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August 18, 2016
Some MidWeek Call for Submissions Love <3 Foliate Oak
Foliate Oak Seeks Strangely Beautiful Work
Deadline: October 1, 2016
Foliate Oak Literary Magazine wants your best writing, art, and photography. We are seeking submissions from contributors who we have not previously published. Please read our guidelines before submitting:www.foliateoak.com/submit.html.
From their guidelines:
“We love previously unpublished quirky writing that makes sense, preferably flash fiction (less than 1000 words). We are eager to read short creative nonfiction also. We rarely accept submissions that have over 2700 words. We enjoy poems that we understand, preferably not rhyming poems, unless you make the rhyme so fascinating we’ll wonder why we ever said anything about avoiding rhymes. Give us something fresh, unexpected, and will make us say, “Wow!” We’re not interested in homophobic, religious rants, or pornographic, violent stories.
Please: No genre (sci-fi, fantasy, fan fiction).”
Website: http://www.foliateoak.com/
More on their Guidelines and Submission here!
August 17, 2016
Daily Prompt Love <3 Talk Poverty
17 August 2016
US Poverty Rates as of 2014
For more information, visit Talk Poverty
Overall Poverty Rate: 14.8%
Percentage of people who fell below the poverty line—$23,834 for a family of four—in 2014
Twice the Poverty Level: 33.4%
Percent of people who fell below twice the poverty line—$47,668 for a family of four—in 2014
Half the Poverty Level: 6.6%
Percent of people who fell below half the poverty line—$11,917 for a family of four—in 2014
Child Poverty Rate: 21.1%
Percentage of children under age 18 who fell below the poverty line in 2014
African American Poverty Rate: 26.2%
Percentage of African Americans who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Hispanic Poverty Rate: 23.6%
Percentage of Hispanics who fell below the poverty line in 2014
White Poverty Rate: 10.1%
Percentage of non-Hispanic Whites who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Native American Poverty Rate: 28.3%
Percentage of Native Americans who fell below the poverty line in 2014
People with Disabilities Poverty Rate: 28.5%
Percentage of people with disabilities who fell below the poverty line in 2014
Make art about poverty.
August 16, 2016
Poetry House Concert Happiness! Scott Depot WV <3
I was in West Virginia this past weekend for a house concert style poetry reading in Scott Depot WV, hosted by the kind and generous Mary Imo Stike and John Stike[image error] The mountains as always were beautiful, my hosts warm and lovely, and the audience, around twenty-two people in attendance–were spirited and funny and smart and a very eclectic talented bunch themselves, in sooo many ways! We were also blessed with the beautiful musical talents of The Wild Hares! Awesome, funny, Doug, Jim, and Mike rocked the tunes before and after the reading[image error]
The conversation after the reading was just amazing! Talk of–yes, poetry :-)–but also of physics and spirituality, language and issues of class bias, tradition and preservation, the search for truth in so many ways beyond academia. I learned–and laughed :-)–with every conversation. I felt blessed to be in their presence. And twenty more copies of my crazy books out into the world![image error] Thank you, Mary and John, and thank you, West Virginia, for an incredible reading experience!
I do believe these house readings, the revival of the salon, are crucial to the future of poetry. So many readers and thinkers and lovers of words outside the insulated walls of academia! I’m grateful for that, and I can’t wait to meet more of them!
Some of my favorite pics from the trip[image error]❤
Click to view slideshow.
Daily Prompt <3 Facing the Past in Order to Heal
16 August 2016
Many nations with atrocities in their past—Germany, Rwanda, South Africa—prominently recognize their painful history with memorials, museums, and monuments. This kind of trutful recognition, acknowledgement, helps with healing.
We have yet to do that in the United States. As Jessica Leber writes in the linked article below, “Even today, the nation is largely silent about one of its historical periods of shame: the thousands of lynchings that terrorized southern blacks right up until the Civil Rights era.”
We can do this, y’all. We can be brave enough to face our own nightmares. We have to, if we are, as a nation, going to heal and come together.
, an Alabama organization led by civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, has, for the last few years, been working to place historical markers at lynching sites all around the country. At TED’s conference this week, the group showed a sneak preview of plans for a new national memorial to the victims of lynching that they hope to break ground on some time this year in Montgomery, Alabama.
“In America, we’re not free. We are burdened by a history of racial inequality and injustice. It compromises us. It constrains us,” says Stevenson. “We have to create a new relationship with this history.”
Make art about facing, acknowledging, being accountable for, hard truths about the past.
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Read here about a new building project designed to break this national silence.
This Stunning National Memorial Would Recognize America’s Legacy of Lynchings
August 15, 2016
So Excited and Grateful! Readings Upcoming This Fall!
Grateful to some generous lovely people for hosting readings for my crazy lil prose poems[image error] Upcoming readings this fall, from A Little Blood, A Little Rain (FutureCycle Press 2016), Trailer Park Oracle (Kelsay Books 2016), and The Night I Heard Everything (FutureCycle Press 2015).
August 13 – Scott Depot, WV, Hosted by Mary Imo and John Stike
October 1 – Heritage Village, Calhoun County Park, Grantsville, WV, Hosted by Lisa Hayes Minney
October 19 – Longwood University Writers Reading Series, Farmville VA
October 26 – Waterbean Reading Series, Waterbean Coffee, NorthCross Shopping Center 9705 Sam Furr Rd., Ste A, Huntersville, NC
December 5 – Readings on Roslyn, Winston Salem, NC, Hosted by Kathryn Milam
Grateful especially to these generous hosts, and to the publishers who made these books possible❤
Diane Kistner, Robert S. King, and all the great folks at FutureCycle Press
and
Karen Kelsay Davies, Editor of all All Things at Kelsay Books and Aldrich Press
Please check out their whole beautiful catalogs!
If you’re interested in hosting a reading or event, please contact me at carrollhackettma@gmail.com
Daily Prompt Love! <3 Mountains, and Mystery, and Music–Oh My! :-)
13 August 2016
Headed off to wild and wonderful West Virginia for a reading. Driving through these amazing Appalachian mountains always fills me with such awe.
Make art about the mysteries felt in mountains.
14 August 2016
Road Angel named Bay, a very large beautiful young man working as a cashier in a roadside stop, his smile like a bright bright beacon, caught me doing a lil dance in the aisle to the BeeGees piping in overhead. He grinned and immediately started dancing too
Monday Must Read! Pamela Duncan: Moon Women
This week meet Pamela Duncan! Novelist Pamela Duncan was born in Asheville and grew up in Black Mountain, Swannanoa, and Shelby, North Carolina. She holds a B.A. in journalism from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from North Carolina State University in Raleigh. She lives in Cullowhee, North Carolina and teaches creative writing atWestern Carolina University.
Her first novel, Moon Women, was a Southeastern Booksellers Association (now Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) Award Finalist, and her second novel, Plant Life, won the 2003 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction. She is the recipient of the 2007 James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South, awarded by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Her third novel, The Big Beautiful, was published in March 2007. An excerpt from Pam’s current novel-in-progress, The Wilder Place, can be heard here: http://www.pameladuncan.com/the_wilder_place__a_novel_in_progress__80970.htm
Visit Pam’s Website
Buy Pam’s Beautiful Books
Moon Women
https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Women-Pamela-Duncan/dp/0440236487
Plant Life
The Big Beautiful
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/43755/the-big-beautiful-by-pamela-duncan/9780385338387/
Excerpts, Interviews, & Reviews
Moon Women
http://www.pameladuncan.com/moon_women_15139.htm
Plant Life
http://www.pameladuncan.com/plant_life_15138.htm
The Big Beautiful
http://www.pameladuncan.com/the_big_beautiful_52887.htm
More About Pam Online
Publishers Weekly
http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-33518-8
Fantastic Fiction
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/d/pamela-duncan/plant-life.htm
BookPage
https://bookpage.com/reviews/2902-pamela-duncan-plant-life#.V7GuHfkrLDc
IndyWeek
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/pamela-duncan/Content?oid=1181965
Hear Pam Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrkiaeMdTEg
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
August 12, 2016
Friday Call for Submissions Love! Two Hawks Quarterly
One of my favorite journals!
TWO HAWKS QUARTERLY is an online journal affiliated with Antioch University Los Angeles’s BA program in creative writing and is setting the bar for contemporary literature with bold and illuminating poetry, fiction, CNF, and experimental work.
Submissions accepted year-round.
For guidelines seewww.twohawksquarterly.com.
Daily Prompt Love! <3 Cooking and What Woke You :-)
11 August 2016
Spent all day canning and preserving food. Always takes me back into the company of all those over time who did this before me, especially the women who taught me, as a child, to can and put up food for the winter.
Make art about food as heritage.
12 August 2016
Was abruptly awakened by a crow at the window, informing me—loudly–that the suet cages needed filling[image error]
Make art about being awakened suddenly.
August 10, 2016
Daily Prompt Love s in the Water
10 August 2016
Woke up hearing this song. One of my favorites.
Make art about where God is. Or about casting out a line into the darkness.
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