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June 7, 2017
Special Mid-Week Call for Submissions Love <3 Streetlight Magazine Contest Seeking Essays
“We are seeking strong and stirring personal
stories–maximum 800 words. Winning entries
will be published in the summer issue of Streetlight
magazine on July 14, 2017 and may be produced
as a podcast on Streetlight Voices. All entries
will be considered for general publication.”
Deadline for entries is July 1st, 2017 (midnight EST).
Entry fee: $10
Enter at: streetlightmag.com/essaymemoir-contest/
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Daily Prompt Love <3 Yes, Please
7 June 2017
Feeling my Southern mama at my shoulder.
Make art about manners, having them, learning them, lacking them, using them in difficult situations.
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June 6, 2017
Daily Prompt Love <3 When I Ask Why
6 June 2017
Make art inspired by this.
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June 5, 2017
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up<3 Locks and Space
4 June 2017
Make art about locks, locking things in, locking things out, unlocking locks.
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5 June 2017
Something I’m still learning, still working on.
Make art about making space for the unknown, the yet to come.
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Monday Must Read! Lauren K. Alleyne: Difficult Fruit
What a beautiful read this week!
[image error]Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of Difficult Fruit (Peepal Tree Press, 2014). She holds an MFA in Poetry and a graduate certificate in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Cornell University, and an MA in English and Creative Writing from Iowa State University. Alleyne’s fiction, non-fiction, interviews, and poetry have been widely published in journals and anthologies such as Women’s Studies Quarterly, Guernica, The Caribbean Writer, Black Arts Quarterly, The Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gathering Ground, and Growing Up Girl, among others. Her work has earned several honors and awards, most recently the Picador Guest Professorship in Literature at the University of Leipzig, Germany, a 2014 Iowa Arts Council Fellowship, and first place in the 2016 Split This Rock Poetry Contest. Alleyne is a Cave Canem graduate, and is originally from Trinidad and Tobago. She currently works at James Madison University as Assistant Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and an Associate Professor of English.
Buy Lauren’s Beautiful Book Here!
Praise for Difficult Fruit
Lauren Alleyne’s voice is a revelatory and formidable fusion of irrepressible music and uncompromising craft. Like snippets of cinema, these poems arrest the senses and challenge what’s known. Every door this exceptional work opens opens onto a larger light.—Patricia Smith
To go back “is a verb conjugated in dreams,” Lauren Alleyne writes in her debut volume Difficult Fruit, inscribing the governing mystery of this work, the secret knowledge of the dead. In anaphoric bursts of incantatory disclosure, in ghazals of love and survival, eros and the infinite, she does, indeed, go back, past all griefs and illuminations, “to the song beneath the song.” There is uncommon spiritual knowledge here as well as political discernment. There is much to learn while accompanying Alleyne on her “raft of language,” through a troubled world and an imagined heaven, to the place “from which comes all singing.” I have gone with her and would do so again and again.—Carolyn Forché
Difficult Fruit is a book I wish there were no need for. But need there is; and Alleyne delivers poems of loss and grief and, thankfully, hope. “Meaning is the closest we get to salvation,/which is to say the word changes nothing/–it does not unmake the rivers,” she writes. But addressing the ages in ghazal and crown and free verse forms, she reminds us, in the “flaming sentence” that in one’s life, “it is in the raft of language we begin our escape.”—Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
More From Lauren Online
http://www.laurenkalleyne.com/work.html
http://www.gwarlingo.com/2014/the-sunday-poem-lauren-k-alleynes-difficult-fruit/
https://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/689-lauren-k-alleyne-poetry
http://www.2river.org/2RView/10_4/poems/alleyne.html
http://www.thegriefdiaries.org/poetry-by-lauren-k-alleyne/
http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/crb-archive/24-november-2010/two-poems/
http://www.thethepoetry.com/2013/02/poem-of-the-week-lauren-k-alleyne/
http://www.thefeministwire.com/2015/09/poetry-madame-x-by-lauren-k-alleyne/
Hear Lauren Read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8VfxSkn3dc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax3nmQXD0YQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E5PvO_Lkcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70DVGoDzRlI
Wonderful work!
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
June 3, 2017
Daily Prompt Love s Pictures
3 June 2017
I collect photographs from thrift stores, other people’s pictures sold, I guess, in estate sales and such. I carry some of them with me when I travel, sometimes keep some of them on my night stand, wait for them to tell me their stories, or just so I can say that someone remembers them.
I scanned in some of my favorites.
Make art inspired by one of these photos.
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June 2, 2017
Friday Call for Submissions Love x 2: Malevolent Soap, Intersecting ‘High’ and ‘Low’ Culture
Malevolent Soap
Deadline: July 1, 2017
Malevolent Soap is an independent journal of poetry and fiction. We’re based in Melbourne, Australia, but our issues feature emerging and established voices from around the planet. We publish annually, in September. Anything goes, but we’re partial to work that explores intersections of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture. Whether it invokes Nicolas Cage as muse or bemoans Rick Deckard’s overconsumption of MSG in verse, we’re interested.
Our debut issue is slated for release on September 1. Submissions are open until July 1. We pay $20 AUD per published piece.
To submit, visit the website malevolentsoap.com
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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Collateral: Work Concerned with Impact of Military Service
COLLATERAL
Poetry, Prose and Art on the Impact of Military Service
Submissions accepted year-round.
Collateral is an online literary journal affiliated with the University of Washington Tacoma. We publish poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual arts concerned with the impact of military service beyond the combat zone. The voices of those more indirectly impacted by war sometimes go unheard, and our journal seeks to capture the “collateral” impact of military service in all its forms. We publish work by veterans, reserve/active duty soldiers, and civilians every May and November; we accept submissions year-round through our website. Send up to 5 poems, 3,000 words of prose, or 7 images.
Website: www.collateraljournal.com
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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Lost, Sold, and Declined
31 May 2017
For years I suffered with mazeophobia, the fear of getting lost. One family member, I remember before one trip, scoffed, asking if I was afraid of flying. No, I said, I’m afraid of airports. What I actually was fearful of was getting lost in the airport. Not long after that, I ended up stranded in the Minneapolis airport for seventeen hours, walking, walking, every inch of that airport. By the time I finally boarded my plane, I wasn’t afraid of airports anymore. But…the fear of getting lost in general remained.
I bought and studied an atlas. I bought a Garmin GPS. I learned how to use the GPA on my phone. I created a system of tracking my entire journey. I not only got in my car and traveled with others, I got in that little red car and traveled by myself, thousands of miles every year, two lane backroads, me and Garmin and my maps and my notes and my music.
I still have a phobia of becoming lost, but I am more afraid of being trapped, limited, by my fear.
Make art about what it means to be lost.
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1 June 2017
Make art about what’s being bought and paid for.
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2 June 2017
Make art about the decline of an empire.
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May 30, 2017
Daily Prompt Love <3 Like A Circle In a Spiral
30 May 2017
Been hearing (and singing) this song since I woke up.
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind
Make art about circles, inside circles, circling, unending spirals, cycles, the circles we inhabit, the circles we create.
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