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Sometimes the Prompt is the Ritual

9/14/2015

Daily Prompt

“Like primitives we buried the cat with his bowl”~Jane Kenyon

Make art about burial rituals, about our need for rites.

Monday Must Read! Sam Rasnake: Cinéma Vérité

Monday Must Read! Sam Rasnake: Cinéma Vérité

This week meet Sam Rasnake. Sam’s works, receiving five nominations for the Pushcart Prize, have appeared in OCHO, Wigleaf, Big Muddy,Literal Latté, Poem, Pebble Lake Review, Poets/Artists, New World Writing, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Santa Fe Literary Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, as well as the anthologies MiPOesias Companion 2012, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Best of the Web 2009, LUMMOX 2012, Flash Fiction Fridays, BOXCAR Poetry Review Anthology 2, Deep River Apartments, The Lost Children, and Dogzplot Flash Fiction 2011.

He is the author of Necessary Motions (Sow’s Ear Press, 1998), Religions of the Blood (Pudding House Press, 1998), Lessons in Morphology (GOSS183, 2010) and Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press, 2010). His latest poetry collection is Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press 2013). His latest poetry collection is Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press 2013).

He is chapbook editor for Sow’s Ear Poetry Review and has served as a judge for the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, University of California, Berkeley, and from 2001-2010 was editor of Blue Fifth Review. Since 2011, Rasnake has edited, with Michelle Elvy, the Blue Five Notebook Series from BFR.

Sam’s website: https://samofthetenthousandthings.wor...

Get Sam’s beautiful books!

Cinéma Vérité

(from fabulous A-Minor Press!):  https://www.createspace.com/4377102

Inside a Broken Clock: 

`https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=660

 

Read more of Sam’s work online:

http://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/1129-sam-rasnake-poetry

http://www.fwrictionreview.com/post/28048617961/three-poems-by-sam-rasnake

http://www.coriummagazine.com/?page_id=179

http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com/2013/06/some-last-things-by-sam-rasnake-so-many.html

 

Hear Sam Read his beautiful work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSOx7D62-NA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrBm91nmX6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjoGRro_1VQ

 

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

Sometimes the Prompt Catches You Unaware

9/13/2015 Woke up hearing the heavens singing :-) Had to share

Daily Prompt

“I heard an Angel singing/ When the day was springing/ Mercy Pity Peace…”~William Blake

Make art about everyday angels.

Sometimes the Prompt Cuts Deeply

9/12/2015

Daily Prompt

Cutting out a new skirt this morning. Love to see it emerge from the fabric, the art of cutting away. Make art about this emergence from cutting away;

or reenvision one of these old adages, making us see it in some new way:

cut out, cut off, cut bait, cut the cord, cut loose, cut to the chase, a cut above, cut and dried, cut a rug, cut and paste, unkindest cut, cut to the bone, cut and run, cut from the same cloth,cuts both ways.

Friday Call for Submissions Love! Gravel Lit Mag Wants You to Shake Them Up

 

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

 

Gravel Literary Magazine

 

Send Your Unforgettable Work

Online submissions accepted July-May.

Gravel is accepting submissions of comics, graphics, art, photography, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. We are publishing book reviews of newly released or forthcoming books.We are also interested in author interviews. Please don’t send us previously published work. We want work that will shake us up a bit. Work that will make us question our personal beliefs. Work that three days later will make us laugh once again. Submit here: gravel.submittable.com/submit.

 

About

This magazine is produced by the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Monticello editorial staff.

 

Guidelines:

We are presently accepting original, unpublished works (including posting it on any website blog, deviant art, anywhere it can be found on the web). In particular, we are interested in fiction and creative nonfiction anywhere from 25 to 2,500 words in length, poetry (no more than 3 poems per submission, and you can submit all of them at the same time on Submittable), photo essays, artwork, comics, video, hybrid—look, we’ve got eclectic tastes here. Don’t be afraid to submit works that defy form or genre. We cannot pay you, but if it makes you feel better, we’re not getting paid either.

If your work is accepted, we will request an image that represents you (you can interpret this however you’d like) to be included with your bio.

Please keep your images below 5 MB for bios and art submissions. If for some odd reason we need a larger image, we will contact you.

We do not reprint work published elsewhere, in any form, this includes work that has been published in print magazines, blogs, or anywhere online. It’s disheartening to publish something, then realize that it is posted somewhere else.

Please do not submit new work until after you hear from us regarding your first submission. If your work is accepted for publication, please wait 6 months before submitting again. We like to showcase as many writers and artists as possible.

We do not accept submissions from current UAM MFA students.

We don’t charge our readers a fee to submit, but we get charged after we have 300 submissions. It helps us if writers submit their submissions all at once, not separately, because that can increase our operations costs.

 

Sometimes the Prompt Tastes Like Rain

9/10/2015

Daily Prompt

“The taste of every living thing is in the raindrop”~Afaa Michael Weaver

Make art about the taste of weather.

 

Sometimes the Memory Is the Poem <3

Woke up hearing someone sing this

Needed reminder that bodies may end, but Love never does.

Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Salvage, Reconstruct, and Dreams of Lace

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-D Soooo busy around here lately! LOL

9/4/2015

Lots of thinkin this week about salvage. “The wreck is a fact…The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work.”~Kay Ryan Make art about salvage, or salvaging something.

 

9/5/2015

“Sink, suffer, self-destruct. Rise stronger, reconstruct”~Lamb of God Make art about reconstruction, about reconstructing from what’s left.

 

9/6/2015

Someone I love is battling cancer. Make art about illnesss or disease.

 

9/7/2015

Dreamt someone I love brought me yards of unbleached cotton and lace. Make art with flowing white fabric, or lace, or lacing as the central metaphor.

 

 

Monday Must Read! Laurie Kolp: Upon the Blue Couch

Monday Must Read!

This week meet Laurie Kolp. Laurie is an avid runner, lover of nature, mother of three, and wife to former Marine who enjoys living life one day at a time in Southeast Texas. She is the author of Upon the Blue Couch (Winter Goose Publishing, 2014) and Hello It’s Your Mother (Finishing Line Press, October 2015). Laurie’s poems have appeared in more than four dozen print and online journals worldwide including the 2015 Poet’s Market, Scissors & Spackle, North Dakota Quarterly, Blue Fifth Review, and Pirene’s Fountain.

You can find out more about Laurie on her website, http://lauriekolp.com

Praise for Laurie’s work!

Laurie Kolp’s new collection Hello, It’s Your Mother is a poetry that threads the hard truth of loss and grief to daily living – piano lessons, coffee tables, blueberry scones, and phones.  It’s the ordinary made universal in the relentless will to sort the fragments of life, to give us something to hold, and Kolp does this well. Her writing skill never falters, never loses voice, allowing the real moments of mother / daughter relationships to find a strong connection in all readers. This is a remarkable and penetrating work.~Sam Rasnake, author of Cinéma Vérité (Editor of Blue Fifth Review)

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Because Kolp writes of the everyday, she writes of the familiar. These poems and the life they paint are recognizable. We see ourselves in the poems; we share the emotions they evoke; and the life and lives they represent become our lives. ~Glynn Young of Tweetspeak Poetry, Author of Poetry at Work

Laurie’s Work and More Online:

Upon the Blue Couch- Amazon, Barnes & Noble

Origami Poems Project (free micro-chap)- What You Left

Turtle Island Quarterly- Muffled (bottom of Chapter 1)

Gnarled Oak- haiku

Otter Magazine- Crushed Rose

Black Heart Magazine- 3 poems

Here is a link to an interview by Robert Lee Brewer on Poetic Asides.

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

Sometimes the Prompt is the Key :-)

9/1/2015

Dreamt someone I love gave me a ring full of keys and I gleefully skipped around unlocking and throwing open doors. :-)

Make art about keys, about finding the key.