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March 20, 2017
Monday Must Read! Sarah Einstein- Mot: A Memoir
[image error]Sarah Einstein is the author of Mot: A Memoir (University of Georgia Press 2015), Remnants of Passion (Shebooks 2014), and numerous essays and short stories. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Best of the Net, and the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
At forty, Sarah Einstein is forced to face her own shortcomings. In the wake of an attempted sexual assault, she must come to terms with the facts that she is not tough enough for her job managing a local drop-in center for adults with mental illness and that her new marriage is already faltering. Just as she reaches her breaking point, she meets Mot, a homeless veteran who lives a life dictated by frightening delusion. She is drawn to the brilliant ways he has found to lead his own difficult life; traveling to Romania to get his teeth fixed because the United States doesn’t offer dental care to the indigent, teaching himself to use computers in public libraries, and even taking university classes while living out of doors.
Mot: A Memoir is the story of their unlikely friendship and explores what we can, and cannot, do for a person we love. In unsparing prose and with a sharp eye for detail, Einstein brings the reader into the world of Mot’s delusions and illuminates a life that would otherwise be hidden from us.
Sarah’s Website: http://www.saraheinstein.com/
Buy Sarah’s Books!
Read More from Sarah Online
Interviews
http://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2015/07/interview-sarah-einstein-author-of-mot-a-memoir/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs-z8UTK1BI
Hear Sarah Read at WVWC MFA Summer Residency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21OkuLmc5c0
Happy Reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
March 19, 2017
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Last Words and Labyrinths
18 March 2017
Ten people I love have walked on to the next life since 2007.
Make art about the last time you saw someone, the last conversation, the last words you said.
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19 March 2017
Dreamt a maze made of light last night.
Make art about a labyrinth, real or metaphorical.
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March 17, 2017
Friday Call for Submissions Love: Mary: A Journal of New Writing–Only 3 Days Left to Submit!
FICTION and NONFICTION submissions should be no more than 15 pages in standard 12-point font, double-spaced format (unless otherwise structured for craft purposes).
POETRY submissions should contain no more than 5 poems or 10 pages per submission. All work must be previously unpublished.
All submissions will be considered for our Editors’ Prize.
Deadline to submit is March 20th.
You may submit here: http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/node/15842
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Daily Prompt Love for St. Paddy’s Day <3
17 March 2017
Make art about an immigrant story, about the realities, about how America was built on the very backs of the immigrants they revile.
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March 16, 2017
Daily Prompt Love <3
15 March 2017
Make art about restlessness.
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16 March 2017
Make art about truth and lies.
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March 15, 2017
March 14, 2017
Daily Prompt Love <3 Yes and No
14 March 2017
“One person saying Yes Yes and another person saying No No, that’s tension.”-Betsy Cox
Make a list of all the things you’d like to say No to, then make a list of everything you’d like to say Yes to. Make art inspired from these lists.
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March 13, 2017
Daily Prompt Love <3 Judge Not
13 March 2017
I unfriended someone this morning on social media, a woman who leads with her “I’m a Christian” banner, but who daily and consistently posts things that are disparaging to others, about people and groups of people with whom I know personally she has little actual experience. She’s older, and has limited life experience, so I had alternately either ignored her ignorance or had tried, gently, to share my own experiences with the people she judged. Her fear, it seems, runs too deep. But this morning, as she posted multiple things mocking and denigrating millennials, I was just done.
Am I judging her? Maybe. I’ll think on that. Pray on it too. But for now, her persistent fear and judgment of people about whom she is ignorant are not something I want in my life every day.
Make art about judging, about judging through ignorance, or–be brave!–educate yourself on someone you have previously judged.
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Monday Must Read: Joel Peckham, God’s Bicycle
[image error]Joel Peckham is a scholar, essayist and poet who has published a book of essays, two books of poetry, and two chapbooks His work has appeared in many literary and academic journals including The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, The Black Warrior Review, Riverteeth, The North American Review and American Literature Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Regional Literature and Creative Writing at Marshall University.
“A Chevy up on blocks is only an eyesore
to the faithless.”-from “Husks”
In GOD’S BICYCLE, Joel Peckham’s fifth collection of poetry, he offers a spiritual road mix for 21st-century America. In poems that travel from the heartland through Appalachia to New England, he sings a song crafted from his own strange brew of off-kilter, irreverent psalms, prayers, hymns, aubades, and elegies in praise and homage to a fragmented but beautiful landscape and people. Drawing as much from rockabilly as Whitman, these poems are always intense and often exuberant, even in their struggle for the kind of hope that can “rise green and leafy from a bitter soil.”
Buy Joel’s Beautiful Books
Joel on Youtube
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
March 12, 2017
Daily Prompt Love <3 Getting Lost, and Finding Home
11 March 2017
Spent the day lost in a book.
Make art about being lost in a good way.
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12 March 2017
Dreamt a future conversation with my grandson, where we talked about what it meant to create home wherever you are, that our true home is what we carry inside us, from our experiences, from the ancestors. He nodded solemnly, as if he already knew this.
Make art about where home is, or how we create home.
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