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January 10, 2017
Daily Prompt Love <3 What That Darkness Is
1/10/2017
“…darkness is but a ghost of an idea, the least
remembered, most estranged prayer, and your fear
but a lingering, limbic fear torn from shreds of forgotten years.”
–Alice B. Fogel
Make art about forgiving the darkness.
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January 9, 2017
Daily Prompt Love <3 Unexpected Letters
1/9/2017
My daddy was a sweet, gentle, and wildly imperfect man. But one thing that we all knew, without question, was how much he loved our mama. And lest we forget, periodically, he would sit down and write a letter to each of us kids, telling us how much, and all the reasons why. We all lived in the same town, for so many years, but these letters would arrive unexpectedly in the mail, missives of fierce and eternal Love.
Make art about an unexpected letter, or about fierce Love.
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Monday Must Read! Clare Martin, Eating the Heart First, and Seek the Holy Dark
[image error]Clare L. Martin is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and lifelong Louisiana resident. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies both online and in print, including Avatar Review, Blue Fifth Review, Literary Mama, Louisiana Literature, and Poets and Artists, among others. Her poems have been included in the anthologies The Red Room: Writings from Press 1, Best of Farmhouse Magazine Vol. 1, and Beyond Katrina. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2012), Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web (2011), Best New Poets (2009), and Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net (2008 and 2011).
Visit Clare’s website here: https://clarelmartin.com/
Buy Clare’s beautiful books!
Eating the Heart First
http://www.press53.com/BioClareLMartin.html
Preorder Clare’s new book Seek the Holy Dark!
http://www.yellowflagpress.com/_p/prd15/4592458541/product/clare-l.-martin—seek-the-holy-dark
Seek the Holy Dark available for pre-order. Trade paperback, 66 pages, only $10. Pre-orders will ship in early February.
Praise for Eating the Heart First
“Clare L. Martin pulls off an impressive balancing act in her debut book of poems Eating the Heart First. In this collection, divided into three sections, she manages trust of her intuitive powers while she tats her findings onto poems built with technical expertise. She is a believer of dreams, and the whole of the work can be read as an oneiric treatise guided by the powers she believes in: the power of memory, the power of water, the power of moons, the powers of longing, and the power of love. In one of the late poems a crow in a dream asks, ‘Let me be a whorl of darkness— / Let me be a fist in the sun.’ All of the poems in this collection have the impact of that crow’s call and of the trope it creates. Gradually the poems reveal richly textured revelations of a heart tied to human experience in that ‘dream we cannot know completely.’ And, while we may not ever know the dream completely, Ms. Martin hands us a guidebook to dreams and to the art that uses dream and dreaming as the scaffolding from which to make something beautiful, and useful, and mysterious all at the same time.”
— Darrell Bourque, former Poet Laureate of Louisiana and author of In Ordinary Light, New and Selected Poems
“Clare L. Martin is a fine young poet whose work is dark and lovely and full of a deep organic pulse. Like the landscape of her beloved Louisiana, her work is alive with mystery. You could swim in this hot water, but there are things down inside its darkness that might pull you away forever. It is an exquisite drowning.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Queen of America
Praise for Seek the Holy Dark
From the holy dark of horror storms and freedom in the hand, to starving wolves and old women who live in woods, Clare Martin’s poetic imagery seeks in myth to locate depth of soul. She incants salvation “bone by bone” up from the shadows. Her writing has a beautiful fury, a hard questing and secret exultation that keep the reader poised and intoxicated. “Do you seek the heart too” the opening poem asks, and of course, we answer Yes and read breathlessly on. These poems “drop through this world/into dark awakening.” The strong-hearted will understand.
~Rachel Dacus, author of Gods of Water and Air
Seek the Holy Dark is a book of revelations in poems. Clare L. Martin sees the richness and the poverty that are bedmates, proffers them as gifts, lays them at our feet. Her poems suggest we join in the quest to be both humbled and exalted. Martin, who never looks away, fully understands the duality of nature, its light and darkness, exploring both in this lush and lyrical new collection.
~Susan Tepper, author of dear Petrov and The Merrill Diaries
Visit Clare’s beautiful litmag: MockingHeart Review!
https://mockingheartreview.com/
Read More from Clare Online
http://wewantedtobewriters.com/2014/01/excerpt-from-clare-martins-poetry-collection/
https://referentialmagazine.com/contributors/m-o/clare-l-martin/
http://www.eclectica.org/v12n1/martin.html
http://www.unlikelystories.org/12/martin1212.shtml
http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue15/poetry_martincl.
Hear Clare Read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yx32YG96f8
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
January 8, 2017
HeartWood Call for Submissions: Still Open for our April Issue
We’re still reading, but closing in on final selections for our April issue, so send us your best–poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction.
Website: http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/
Guidelines: http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/submit/
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Daily Prompt Love <3 Makers
January 8, 2017
Make art inspired by the hands of the ancestors.
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“A 6,200-year-old indigo-blue fabric from Huaca, Peru has been found by a researcher, making it one of the oldest-known cotton textiles in the world and the oldest known textile decorated with indigo blue.”
Researchers identify oldest textile dyed indigo, reflecting scientific knowledge from 6,200 years ago
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160914150426.htm
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January 7, 2017
Daily Prompt Love <3 Study in Contrasts
1/7/2017
White snow, black treeline. Make art that’s a study in contrasts.
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January 6, 2017
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Out of Many
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
OUT OF MANY MAGAZINE
founded by writers at Vanderbilt University, is seeking fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. We are especially eager to read pieces with multi–cultural elements. Submission is free, and response times are low. We publish regularly online and quarterly in print.
For details, visit outofmanymag.com.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-)Post-Broken Arm Prompts :-)
1/3/2017
Make art about kitchen utensils, about inheriting utensils, about replacing utensils.
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1/4/2017
Make art about bones breaking, literal or as a metaphor.
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1/5/2017
Make art inspired by an x-ray.
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1/6/2017
Make art about restricted motion, limited movement.
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January 2, 2017
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) 16 New Prompts! Let’s write into the New Year <3
12/18/2016
Re-envision a fable in a contemporary way, The Emperor Has No Clothes, for example.
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12/19/2016
Remember that old game Telephone? Make are where a truth is twisted until it’s unrecognizable.
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12/20/2016
Make art about travel planning.
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12/21/2016
Make art about needles and pins.
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12/22/2016
Make art digging a hole.
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12/23/2016
Make art about bread baking.
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12/24/2016
Make art about finishing something last minute.
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12/25/2016
Make art what you see in a baby’s eyes.
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Monday Must Read! Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice
Planning to use this in my Intro to Poetry class this spring.
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[image error]Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice
Edited by Francisco X. Alarcón; Odilia Galván Rodríguez
University of Arizona Press 2016
On April 20, 2010, nine Latino students chained themselves to the main doors of the Arizona State Capitol in an act of civil disobedience to protest Arizona’s SB 1070. Moved by the students’ actions, that same day Francisco X. Alarcón responded by writing a poem in Spanish and English titled “Para Los Nueve del Capitolio/ For the Capitol Nine,” which he dedicated to the students. The students replied to the poem with a collective online message. To share with the world what was taking place, Alarcón then created a Facebook page called “Poets Responding to SB 1070” and posted the poem, launching a powerful and dynamic forum for social justice.
Since then, more than three thousand original contributions by poets and artists from around the globe have been posted to the page. Poetry of Resistance offers a selection of these works, addressing a wide variety of themes, including racial profiling, xenophobia, cultural misunderstanding, violence against refugees, shared identity, and much more. Contributors include distinguished poets such as Francisco Aragón, Devreaux Baker, Sarah Browning, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Susan Deer Cloud, Sharon Dubiago, Martín Espada, Genny Lim, Pam Uschuk, and Alma Luz Villanueva.
Bringing together more than eighty writers, the anthology powerfully articulates the need for change and the primacy of basic human rights. Each poem shows the heartfelt dedication these writers and artists have to justice in a world that has become larger than borders. Poetry of Resistance is a poetic call for tolerance, reflection, reconciliation, and healing.
Praise for Poetry of Resistance
Poetry of Resistance is a timely response (via verse) to the current political climate of Arizona, though what the book ultimately argues is that these injustices have always been taking place—SB 1070 is simply its most recent manifestation. —Rigoberto González, author of Our Lady of
Alarcón and co-editor the eco-poet and activist Odilia Galván Rodríguez selected the strongest work from the hundreds of entries to shape this anthology whose communal message—a plea for social change—will remain timeless and resonant.–NBC News
Buy Poetry of Resistance here!
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2590.htm
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