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September 25, 2016
Daily Prompt Love <3 Old Music and New
9/24/2016
Found some healing and comfort last night from listening to old school outlaw country music that my mama loved.
Make art inspired by a song remembered from your childhood.
25 September 2016
Make art about another beginning.
September 23, 2016
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3
9/20/2016
It’s my oldest son’s birthday today. I never could have know, twenty-eight years ago, that I wasn’t just having a baby: I was meeting one of my best ever friends.
Make art about adult children. Or about best friends.
With my oldest son J, early 1989
9/21/2016
Make art about lighting a candle for someone you Love.
9/22/2016
Been thinking all day about living in other times. I would have made a terrible Victorian woman
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Foliate Oak :-) Gutsy & Unforgettable?
Foliate Oak Literary Magazine
Seeking Gutsy Unforgettable Submissions
Deadline: April 5, 2017
Foliate Oak wants your lyrical essays, your hybrids, your most brave, most zany writing. Please submit photography and artwork also. We want to hear from people whose work we have not published. We want newness.
Website: http://www.foliateoak.com/
Full Guidelines & Submit Here: https://foliateoakliterarymagazine.su...
September 19, 2016
Big Ol’ Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Almost a Month’s Worth of Prompts! Gettin back on track around here :-)
8/24/2016
Spent a lot of time the last two days in traffic jams.
Make art about something unexpectedly positive arising from being stuck in a traffic jam.
8/25/2016
Make art about ceremony.
8/26/2016
Make art about grandmothers.
8/27/2016
Make art about spirituality or faith as a spectator sport.
8/28/2016
Make art about realizing you already had what you though your were looking for.
8/29/2016
Make art about finding family, or about the family you choose, rather than the one you were born to.
8/30/2016
Mercury goes into a three week retrograde, starting today. Careful with communication and travel plans.
Make art about something spinning backwards, or about a snafu in communication or travel.
8/31/2016
Make art about taking a shortcut.
9/1/2016
Make art about coming back home.
9/2/2016
Make art about a specific request from a child.
9/3/2016
Make art about dragons.
9/4/2016
Interestingly, the word dragon derives from two separate Greek words. One word means “a huge serpent or snake” and the other means “I see clearly”.
Make art about seeing the panoramic view, the big picture.
9/5/2016
Make art about getting your wings.
9/6/2016
Recently witnessed a young man in line at the grocery store pay for the purchases of the stranger behind him, just as an act of kindness.
Make art about an act of kindness toward a stranger.
9/7/2016
In that same grocery store line, the woman behind me, even after having witnessed the young man’s spontaneous act of kindness, ranted on about how awful young ones are.
Make art about being blind to what’s right before you.
9/8/2016
Soundtrack for the day: R.E.M.
Make art about losing your religion.
9/9/2016
Whoever the next man in my life turns out to be, he’s gonna need to love onions
Must Read Monday! Karenne Wood: Weaving the Boundary
This week, meet Karenne Wood, a poet and linguistic anthropologist who grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC. She earned an MFA at George Mason University and a PhD in anthropology at the University of Virginia, where she was a Ford Fellow. Wood is the author of the poetry collection Markings on Earth (2001), which won a Diane Decorah Award for Poetry from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas. Her work was included in the anthologies Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers in Community (2002) and The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal (2010). In her poems, she often explores themes of identity, cultural practice, and language within portraits of historical and contemporary Virginia Indians.
An enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation, Wood serves on the Monacan Tribal Council and directs the Virginia Indian Programs at the Virginia Center for the Humanities. She has served as the repatriation director for the Association on American Indian Affairs and as a researcher for the National Museum of the American Indian. Wood curated Beyond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Past and Present, exhibited at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. She has served as chair of the Virginia Council on Indians and as a member of the National Congress of American Indians’ Repatriation Commission.
Get Karenne’s Beautiful Books!
Weaving the Boundary
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2592.htm
Markings on Earth
Read More from Karenne Online
http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2015-spring/selections/karenne-wood-763879/
http://www.mudcityjournal.com/karennewood/
http://virginiahumanities.org/2013/11/a-conversation-with-karenne-wood/
https://news.virginia.edu/content/anthropologist-karenne-wood-researches-language-her-monacan-tribe
http://uvamagazine.org/articles/required_reading_karenne_wood
Great Conversation with Karenne
Acts of optimism: Karenne Wood on language, silence, and healing
http://www.jmu.edu/stories/fightandfiddle/2016/interview-karenne-wood.shtml
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
September 16, 2016
Back at it! Friday Call for Submissions Love! Nimrod: Looking for Home
Nimrod International Journal
Leaving Home, Finding Home
Deadline: November 5, 2016
Submissions are now open for Nimrod International Journal’s Spring 2017 issue, Leaving Home, Finding Home.
“For this issue, we invite poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction that explore ideas of home. We are especially interested in receiving work by immigrants, “Third Culture Kids,” and expatriates. Other ideas include work about age and home, the connections between family and home, and home as a state of mind. For poetry, submit up to 8 pages; for fiction and creative nonfiction, 7,500 words maximum.”
Manuscripts may be mailed or submitted online: nimrodjournal.submittable.com/submit. Email nimrod@tulsa.edu or visit website for guidelines: www.utulsa.edu/nimrod.
August 23, 2016
Before I Hit the Road Call for Submissions Love <3 Light Journal
Light Journal – Be Part of the Inaugural Issue!
Deadline: September 30, 2016
Light will be a journey of emotion through photography and poetry. It will feature the work of established and emerging photographers and poets. The theme for the inaugural issue is Human. It’s a bit of a challenge. We identify humanity with countless topics. There are many ways to make the “human-ness” of our situations personal, beautiful, and memorable. But how do we take what’s so familiar and make it fresh and surprising? We’re looking for photography and poetry that investigate the theme. Give us your boldest, slyest, most inquisitive visions of the human.
Website: www.light-journal.com
Sometimes the List is the Prompt, or the Prompt is the List :-)
23 August 2016
I’m getting ready for a week’s worth of travel, so it’s all about making lists this morning.
Make a list (to do, shopping, wishes), then use the list as inspiration. Try to include most of the things you put on the list into what you write.
August 22, 2016
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Heat, and Travel, and the Child You Were
18 August 2016
Gettin that August blast of summer heat!
“I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer.”~Violette Leduc
Make art about relentless heat.
19 August 2016
So I stood in my yard today and watched a truck hauling a trailer lose control just long enough to smash my mailbox to smithereens.19 August 2016
Make art about witnessing destruction.
20 August 2016
Visiting with family and looking through some newly discovered old family photographs, including some I’d never seen of that wild lil girl I was[image error]
Make art about yourself as a child.
21 August 2016
My sons helped me shuck, cut, and can six dozen ears of corn today. It’s a messy job, but now the house smells like caramel corn, and we have yummy summer in a jar for those cold winter months.
Make art about a task that’s hard, but worth it.
22 August 2016
I’m headed out later this week for a spiritual retreat and a couple of road trip visits with family. Excited, but fretting over getting all my stuff ready.
Make art about preparing to travel.
Monday Must Read! Karen Craigo: No More Milk
This week meet the fabulous Karen Craigo. Karen is the author of the poetry collection No More Milk (Sundress Publications, 2016), as well as the forthcoming collection Passing Through Humansville (ELJ Publications, 2017). Her poetry and essays appear in numerous journals, and she is the author of two chapbooks,Someone Could Build Something Here (Winged City, 2013) and Stone for an Eye (Kent State/Wick, 2004).
Karen teaches writing in Springfield, Missouri.
Visit Karen’s Website
http://betterviewofthemoon.blogspot.com/
Get Karen’s Books!
No More Milk
Stone for an Eye
Praise for No More Milk
Despite the seeming refusal implied by No More Milk, there’s vast generosity in these poems, a sense of holiness in even the smallest of gestures. Holy, but not numinous: these are embodied prayers, “in praise of what’s left/ and all the hands it has known,” the kind that makes you “bow beneath the burden of words.” There is a profound personal morality at stake for this poet who loves the people and things of this earth in all their itchy-butt blessedness, “the slugs/ as much as the lilacs,” who manages to sing like “the bird/ that has made us rise…/…yesterday’s anger/ reduced to syllables in the air.” Alleluia.
—Heidi Czerwiec, author of Self-Portrait as Bettie Page and Sweet/Crude: A Bakken Boom Cycle
Read More from Karen Online
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/41424
http://atticusreview.org/featured-poet-karen-craigo/
http://www.radarpoetry.com/issue-2-contributors/
https://asitoughttobe.com/2013/11/30/saturday-poetry-series-presents-karen-craigo/
http://www.barrelhousemag.com/blogall/2016/2/4/negative-creep-by-karen-craigo
http://www.diodepoetry.com/v7n3/content/craigo_k.html
http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/does-the-road-run-east-or-west-by-karen-craigo/
Interviews
https://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2016/06/07/interview-with-karen-craigo/
http://mcblogs.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/2015/08/13/duplicated-qa-with-poet-karen-craigo/
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
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