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New Publication to Start 2017 :-) MockingHeart Review

Thrilled and honored to start 2017 with my work being featured in MockingHeart Review, and to be in such good company there

Thanks and Love to the fabulous Clare L. Martin for her beautiful spirit and hard work and for including me in her great journal

Check out MockingHeart Review, Volume 1 Issue 2 here!

Daily Prompt Love <3 The Study of Us

17 December 2016

One of my undergrad degrees is in Anthropology, and the gift of that, the ability to view ‘us’ through the detailed and complex lens I learned from my amazing professors in that field still, every day, shapes the way I move through the world.

I first discovered Anthropology in the library as a child, those trips we made to get books every weekend with my mama, and one of the things I first loved about the anthropology books I found was that, in those books, I found women–not as subjects (although that fascinated me too)–but as the authors, as the experts: Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Jane Goodall. They were who I imagined myself to be as I “excavated’ arrrowheads and shark teeth from the plowed up tobacco field beside the trailer park where I lived as a child.

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―Jane Goodall,  British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace

“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”~Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist and author

“I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself, and one for the world.”~ Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist and folklorist

Make art inspired by anthropology, by an anthropological discovery.

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Wildness

WILDNESS: Call for Submissions

Submissions accepted year-round.

 

WILDNESS is an online literary journal that seeks to promote contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that evokes the unknown. Founded in 2015, each thoughtfully compiled issue strives to unearth the works of both established and up-and-coming writers. For submission guidelines visit readwildness.com/submit or email submissions@readwildness.com

 

Website: http://readwildness.com/

 

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 How do you know that?

in·tu·i·tion

ˌint(y)o͞oˈiSH(ə)n/

noun

1 the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.

“we shall allow our intuition to guide us”

2 a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning.

“your insights and intuitions as a native speaker are positively sought”

Make art about intuition, about using intuition, about what is revealed or understood intuitively. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Rescue

15 December 2016

Dreamt I was rescuing babies from some catastrophe.

Make art about rescue, about rescuing, about being rescued. 

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Mine Rescue by Fletcher Martin

 

Some MidWeek Call for Submissions Love <3 Loud Zoo: Standing Up to Injustice

Loud Zoo is Looking for Inspiration!

Deadline: December 31, 2016

 

We need it now more than ever. Please send art in any medium (video, audio, and multimedia welcome!), fiction of any genre, poetry, nonfiction, and beyond. Send pieces with people standing up for one another, standing up to injustices. We want people banding together in the face of mania and terror, holding strong and rising up against oppressors and regressions. From the hyper-real to the experimental and surreal, show us humanity. Help inspire people to take their own stands in their own communities and lives.

Website: http://www.bedlampublishing.com/loudz...

Detailed guidelines:  www.bedlampublishing.com/submissions.html.

Daily Prompt Love <3 Stranded, and the Fog

13 December 2016

That Lil Red Car is headed into the shop this morning. I’m now marooned in my lil house

Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3

4 December 2016

Make art about nothing going as you planned.

5 December 2016

Make art about driving in the dark.

6 December 2016

Make art about standing up for yourself.

7 December 2016

Make art about corruption, about calling out corruption.

8 December 2016

Make art about needing silence, about the recharge, rebirth, renewal of strength to be found a a period of silence.

9 December 2016

Make art about needing to scream, about the release, the energy, the power, to be found in a good primal scream.

10 December 2016

Make art about hospitals, about being in the hospital.

11 December 2016

Make art about drawing strength from the energy and creativity and spontaneity of young people.

12 December 2016

Make art about coming to terms with the inevitability of death.

 

 

 

Monday Must Read! Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin

This week’s recommendation is a collection, a vital gathering of voices that should be in every poet’s library, in every classroom where we talk poetry: Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin,compiled by Phil Cushway and edited by Michael Warr.

“This stunning work illuminates today’s black experience through the voices of our most transformative and powerful African American poets.

Included in this extraordinary volume are the poems of 43 of America’s most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize–winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other luminaries such as Elizabeth Alexander, Ishmael Reed, and Sonia Sanchez. Included are poems such as “No Wound of Exit” by Patricia Smith, “We Are Not Responsible” by Harryette Mullen, and “Poem for My Father” by Quincy Troupe. Each is accompanied by a photograph of the poet along with a first-person biography. The anthology also contains personal essays on race such as “The Talk” by Jeannine Amber and works by Harry Belafonte, Amiri Baraka, and The Reverend Dr. William Barber II, architect of the Moral Mondays movement, as well as images and iconic political posters of the Black Lives Matter movement, Malcolm X, and the Black Panther Party. Taken together, Of Poetry and Protest gives voice to the current conversation about race in America while also providing historical and cultural context. It serves as an excellent introduction to African American poetry and is a must-have for every reader committed to social justice and racial harmony.”

Buy Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin Here

More on this collection online

Of Poetry and Protest in Poets & Writers

Michael Warr on The Morning Mixtape discussing Of Poetry and Protest

Of Poetry and Protest Readings

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Defiance and Remaking

2 December 2016

De·fi·ance ( dəˈfīəns/)  noun

open resistance; bold disobedience.

“the demonstration was held in defiance of official warnings”

Make art about acts of defiance, small or large.

3 December 2016

Making new stocking for our family with remnants of late 40s-early 50s vintage fabric.

Make art about remaking something old into something new.