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November 25, 2015
November 23, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt is in Your Own Hands
“For she was the maker of the song she sang”~Wallace Stevens
Fighting fall depression, I make things to push back the dark, sewing painting, etc.
Make art about making, about being a maker.
#choosingjoy
MONDAY MUST READ! LYNN PEDERSEN: TIKTAALIK, ADIEU
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Lynn Pedersen. Lynn’s poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in New England Review,Ecotone, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, Palo Alto Review, and Heron Tree. She has two chapbooks, Tiktaalik, Adieu (2014 Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices Series) and Theories of Rain (2009 Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Choice Chapbook Series). A full-length collection, The Nomenclature of Small Things, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in early 2016. A graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Lynn’s website:
www.lynnpedersen.wordpress.com
Buy books!
Finishing Line Press
https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=2179
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Tiktaalik-Adieu-NWVS-Lynn-Pedersen/dp/1622297997
Praise for Tiktaalik, Adieu
Science looms large and lives well in Tiktaalik, Adieu. Pedersen’s lovely poems speak for, and to, our ever evolving, rapidly changing natural world, wherein the human animal seeks peace, or simply survival, from “resting place to resting place.” ~ Nance Van Winckel, author of Pacific Walkers
Lynn Pedersen gathers the world into her poems: its classical elements, its intricate patterns, its infinite mysteries. She makes gorgeous lyrics of stars and bone. ~Tania Rochelle, author ofKaraoke Funeral and The World’s Last Bone
Interviews/Reviews of Tiktaalik, Adieu:
https://chapbookinterviews.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/lynn-pedersen/
http://dailydoseoflit.com/2015/08/17/three-questions-lynn-pedersen/
Find more Lynn’s works online:
Heron Tree
“A Catalog of What We’re Not Meant to See” Heron Tree (2014)
http://herontree.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/pedersen2pdf.pdf
“Wilson’s Warbler” Heron Tree (2013)
http://herontree.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pedersen1pdf.pdf
Cider Press Review
“Begin” Cider Press Review (2014)
http://ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-16-1/begin/#.Vjdvy6SirmG
“Eve Paints the Apple Tree” Cider Press Review (2013)
http://ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-15-4/eve-paints-the-apple-tree/#.
November 22, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt’s in Bits & Pieces
Daily Prompt
Dreamt and dreamt but can only remember bits and pieces.
Make art about fragments of dreams.
November 21, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt is Fleeting
“nothing is truly mine except my name”~Stanley Kunitz
Make art about the body as temporary.
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November 20, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Seems to Be Following You
Daily Prompt
“We ran as if to meet the moon.”~Robert Frost
Make art about that Lady Moon
Sweet Sky Dancer outside my house tonight – Photo by me :-)
Friday Call for Submissions Love! Bluestem, until December 1
“Bluestem magazine is waiving submission fees for the month of November and seeking fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. Based out of Eastern Illinois University, Bluestem produces two quarterly online issues (September and December) and an annual spring print issue. Please submit no more than five poems at one time, or one short story, or one creative non fiction essay, or five black & white drawings. Fiction / prose / essays should be no longer than 5,000 words. All work is considered for both print and online publication.”
We only accept submissions via our online submission manager ,which can be accessed at bluestem.submittable.com.
Submissions close for the year on December 1.
November 19, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Takes You Home
Daily Prompt
“Man, you’re already home and you don’t even know it.
You have a room you can return to, and you’ll never outgrow it.
See, you’re already home when you don’t know where to find it.”
~The Antlers
Make art about refuge.
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #music #wordsmatter
November 18, 2015
Sometimes the Day is the Poem
If I could make days last forever
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