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Daily Prompt Catch Up! Get That Creativity On!

Away for a weekend manuscript consultation, so now we’re back to prompting! :-) 

1/9/2016

Snuggled up in the comfort of the beautiful Porches Writers Retreat. Make art about making a retreat.

1/10/2016

After days of winter rain, the clouds have gone, revealing blue blue sky. Make art about clearing skies.

1/11/2016

“Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.” G.K. Chesterton Make art inspired by a thrift store find.

 

Monday Must Read! Sarah Nichols: Edie (Whispering)

Monday Must Read!

This week meet Sarah Nichols, a writer living in Connecticut. Her chapbook, Edie (Whispering): Poems from Grey Gardens, was recently published by dancing girl press. Her first book, The Country of No, was published in 2012 by Finishing Line Press. Her poem, “My Stepmother Responds to My Recovered Memory,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Thank You for Swallowing. Her poems have also appeared inYellow Chair Review, Found Poetry Review, Right Hand Pointing, and Porkbelly Press’s Emily Anthology (2015).

Links to Sarah’s beautiful books

Edie (Whispering)(dancing girl press): Edie (Whispering): Poems from Grey Gardens | Sarah Nichols

Country of No (Finishing Line Press) https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=971

Read Sarah’s work online

“My Stepmother Responds to My Recovered Memory,” thankyouforswallowing.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/my-stepmother-responds-to-my-recovered-memory

“Batman’s Wife,” Yellow Chair Review: Yellow Chair Review – Pop Culture Issue 2015  (Pg. 60)

“The Secret,” Found Poetry Review, Volume Eight:volumeeight.foundpoetryreview.com/855

“Smoke Horse,” in Right Hand Pointing: www.righthandpointing.net/#!sarah-nichols/ci1b

Interview with Sarah

http://www.nicolerollender.com/carpe-noctem-blog/chapbook-interview-with-sarah-nichols

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

Friday Call For Submissions! Love Me Some Wildness :-)

 

WILDNESS

An Online Literary Journal

“Wildness wants work that evokes the unknown.

The lostness; the distance.

WE WANT STORIES THAT LINGER JUST OUT OF REACH.

We want to follow you into the blue that’s nestled inside your dreams.”

Guidelines

PUBLICATION CYCLE

We publish our online edition every two months. A print anthology will be released once a year.

EDITORIAL PROCESS

We aim to reply with either an acceptance or rejection within one month of submission. Please query if it has been longer.

 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We work on a rolling submissions basis.

There is no minimum length for poetry and prose, but please keep stories under 2,500 words and each poem under 80 lines. Please send us a short bio (written in third person) with your name and a little bit about you.

You can send your work in .doc or .pdf files.

OTHER DETAILS

Submissions must be original work and you must own all rights. The owner of the work retains all copyright. We currently only accept unpublished works; this includes website and personal blogs.

Submit via email to: submissions@readwildness.com

Wildness website: http://readwildness.com/

Sometimes The Day Is The Poem <3

“dreaming is believing”

who you are is miraculous  never forget that.

 

Sometimes the Prompt Is Suddenly Revealing

Daily Prompt

“The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.” ~Rebecca Solnit

Make art about an epiphany.

Sometimes The Prompt Stops You Cold

Daily Prompt
 
“I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.”~Sir Thomas Wyatt
 
Make art about the first freeze, about the big freeze, about freezing, or being frozen.
 
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Sometimes The Prompt Just Begins To Fall

Daily Prompt

“This, then, is the gift the world has given me/(you have given me)/softly the snow”~Diana Di Prima

Make art with first snow as the central metaphor.

Editing & Critique Services

Got book?

Via mail or face to face at The Porches, I offer a range of editing and consulting services for writers.

Let’s work together to make your beautiful work even better!

Details here!

http://marycarrollhackett.com/general-editing-services/

Very Special Call for Submissions

Very Special Call for Submissions

HIV Here & Now

from publisher Michael H. Broder 

It’s that time again. The submission and solicitation wells are dry. The HIV Here & Now Project WEBSITE needs new work FAST (I have nothing for today, for example, let alone the next 152 days). NEW OR PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED poems or short (up to 500 words) prose pieces. By any poet regardless of HIV status. Preferably touching on HIV in some way shape or form, even if metaphorical. Our key advocacy themes are testing, treatment, prevention, dispelling shame, and eliminating stigma. You can really use any of those ideas as a way into a poem that never even mentions HIV or AIDS. Or just any pieces you think would work on the site. You’re a poet! Use your imagination!!

While I appreciate the dedication, please do not submit if your work has already appeared on the site; we are trying not to repeat poets or writers.

Send work to michael@indolentbooks.com. Include a face pic and a brief bio emphasizing your publications.

Previous HIV Here & Now Project poets and writers, please solicit one poet or writer directly, post this on your timelines and share with your groups and other social networks. (I’ll tag 20 of you each week.)

http://www.hivhereandnow.com

Monday Must Read: Rebecca Foust: Paradise Drive

Monday Must Read!

This week meet Rebecca Foust, the author of three full-length poetry collections. Paradise Drive (Press 53 2015) winner of the 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry and among Shelf Unbound’s 100 Notable Books of 2015, has been reviewed or featured in more than 40 venues since its release in April. Foust collaborated with artist Lorna Stevens on God, Seed: Poetry & Art about the Natural World (Tebot Bach 2010), winner of a 2010 Foreword Book of the Year Award. All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (Many Mountains Moving 2010) won the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize, was a finalist for the Paterson Prize, and was nominated for the Poet’s Prize. Foust’s chapbooks, Dark Card (2008) and Mom’s Canoe (2009) won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize in consecutive years and were published by Texas Review Press. Her poems, essays, short stories and book reviews are widely published in the American Academy of Poets, Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Sewanee Review, and others. Foust was the 2014 Dartmouth Poet-in Residence, and her awards include The 2015 American Literary Review Writing Award for fiction, The 2014 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Award (Malahat Review) and fellowships from The Frost Place, the MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writing Conference, and West Chester Poetry Conference. The Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change and an assistant editor for Narrative Magazine, Foust lives in the San Franciso Bay Area with her husband.

Learn more :

http://rebeccafoust.com/

Buy Rebecca’s books here:

Paradise Drive

http://www.press53.com/Bio_Rebecca_Foust.html

God, Seed and All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song

All Books

http://www.bookpassage.com/search/site/rebecca%20foust

http://www.powells.com/SearchResults?kw=title:Rebecca%20Foust

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=rebecca+foust

Selected Poetry Online:

“Abeyance,” American Academy of Poets Poem-A-Day series 2015, http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/abeyance

“Courtesy Flush” and “Oops” reprinted in Poemeleon 2015, http://www.poemeleon.org/-rebecca-foust/

“The Notch,” “Bright Juice,” “Nuns Fret Not,” and “Dirt,” The Hudson Review, 2015, http://hudsonreview.com/2015/01/the-notch-bright-juice-nuns-fret-not-dirt/#.VnElSEorLV3

“Prayer for my New Daughter,” “Sufferance,” “Blame,” “Gratitude,” and “Only,” reprinted in Poethead 2015, https://poethead.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/sufferance-and-other-poems-by-rebecca-foust/

“Contradance” The Hopkins Review 2015, http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/the_hopkins_review/v008/8.2.foust.pdf

“Blazon” http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/14/winter/foust.php#1, “Promise Me,” http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/14/winter/foust.php#2, Cortland Review 2014 and “Petals,” Cortland Review 2012, http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/58/foust.php#1

“Biography,” “But What Can Wake You,” and “Eulogy,” Omniverse 2014, http://omniverse.us/poetry-rebecca-foust/

“Last Bison Gone” and “Perennial,” The Humanist 2011, http://thehumanist.com/magazine/march-april-2011/poetry/last-bison-gone

“Prodigal,” http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v14n2/v14n2poetry/foustprodigal.php and “Elocution Lesson,” http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/foustelocution.html in Valparaiso Poetry Review

“Dark Ecology,” “Spec House Foundation Cut into Hillside,” “Rebuke,” “Food-Not-Bombs” (2014), http://www.unf.edu/mudlark/flashes/foust.html and “Bee Fugue” (2011), https://www.unf.edu/mudlark/flashes/bee_fugue.html

“Don’t,” Bomb Magazine 2009, http://bombmagazine.org/article/4589/don-t

Broadsides from God, Seed: Poetry & Art about the Natural World with art by Lorna Stevens:

Tikkun Daily, 2011, http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2011/02/13/god-seed-poetry-and-art-about-the-natural-world/

Terrain 2009, http://terrain.org/poetry/24/god_seed/

Selected Essays and Book Reviews online:

Poetry Daily, 4/21/15, “Poet’s Pick” essay on “An Irish Airman Foresees his Death” by William Butler Yeats, http://poems.com/Poets’%20Picks%202015/0421_Foust.html

Interview of Susan Terris, “She Asked for Light,” Poetry Flash 2015, http://poetryflash.org/features/

Guest Blog for Brian A. Klems, “The Writer’s Dig,” Writer’s Digest, http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/its-never-too-late-on-becoming-a-writer-at-50

Guest Blog on “Writing Sonnets,” 4/12/15, Savvy Verse and Wit, http://savvyverseandwit.com/category/guest-post

Review of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, The Rumpus 2014, http://therumpus.net/2014/05/al-mutanabbi-street-starts-here-edited-by-beau-beausoleil-and-deema-shehabi/

Review of After the Firestorm by Susan Kolodny, Poetry Flash 2012, http://poetryflash.org/reviews/

Review of Bacchus Wynd by Catherine Edmunds, Wordgathering 2014, http://www.wordgathering.com/past_issues/issue30/reviews/edmunds.html

Review of Beamish Boy by Albert Flynn DeSilver The Rumpus 2013, http://therumpus.net/?s=beamish+boy

North American Review “Throwback Thursday” series, 9/7/15, http://northamericanreview.org/throwback-thursday-featuring-rebecca-foust-strip-mine-from-vol-292-2/

Weekly Poetry Columns for Women’s Voices for Change ,

http://womensvoicesforchange.org/category/the-arts/poetry

Selected Book Review links for Paradise Drive

San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Edition (Diana Whitney) http://m.sfgate.com/books/article/Poetry-John-Burnside-Jane-Hirshfield-Rebecca-6401935.php#photo-8336857

Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Edition (Frank Wilson)

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20151101_Rebecca_Foust_s__Paradise_Drive___In_the_lap_of_plenty__wishing_for_better.html#S80SLOE5OwgTRK6L.99

Washington Independent Review of Books (Grace Cavalieri) “National Poetry Month’s Best Picks,” http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/april-exemplars-national-poetry-months-best-picks-by-grace-cavalieri

The Huffington Post (Dean Rader) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-rader/three-books-for-autumn_b_8090182.html