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October 12, 2015
Monday Must Read! Natasha Kochicheril Moni, The Cardiologist’s Daughter
Monday Must Read!
Natasha Kochicheril Moni is a first-generation American of Dutch and Indian descent. Born in the North and raised in the South, she finds home in the Pacific Northwest. Natasha’s first full-length poetry collection, The Cardiologist’s Daughter, was released by Two Sylvias Press in late 2014. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews have been published in fifty journals including: Verse, DIAGRAM, [PANK], Hobart, Rattle, Indiana Review, and Fourteen Hills. In 2015, it was acknowledged on Straight Forward Press’s The Poetry Shopping List: Your Next Must Read.
She holds a BA in Child Development from Tufts University, received her Post-baccalaureate pre-medical certificate from Mills College, and is in her fourth year of naturopathic medical school at Bastyr University.
Website: http://www.natashamoni.com/
Natasha’s Poetry:
Toasted Cheese Literary Journal
Support your local WA State bookstores/poet by buying a copy of The Cardiologist’s Daughter at one of the following locations:
Washington State
Edmonds
Port Townsend
The Writers’Workshoppe/Imprint Books
Seattle
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Open Books
Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park)
Tacoma
Or purchase a paperback or Kindle version online through Amazon
Reviews of The Cardiologist’s Daughter:
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
October 11, 2015
Daily Prompts All Caught Up! Git Some Beautiful Art On!
Middle of the semester craziness got me behind on updating prompts :-) But now we’re all caught up! And don’t forget to check the Writing Prompts page for tons more!
http://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/
9/30/2015
Daily Prompt Things you miss: laughing together, the shared quiet of dawn, touching his skin. Make art about Love’s small gestures.
10/1/2015
Daily Prompt :-D woke up late and so has procrastinated almost everything today :-D Make art about putting things off :-D
10/2/2015
Daily Prompt “Once I had 1000 roses. Literally 1000 roses.”~John Ciardi Make art about abundance.
10/3/2015
Daily Prompt “They knew they were born to weep”~Pedro Pietri Make art about hard lives.
10/4/2015
Daily Prompt “Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers.”~Delmore Schwartz Make art about dogs. Or children. Or dogs and children.
10/5/2015
Daily Prompt Helping someone today start a new chapter of life. Make art about new beginnings.
10/6/2015
Daily Prompt “Choose to be kind.”~my mama Make art about kindness.
10/7/2015
Daily Prompt Working with my students on layers of meaning. Make art that is deliberately layered.
10/8/2015
Daily Prompt “I can hear her through the thin wall, singing”~Patrick Phillips Make art about singing in the distance.
10/9/2015
So many papers to finish grading, so much on the to-do list. Make art about feeling overwhelmed.
10/10/2015
Daily Prompt I practice BuyNothingChristmas, so the holiday work starts early smile emoticon So I’ll be spending the weekend startin to make handmade gifts. Make art where less is more.
10/11/2015
Daily Prompt “Three silent women at the kitchen table.”~Anne Carson Make art about the silence of women.
October 10, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt is Free
I practice BuyNothingChristmas, so the holiday work starts early :-) So I’ll be spending the weekend startin to make handmade gifts.
Make art where less is more.
October 6, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt is Kind
“Choose to be kind.”~my mama
Make art about kindness.
October 5, 2015
Monday Must Read: Jeannine Hall Gailey, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Jeannine Hall Gailey She is the author of four books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess,She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, and The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, new in 2015 from Mayapple Press. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review and Prairie Schooner. Jeannine recently served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington.
Visit Jeannine’s web site: www.webbish6.com
Follow Jeannine on Twitter! @webbish6
Find Jeannine’s beautiful books!
The Robot Scientist’s Daughter:
http://mayapplepress.com/the-robot-scientists-daughter-jeannine-hall-gailey/
“Dazzling in its descriptions of a natural world imperiled by the hidden dangers of our nuclear past, this book presents a girl in search of the secrets of survival. In The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Jeannine Hall Gailey creates for us a world of radioactive wasps, cesium in the sunflowers, and robotic daughters. She conjures the intricate menace of the nuclear family and nuclear history, juxtaposing surreal cyborgs, mad scientists from fifties horror flicks and languid scenes of rural childhood. Mining her experience growing up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the writer allows the stories of the creation of the first atomic bomb, the unintended consequences of scientific discovery, and building nests for birds in the crooks of maple trees to weave together a reality at once terrifying and beautiful.The Robot Scientist’s Daughter reveals the underside of the Manhattan Project from a personal angle, and charts a woman’s – and America’s – journey towards reinvention.”
Becoming the Villainess:
http://www.steeltoebooks.com/books/3-books/books/44-becoming-the-villainess
Unexplained Fevers:
http://webbish6.com/books/unexplained-fevers/
She Returns to the Floating World:
http://webbish6.com/books/she-returns-to-the-floating-world/
Praise for Jeannine Hall Gailey’s work:
In The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Jeannine Hall Gailey charts the dangerous secrets in a nuclear family as well as a nuclear research facility. Her ecofeminist approach to the making of bombs, celebrates our fragile natural world. Full of flowers and computers, this riveting poetry captures the undeniable compromises and complexities of our times.— Denise Duhamel
What is her story? “In this story,” Jeannine Gailey tells us, “a girl grows up in a field of nuclear reactors. She gives us lessons in poison. And as we watch this heroine appear from various angles, in multiple lights we realize that just like this girl who “made birds’ nests / with mud and twigs, hoping that birds would / come live in them.” Gailey makes an archetype for a contemporary American woman whom she sees as beautiful — and damaged — and proud — and unafraid. And the Scientist? He “lives alone in a house made of snow. / If he makes music, no one hears it.” America? It builds barbed wire “to keep enemies out of its dream” – but we all are surrounded by these barbed wires of a country whose “towns melt into sunsets, into dust clouds, into faces.” In subtle, playful, courageous poems, we are witnessing a brilliant performance.— Ilya Kaminsky
More from Jeannine online!
Rattle: http://www.rattle.com/poetry/elemental-by-jeannine-hall-gailey
2River: http://www.2river.org/2RView/10_4/poems/gailey.html
Atticus Review: http://atticusreview.org/featuring-jeannine-hall-gailey/
Verse Daily! http://www.versedaily.org/2015/aboutjeanninehallgailey.shtml
Interview:
http://jackstraw.org/blog/?p=578
Hear Jeannine Read:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ0mCEbCQ-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu5j7BjnorU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxwncJ7KACg
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
October 1, 2015
Sometimes Late Is the Prompt :-)
10/1/2015
Daily Prompt
:-D woke up late and so has procrastinated almost everything today :-D Make art about putting things off :-D
September 30, 2015
Sometimes What You Miss is the Prompt
9/30/2015
Daily Prompt
Things you miss: laughing together, the shared quiet of dawn, touching his skin.
Make art about Love’s small gestures.
September 29, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt is Detailed in the Instructions :-)
Daily Prompt
I’ll give y’all the prompt I gave my Baby Poets last night :-)
Write a How To piece (poem, story, essay), building something creative and beautiful out of a set of instructions.
I told them if they would send me titles, I’d write one too, using one of their titles, so today, I’ll be writing either How To Walk a Dog or How To Walk Down Stairs.
September 28, 2015
Monday Must Read! Pam Uschuk, Crazy Love and Blood Flower
Monday Must Read! Pam Uschuk
This week meet Pam Uschuk. Political activist and wilderness advocate, Pam Uschuk has howled out six books of poems, including Crazy Love, winner of a 2010 American Book Award, and Wild In The Plaza Of Memory. A new collection of poems, Blood Flower, was released in February 2015.
Translated into more than dozen languages, Pam’s work appears in over three hundred journals and anthologies worldwide, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni Review, etc. Uschuk has been awarded the 2011 War Poetry Prize from WINNING WRITERS, 2010 New Millenium Poetry Prize, 2010 Best of the Web, the Struga International Poetry Prize (for a theme poem), the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, the King’s English Poetry Prize and prizes from Ascent, Iris, and Amnesty International.
Editor-In-Chief of Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts, Uschuk lives in Bayfield, Colorado. Uschuk is often a featured writer at the Prague Summer Programs, teaches occasional workshops for the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, and was the 2011 John C. Hodges Visiting Writer at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She’s working on a multi-genre book called The Book of Healers Healing: An Odyssey Through Ovarian Cancer.
Buy Pam’s Beautiful Books!
Blood Flower: http://wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=193
Crazy Love: http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=104
Wild in the Plaza of Memory: http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=141
More of Pam’s books here!
http://www.wingspress.com/author.cfm?author_ID=24
Read More from Pam online:
http://www.coloradopoetscenter.org/poets/uschuk_pamela/
http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/uschuk.html
http://www.terrain.org/poetry/24/uschuk.htm
Hear Pam Read: https://vimeo.com/74141138
Praise for Pam’s Work!
“Like Lorca, Uschuk is a poet of the duende, that mystical Spanish conception; she views the poem as a vehicle for fierce engagement with the body and its social realities, often with a metaphysical awareness that transcends and extends the corporeal into the natural world. Working a poetics rare for a North American writer, Uschuk has crafted a poetry equally steeped in nature and political resistance. This is an ecological poetics of engagement, a mythic poetry—part Lorca, part Rachel Carson.”–Sean Thomas Dougherty, RAIN TAXI, 2012
“American Book Award–winner Uschuk’s new collection of meditative, delectably powerful poems offers a steady and generous solace that serves as a platform for thought-provoking glimpses into spirit, family, and feeling. She has written of a tethered reality, commonplace secrets, and emotional rescue. And she is political. Among the more than 40 poems, “Red Menace” (“After all of these years / it’s clear what it was / those teachers couldn’t name— / not just the consonants but the roots, / the skin drums”) and “Black Swan” (“Grandfather, what purpose can you discern / now your entitled eyes are soil, / your heart going to anthracite?”) are standouts. In the same vein as her contemporaries Patricia Smith and Joy Harjo, Uschuk is strong in metaphor, urgent in language, and powerful in vivisection.” — Mark Eleveld
September 27, 2015
DailyPrompt Catch-Up
DailyPrompt Catch-Up
9/25/2015
Road trip to visit with my daughter and son-in-law. Early early morning arrival. “What remains for us has always been what’s arriving”~Wayne Miller Make art about arrival, about what’s arriving.
9/26/2015
Did a little bargaining at the farmer’s market. Haggling is an integral part of the shopping experience in many cultures, and should be considered a game, rather than a battle. Make art about haggling or bargaining.
9/27/2015
Dreamt I was weaving a flower chain necklace for a child, whose bright laughter I heard from a distance. Make art about laughter, the catharsis of laughter, the gift of mirth.
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