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November 10, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt is on Fire
Daily Prompt
“When born you inherit what’s burning.”~Liam Rector Tattooed on my right arm. Considering the courage of the activists at University of Missouri.
Make art about protest.
November 9, 2015
Daily Prompt Catch-Up!
Daily Prompt Catch-Up
November 7
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”~ Joseph Campbell
Make art about braving the darkness.
November 8
Wrote a poem today called “The List of Dangers.”
Make art about an unexpected form of danger.
November 9
Keep hearin the song Little Boxes this morning. Most people now know it as the theme song for the TV show Weeds, but it originally was recorded in 1961 by American folk artist Malvina Reynolds.
Make art inspired by little boxes.
Monday Must Read! Christine Stoddard: The Children of Jackson Ward
This week meet Christine Stoddard, a Salvadoran-Scottish-American writer and artist. In 2014, Folio Magazine named her one of the media industry’s top 20 visionaries in their 20s for starting Quail Bell Magazine. She also is a Puffin Foundation national emerging artist. She has edited two anthologies for Quail Bell Magazine, in addition to co-authoring Images of America: Richmond Cemeteries and directing a documentary on Edgar Allan Poe.
Currently, she is completing her book, Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia, for The History Press. Christine’s work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, So to Speak, The New York Transit Museum, Bustle, Yellow Chair Review, the Poe Museum, local PBS stations, and beyond.
In early 2016, Christine will be participating in Tupelo Press’ 30/30 Project and completing a writing residency at Sundress Academy for the Arts.
Learn more about her at www.wordsmithchristine.com
More from Christine online!
The Children of Jackson Ward, an art project with a social justice perspective. http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/about/the-children-of-jackson-ward-manuscript
YesPoetry
http://yespoetry.com/post/108735306281/photo-poetry-christine-stoddard
Brooklyn Quarterly
http://brooklynquarterly.org/tbq-artist-series-christine-stoddard/
The Poet Time
Fourth and Sycamore
http://fourthandsycamore.com/2015/09/14/my-nightingale-a-poem-by-christine-stoddard/
Video
The Persistence of Poe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eKwn5D8Vg
Everyday Seeing (from The Children of Jackson Ward)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRWdDriov4
Nine Flights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWVgBHla2Bk
Chalk Poetry
Before Morning Sobers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtFJu_XHvhI
November 6, 2015
Another New Journal Seeking Submissions for Inaugural Issue: Courtship of Winds!
The Courtship Of Winds
Submissions accepted year-round.
“It goes without saying that we are looking to publish the best work. For details regarding submissions and a sense of the editorial direction of The Courtship of Winds go towww.thecourtshipofwinds.org.
We are interested in publishing “unknowns,” as well as well-established writers. A writer who has published absolutely nothing will be read the same way as a prize-winning “name” writer. Work that does something not seen before or, more to the point, makes us see differently—call it avant-garde, experimental, or what you like—is always welcome.”
Sometimes the Prompt is What the Heart Remembers
Daily Prompt
“I know I’ve loved you before.”~Melissa Etheridge
Make art about other lives, about remembering Love.
November 5, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Just Makes Good Sense
“After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things”~Wallace Stevens
Make art about the practicality of autumn.
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #wordsmatter
November 4, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Really Hurts My Heart
LateNightDailyPrompt
Spent the day workin on a meal planning/shopping/cooking tutorial for some of my students who struggle with making their food dollars stretch.
In 2014:
46.7 million people (14.8 percent) were in poverty.
15.5 million (21.1 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty.
4.6 million (10 percent) seniors 65 and older were in poverty.
The overall poverty rate according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure is 15.3 percent, as compared with the official poverty rate of 14.8 percent.[ii]
Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure, there are 48.4 million people living in poverty, nearly 2 million more than are represented by the official poverty measure (46.7 million).
48.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 32.8 million adults and 15.3 million children.
And this doesn’t even begin to touch the problems of global hunger.
Make art about literal, physical, hunger.
November 3, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt is Rebellious
Make art about protest, or art that IS protest.
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #protest #wordsmatter
November 2, 2015
New Comic Book Company! Artists Taking Care of Artists–and Our Community!
Okay all my artist and art-loving friends!
I just donated to support this savvy and talented young artist, one of my amazing alums, Alex Odom in his efforts to support a whole network of other artists! Hear the good work from Alex himself!
PLUME SNAKE
“My name is Alex Odom, I’m a comic book creator and the president of Plume Snake. I’ve been a freelance writer for over ten years—a comic book writer for three. Over those years, I’ve worked with a lot of different publishers and producers, and based on those experiences, I developed a template for how I want to be treated as a writer and an artist. So when I set out to build a comic book company, I made that template the core of the business plan. This isn’t just a new comic book company; it’s a new kind of comic book company, a better market for independent comic creators to distribute their work.
Our network of creators will be paid 60% of net profits!
Our creators retain ALL rights to their work!
Plume Snake is focused on creating a platform for people in all communities to tell the stories they are most passionate about!
Plume Snake is committed to keeping costs low to connect more fans with the work!
Become a Patron of the Comic Book Arts!
Plume Snake is dedicated to putting our comic book and graphic novel creators first; that’s why Plume Snake’s network of creators will receive 60% of net profits from membership sales, and retain the rights to their work. It’s my sincere hope that Plume Snake will become a vehicle for many creative people to have the freedom to earn a living doing the work they are most passionate about. Plume Snake has the potential to connect more people with a wide range of different perspectives and illustration styles.
Your contribution will help make that a reality!
No donation too small!
As artists, we have to take care of each other! Donate! Pass it on!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-launch-plume-snake#/
Monday Must Read! Jennifer K. Sweeney: Little Spells
Monday Must Read!
This week, meet Jennifer K. Sweeney, the author of three poetry collections: Little Spells, newly released from New Issues Press, How to Live on Bread and Music, which received the James Laughlin Award, the Perugia Press Prize and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, and Salt Memory. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, a Hedgebrook residency, the Elinor Benedict Poetry Award from Passages North and two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg awards. Recent poems have appeared in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Linebreak, Mid-American Review, New American Writing, Pleiades, and Verse Daily.
Jennifer’s Website:
http://www.jenniferksweeney.com/
Get Jennifer’s Beautiful Books!
Little Spells
http://www.wmich.edu/newissues/titles/sweeney-littlespells.html
How to Live on Bread and Music
http://www.perugiapress.com/books/how-to-live-on-bread-and-music/
Read more of Jennifer’s work online!
Academy of American Poets
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jennifer-k-sweeney
The Noe Valley Voice
http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/2010/July-August/OVJS.htm
Connotation Press
http://www.connotationpress.com/featured-guest-editor/may-2010/427-jennifer-k-sweeney-poetry
Linebreak
https://linebreak.org/poems/the-somnambulist/
Hear Jennifer read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csxTf4xmK8k
Interviews
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/01/poet_jennifer_k_sweeney_discus.html
At Donna Vorreyer’s Fill in the Blanks
https://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/fill-in-the-blanks-with-jennifer-k-sweeney/
http://tinderboxeditions.blogspot.com/2015/07/book-interview-little-spells-by.html
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
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