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December 15, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Requires Action
First week in the online class is all about defining activism, personal and professional.
Make art rooted in action.
December 14, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Is A Tender Touch
Daily Prompt
Thinkin of all the loving care my nurse mama and sister gave their patients for decades.
Make art about nurses, about caretakers.
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Monday Must Read! Shaindel Beers: The Children’s War
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Shaindel Beers, the author of two full-length poetry collections, A Brief History of Time (2009) and The Children’s War and Other Poems (2013), both from Salt Publishing. Her awards include First place Karen Fredericks and Frances Willitts Poetry Prize, Grand Prize Co-winner Trellis Magazine sestina contest, First place Dylan Days Poetry Competition, and others. She currently serves as English department chair at Blue Mountain Community College, as Poetry Editor forContrary Magazine, and on the executive board of PAWS, the Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter. She lives in Pendleton, Oregon, with a zoo of pets and a wild four-year-old son.
Learn more
Official Site of Shaindel Beers
Buy Shaindel’s beautiful books!
A Brief History of Time
http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/a-brief-history-of-time-9781844715053
The Children’s War and Other Poems
http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-children-s-war-9781844719303
Read More From Shaindel Online:
“Death, Sleep, Beauty” by Shaindel Beers | Pine Hills Review
http://www.voiceinjournal.com/shaindel-beers-the-imprecision-of-language/
An American Meditation — Poetry by Shaindel Beers
http://www.theenchantingverses.org/uploads/4/6/1/6/461698/shaindelbeers.pdf
http://ithacalit.com/shaindel-beers.html#.Vm7AYEorLDd
http://www.shadowgraphquarterly.com/shadowgraph-quarterly-winter-2015/shaindel-beers/
Essays by and about Shaindel:
“Creep”: Thoughts on Abuse and Survival » Real Pants
Hundreds of Dollars | i believe you | it’s not your fault
Hot Teachers, Gaslighting, and Sexual Abuse in Academia: Reflecting on Essays by Shaindel Beers by Leslie Salas
Hear Shaindel read:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1wdbxsNAc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2tucUP8yYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-ETvj3LeE
December 13, 2015
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Now that all my grades are in!
12/9/2015
Up to my eyes in grading for the end of the semester. Make art about a teacher, or teaching.
12/10/2015
Doing an Interview Skills Consultation today. Make art involving questions and answers.
12/11/2015
Last day of grading, semester ending. Make art about something coming to an end.
12/12/2015
Had the most amazing conversation last night, with two young men servin in the Army, both scheduled for deployment in the next few months. One of the young men openly talked about the role faith plays in his life. He spoke with deep compassion of even the enemy he has trained to engage, and I was humbled and awed at how much grace and humanity these young warriors show. Make art about warriors.
12/13/2015
Make art about decompressing.
de·com·press
(dē′kəm-prĕs′)
v. de·com·pressed, de·com·press·ing, de·com·press·es
v.tr.
1. To relieve of pressure or compression.
2. To bring (a person exposed to conditions of increased pressure) gradually back to normal atmospheric pressure.
v.intr.
1. To adjust to normal atmospheric conditions after being exposed to increased pressure.
2. Informal To relax: decompressed after 12 hours of driving.
Happy Creating!
December 11, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Comes to an End
Last day of grading, semester ending. Make art about something coming to an end.
Friday Call For Submissions Love! TulipTree Review
TulipTree Review
Stories That Need To Be Told
TULIPTREE REVIEW is a quarterly print literary journal accepting submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. There is no reading fee and authors whose works are accepted will receive free subscriptions. For guidelines and contact information, visit www.tuliptreepub.com.
GENERAL SUBMISSIONS
No Reading Fee
You can submit your work at any time for free if you would like to be considered for publication in the TulipTree Review.
How It Works
General submissions are not eligible for cash prizes. If your work is selected for publication in TulipTree Review, you will receive a one-year subscription toTulipTree Review.
How to Format Your Submission
Entries should be in Microsoft Word-compatible or PDF format and sent as an attachment to an email (not in the body of the email).
Fiction and nonfiction entries should be double-spaced.
Poetry format is open; for general submissions please put all of the poems in one document.
INCLUDE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION
In the body of your email…
Include your name, mailing address, and title(s) of the work(s) you are submitting.
Include a bio that will appear with your work if it’s published.
Also, because we are usually accepting submissions for various anthologies as well as the journal, please indicate in the subject or body that your submission is for TulipTree Review.
On your submission…
Include your name, mailing address, email address, and title of the work on the first page.
Word Limits
There are no word limits (min. or max.) for general submissions.
Legal Stuff
By submitting your work, you are stating and agreeing that (1) the work is your own original work, (2) no one else owns the rights to publish said work, and (3) you are granting TulipTree Publishing, LLC (TulipTree) the right to publish said work, unless you withdraw your work prior to TulipTree’s decision to publish.
TulipTree does not retain rights to your work after we publish it. If it is published again we ask only for an acknowledgment in the new publication (e.g., “previously published in TulipTree Review,” etc.).
How to Submit
Email general submissions to submissions@tuliptreepub.com.
December 8, 2015
Hundreds of writing and creativity prompts here!!
Check it out and share! Thanks!
Don’t Miss the Writing Prompts Page!
http://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/
December 7, 2015
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Naming & Healing
12/5/2015
I haven’t put up a Christmas tree since 2011, the year both my husband and brother walked on to the next life. This year, I’m finally putting one up again, and covering it with crazy little angels I’ve been handmaking from clay and fabric for several weeks. I’m calling it my Healing Tree. Make art about healing.
12/6/2015
Quiet Sunday morning with my son. Make art about quiet.
12/7/2015
“So many names, my mother, I’m never sure what to call you.”~Rudy Make art about names, about naming.
Monday Must Read! Sarah Busse: Do It Yourself Airplanes
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Sarah Sadie (Sarah Busse). Sarah is co-editor of Cowfeather Press and one of the Poets Laureate of Madison, Wisconsin (2012-2015). Her poems and books have won the Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Niedecker and Posner Prizes, as well as a Pushcart. Her most recent chapbook, Do-It-Yourself Paper Airplanes, was published in 2015 by Five Oaks Press.
Sarah teaches online at the Loft, at the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival, and occasionally elsewhere. These days you can find her blogging at Dowsing for Divinity on the Patheos Pagan channel, tweeting as @sarahsadie1313 and occasionally posting articles, pictures and notes of interest at sarahsadiesadiesarah.tumblr.com. This month she is participating in Tupelo Press’s 30/30 poetry challenge.
Buy Sarah’s beautiful books!
Do-It-Yourself Paper Airplanesc
http://five-oaks-press.com/our-titles/
Somewhere Piano
http://mayapplepress.com/somewhere-piano-sarah-busse/
Given These Magics
Visit Cowfeather Press
Follow Sarah on Tumblr:
http://sarahsadiesadiesarah.tumblr.com/
Read More of Sarah Online
http://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=442
http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/busse.htm
http://www.dmqreview.com/nov02/bussej.html
http://www.dmqreview.com/nov02/busseo.html
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/03/sarah-busse-evening-walk-mid-march.html
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
December 4, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Requires Action
Daily Prompt
Mornin news story on how law enforcement s now strongly encouragin people to report it if their neighbors are actin odd or “suspicious.” One of the signs they mentioned is havin lots of deliveries, like from UPS. If this is the standard, I’m screwed. Totalitarianism for breakfast :-(
Because I think we need to….Make art about resistance.
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For the Consideration of Poets
by Haki Madhubuti
where is the poetry of resistance,
the poetry of honorable defiance
unafraid of lies from career politicians and business men,
not respectful of journalist who write
official speak void of educated thought
without double search or sub surface questions
that war talk demands?
where is the poetry of doubt and suspicion
not in the service of the state, bishops and priests,
not in the service of beautiful people and late night promises,
not in the service of influence, incompetence and academic
clown talk?
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