’ fading bodega and the desire to go all in on his dreams of stardom discovers that only a hallucinogenic desert ritual will bring him totality and reveal his true path. He beckons his best friend, an embittered star of the avant-garde, and his weary lover into the Mojave to take a sacred drug. The desert does its work on them, but not in the way they wanted. It strips them bare, confronting them with the emptiness of their own quest, revealing shattered dreams, and a world of longing. Frenzied, hallucinatory arbitrations of art, fame, love lost, race, and the unspoken resentments of their own friendship erupt…in musical numbers. SELECTED FOR CINE QUA NON'S STORYLINES LAB Click image for link. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/d583d418-a6c0-44f1-a176-8bc0373ab5d1/ATPO+Poster.png Work - Film & Television ALL THE PRETTY ONES: A GOTHIC HORROR In the summer of '72, a mother of three girls escapes to an island off the coast of Maine to write the novel she hopes and prays will lift her from the ashes of her marriage, but the isolation that looked so glamorous back on the mainland turns dark when the ghost of a lady poet comes calling, demanding that she unearth the island's secret history and her mysterious death. QUARTERFINALIST - NICHOLL FELLOWSHIP, SECOND ROUNDER - AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL, SELECTED - SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL HIGH SCRIBE LAB. Nicholl juror: "This script kicks ass. The writing is truly first-rate, ripe with visual metaphor, and the characters are so well done. This is a story about a single mother connecting with her daughters in a way that empowers them, not in an intellectual sense, but TRUE EMPOWERMENT." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/581aef66-963c-4e74-a516-1375a8a35eae/Bonnie+and+Clyde.jpg Work - Film & Television THE YEAR OF THE MOTH: A CRIME DRAMA In the winter of 1934, a small-town bank teller mourning the death of her mother becomes obsessed with bank robbers, Bonnie and Clyde. Through them, she finds a way to blaze above her grief and her mundane existence to truly become one of the LIVING, weaving the details of their life on the lam into a dazzling escape she’ll risk everything to achieve. FINALIST, TELEFILM'S PITCH THIS CONTEST AT THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/8df5c1f1-462c-4a96-8160-6691503bb0c8/Midnight+Son.png Work - Film & Television MIDNIGHT SON, AN ARCTIC NOIR DRAMA: On a dying farm in Alaska, an ex-addict is trapped by her blind husband, once her savior, now her captor. When an undocumented man appears seeking employment, their erotic connection brings her new life, inspiring a doomed flight to freedom that will end in murder. SELECTED FOR NYWIFT'S FROM SCRIPT TO PRE-PRODUCTION LAB. The Blacklist: "From its sparse writing style to its cast of compelling characters, Midnight Son is a unique, slow-burn character drama set amid the Alaskan frontier. The screenplay explores themes as varied as immigration, intolerance, mercy and faith — in many ways, Midnight Son functions as a meditation on the human condition." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/6b6f38db-0414-4c41-8301-f221b7d167f0/Antelope+poster.png Work - Film & Television THE ANTELOPE: AN ORIGINAL SCI-FI SERIES Out in California’s parched Antelope Valley, the baby daughter of a nineteen-year-old girl working in a nail salon goes missing. As ecological collapse looms, an ancient, alien race circles, and the girl’s mother is thrown into a desperate hunt to find her, triggering a mother-daughter love story that will span three decades and the entire cosmos. The Blacklist: "This is an exquisitely written pilot from a talented writer. Beyond an identifiable, haunting writer's voice, the script is consistently visually stunning, both on the page and as it might be imagined to be reproduced through the camera. Additionally, the narrative's atmosphere is tangible and hypnotic, working to build a world just south of normal. The characters are an utterly fascinating collection of odd, complex individuals crafted with an addictive humanity, and the writer should be commended for the sheer force and memorability found in the majority of the ensemble.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/07fe6965-40cd-4df7-a989-86483a2a864b/Baby+Saigon.png Work - Film & Television BABY SAIGON: A PUNK NOIR ORIGINAL SERIES A Vietnamese-American homicide detective is forced to dig into her past as a teenage refugee on the streets of Hollywood when she is called to the scene of a murder and discovers the victim to be her estranged bandmate, first love, and partner in a long- ago act of revolution. HONOURABLE MENTION FOR THE MAVEN SCREEN MEDIA FELLOWSHIP AT STOWE STORY LABS https://www.kerryelizabethmcpherson.com/work/shortfiction-lwf2x monthly 0.5 2023-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/f8fefe52-e3d0-4dea-acd6-07248daeccfb/IMG_4481.jpg Work - Short Fiction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/e2829706-087e-4e98-be82-65bebf62d9f4/Plant%3A+1.png Work - Short Fiction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64dd0106ae2b0f233ab9dd77/807ca0ca-f8bc-4615-afcd-210d076a4967/IMG_4477.jpg Work - Short Fiction