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Sometimes You Have To Give the Prompt Away

Daily Prompt 

“I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”~Kahlil Gibran

Just wrote an email to a famous person on behalf of a former student, not at the student’s request, but just because i believe the student’s amazing and if nothing else, I can put the kid’s name in front of someone, And yeah it’s a totally idealistic shot in the dark, but what the hey? Lifetime mantra: The worst they can do is tell me No, right? And if they do, then I’m no worse off than I was before I asked. :-) 

Survival tip #1 for me? When the moment feels darkest, do something good and loving for someone else. That’s what brings the Light

Make art about healing through generosity. 

 

Sometimes the Prompt Sets You Free

Daily Prompt


 


“I am in love, hence free to live by heart”~Vera Pavlova


 


Make art about freedom.




 

What Makes Our Writing Community So Beautiful! MockingHeart Review

Thanks and Love to that angel Clare L. Martin for helping to celebrate Trailer Park Oracle over at her beautiful journal MockingHeart Review!

Generosity and sacred hearts like Clare’s are what make our community of writers such a blessing

I tell my students, “Community doesn’t just happen. We have to take care of each other.”

If you haven’t yet, please visit and support MockingHeart Review!

Spread the Love, y’all!

Trailer Park Oracle! So Excited! My newest book released!

Special delivery today!

 

Thanks to Karen Kelsay Davies and Aldrich Press for giving these crazy little poems a home

Trailer Park Oracle now available on Amazon, y’all! Get it here! 

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This is a book that peers from the edges of wild places: from the flickerings of a French film to the heady thrills of train trestles, from the doorways of long-abandoned houses to the quiet of the vigils at the hospital bed. With a voice both gentle and fierce, Carroll-Hackett’s poems are unafraid to see us as the aching creatures we are, to ask the hard questions of language and loss, not even flinching as they reveal the wonder and pain of our very world like the title poem’s Oracle, “calling them as they played, no cushioning of the blow.”

— Amy Tudor, author of A Book of Birds and Studies in Extinction

The needs that haunt our lives also haunt Mary Carroll-Hackett’s newest collection. In Trailer Park Oracle, there is a need for food and love, and to find the true self. But Carroll-Hackett also reminds us that among all of the shining things in this world, we might sometimes forget who we are. “So you repeat, some mantra you think you’re making, until it all just becomes shaking.” Through the rich narrative of this collection, we are reminded of the path back to ourselves, how “the seed knew, at last, its own light.”

–Julie Brooks Barbour, author of Small Chimes

These poems are anchored in love – stubborn, earth-bound, unrelenting love and the generosity that it engenders. And while Carroll-Hackett is NOT the oracle of the title, she is a diviner nevertheless, looking through the quotidian – bread & blankets, Ferris wheels & automotive transmissions, dead deer and starving bears – for clues to the mysterious nature of our human hearts.

–Doug Van Gundy, author of A Life Above Water 

 

Sometimes the Day IS the Poem

Sometimes the Prompt Takes You Far From Home

Daily Prompt

“Never a prophet in your own land.”~Luke 4:24

Make art about a modern-day prophet. 

 

Sometimes the Prompt Leaves Muddy Footprints

Make art about a wet dog.

Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Crazy :-)

Daily Prompt 

Another snow day here, and one of my pups is already feeling like she’s been inside too long :-)

Make art about Cabin Fever.

Monday Must Read! Sandra Marchetti, Confluence

This week, meet Sandra Marchetti, the author of Confluence, a debut full-length collection of poetry from Sundress Publications. She is also a co-author of Heart Radicals, a forthcoming chapbook of love poems from ELJ Publications. Eating Dog Press published an illustrated letterpress edition of her essays and poetry, A Detail in the Landscape, and her first volume, The Canopy, won Midwest Writing Center’s Mississippi Valley Chapbook Contest. Gulf Coast, Phoebe, and Prick of the Spindle have honored Sandra’s work in recent annual contests and her poetry appears widely in Subtropics, Ecotone, Green Mountains Review, Word Riot, Blackbird, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. Her essays and reviews can be found at The Rumpus, Words Without Borders, Mid-American Review and other venues. Sandra’s poetry and prose is anthologized in New Poetry from the Midwest, Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, The World is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, and other volumes. She lives outside of Chicago with her husband.

Learn More:

https://www.facebook.com/sandywritingservices/

http://www.pw.org/content/sandra_marchetti

http://eljpublications.com/our-authors/sandra-marchetti/

Links to Purchase Books:

https://squareup.com/market/sundress-publications/confluence-by-sandra-marchetti-pre-order

http://www.mwcqc.org/books/the-canopy-by-sandra-marchetti/

Reviews of Confluence:

http://therumpus.net/2015/03/confluence-by-sandra-marchetti/

http://lit.newcity.com/2015/07/20/looking-at-longing-chicago-poet-sandra-marchetti-debuts-with-confluence/

http://www.raintaxi.com/confluence/

Links to Read Poems Online:

http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/january-2014-sandra-marchetti.html

http://www.splitlipmagazine.com/#!14-sandra-marchetti/c1pwa

http://themuseumofamericana.net/current-issue/poetry/three-poems-by-sandra-marchetti/

http://www.wordriot.org/archives/7484

http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/grace-by-sandra-marchetti/

Links to Listen/Watch Sandy Online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5m34WhZoRc

https://vimeo.com/125487102

http://sugarhousereviewblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-sound-of-sugarsandra-marchetti.html

http://www.menacinghedge.com/summer2014/entry-marchetti.php

Interviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07wPT0pxXyw

https://geosireads.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/interview-with-sandra-marchetti-author-of-confluence/

http://entropymag.org/getting-lit-round-4-with-sandra-marchetti/

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

Sometimes the Prompt Is the Heart of It All

Valentine Prompt :-) from a favorite poem by a favorite poet


 


“The heart shifts shape of its own accord—from bird to ax, from pinwheel


to budded branch”~Dorianne Laux


 


Make art about the heart.