Mary Carroll-Hackett's Blog, page 31

Daily Prompt Love <3 The Dark

8 March 2019 

“Sometimes the dark moves through you. Sometimes the dark asks questions; sometimes it shoots.”–Nina Puro

Make art about what the dark does. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Guarded

7 March 2019 

She guarded herself like a secret.”-Jodi Anderson

Make art about being guarded, about a guarded person, or about letting your guard down. 

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Sometimes The Day Is The Poem <3

Just like fire.

Daily Prompt Love <3 That Step

6 March 2019 

Make art about the next step. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 The Game

5 March 2019 

Make art about who won the game, or whether playing the game was worth it. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Justice

4 March 2019 

Make art about justice, or the lack thereof. 

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Monday Must Read! Hunger for Salt by Elaine Fletcher Chapman

Elaine Fletcher Chapman lives on the West side of the Chesapeake Bay. She holds an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College where she has worked on the staff since 1999. She founded The Writer’s Studio where she teaches poetry and nonfiction, provides editing services and organizes poetry readings and writing retreats. Her poems have been published in The Tishman Review, The EcoTheo Review, The Cortland Review, Connotation, The Sun, Calyx, Poet Lore, 5AM, Salamander, and others. She was guest blogger on The Best American Poetry Blog. Green River Press published her letterpress chapbook, Double Solitude. She writes non-fiction as well as poetry.

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For further inquiry: visit Elaine’s website here. 

Purchase Hunger for Salt Here

Visit  St. Julian Press

Praise for Hunger For Salt

“The poems of Elaine Fletcher Chapman are meditations waiting for our eyes to open. A few of these poems remind me of the beautiful seashells one finds on the beach after a storm. Chapman writes from the heart reminding us to discover the strength to love. There is loss as well as celebration in Hunger for Salt. Here are poems Thomas Merton would tuck somewhere inside his robes. Here is the Chapman rosary for our days to come.”~ E. Ethelbert Miller Editor, Poet Lore Magazine

“In Elaine Fletcher Chapman’s Hunger for Salt, the hunger is palpable: for the natural world, the spiritual world, and the realm of the carnal. These powerful, well-crafted poems invite the reader into the place where these worlds meet. There is an intimacy here missing from much contemporary poetry, and intimacy is what drew me in until my hunger, like salt, dissolved.”~ Wyn Cooper

“Hunger for Salt is a tender evocation of the natural world. Chapman displays a poet’s sensibility, a quiet attentiveness to personal wonder, intimacy and grief. The stillness of these poems exposes the refractive quality of memory and desire; it is a poignant and elegant debut.”~ J. Mae Barizo

Daily Prompt Love <3 Daughters

3 March 2019 

Today is my daughter’s 32nd birthday. She is beautiful and brave and smart and loving, and I am grateful and humbled to know her. She has been and remains one of my most important teachers. 

Make art about daughters.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 The Machine

2 March 2019 

Make art about the machine, about the spirit in the machine, about the magical machines we inhabit. 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Oyster River

Oyster River Pages Call for Submissions – Special & Regular Issue

Deadline: May 31, 2019

Oyster River Pages is a literary and artistic collective seeking submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual arts that stretch creative and social boundaries.

“We believe in the power of art to connect people to their own and others’ humanity. Because of this, we seek to feature artists whose voices have been historically decentered and marginalized. In addition to regular submissions, we are temporarily seeking submissions for our themed issue, Delta, which is reflective of change, transformation, expansion, unification, and of the liminal spaces between land and water.

Please visit Oyster River  for more submission details.

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