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July 28, 2016
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Windows, Thirst, and Falling in Love
26 July 2016
“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” ― Edith Wharton
Make art about a window opening.
27 July 2016
“Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.”―Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Make art about what you thirst for.
28 July 2016
Make art about falling in Love with the world, even—especially–when it seems to be at its most heartbreaking, when it seems too difficult to Love.
July 25, 2016
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Thresholds and John Donne
24 July 2016
Liminal (adj.)
“of or pertaining to a threshold,” 1884, from Latin limen “threshold, cross-piece, sill” (see limit (n.)) + -al (1). Related: Liminality.
Definition: occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.
Make art about being on a threshold, being in a liminal space.
25 July 2016
“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.”~John Donne
Make art about being your own palace, or about the world as a jail.
Monday Must Read! Monty Campbell Jr: A Large Dent in the Moon
Meet Monty Campbell Jr, author of Train through the Video Game (Shabda Press) and A Large Dent in the Moon(Foothills). Monty is a member of the Cayuga Tribe of the Six Nations. He grew up in and around Gowanda, NY, the Cattaraugus Reservation and Rochester, NY’s inner city. His work is also included in the indigenous poets anthology, I was Indian (FootHills Publishing, 2009) and Simpatico, On the Road (Simpatico, 2009).
Buy A Large Dent in the Moon!
http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2011/id21.htm
Praise for A Large Dent in the Moon
Erupting from the junkyards, dead eyed alleys and psycho-babble of our raped and compromised Turtle Island, Monty Campbell, Jr., incandescently stands for truth in all its flawed magnificence. A Large Dent in the Moon is a clarion call to non-Indians and Indians alike to get it together before we drown in a tsunami of exploitation, lies and mediocrity. Monty Campbell is a wichasha wakan for our times. I’ve had the great fortune of reading through his book three times now and each time I was left shattered, awed and breathless. May these poems be the first of many such incantations.~Paul Hapenny
This first book by Monty Campbell, Jr. makes a large dent, indeed. Careening around every corner the reader finds startling metaphors, precision line-breaks, and enough poetic arsenal to supply NASA’s next mission. Monty’s “music slides / through the genetic / garbage of a / Rochester alley…” His poems are Manifestos / written on / cell phones / portraits of / everyday / struggle” and “Rez Photos” where “all the skin is brown, / weighed / and forgiven…” These poems are alternately sensual, despairing, angry, hopeful, but always crafted with love out of three decades of survival on the real side of America’s tracks. If Lou Reed is correct that it takes a “Busload of Faith to get by,” here it is, achieving lift-off.~John Roche
From the Introduction:
I think that never have I read work by an indigenous writer in which so much is said about the beauty of Earth filtered through palimpsest-images of city, ghost streets, train tracks, and litter forced upon Turtle Island and our planet altogether. It is beauty conveyed through loss. I literally hurt when I read Monty’s poetry. Yet, as I state in my blurb, Monty’s poems have led me to understand something about love which I never understood before. When you read this book, I trust you will get why I cannot paraphrase any poems herein; doing so would strip the tropes, deep song, and enfolding spaces of their haunting realness, evocations and dreamscapes (if not nightmare-scapes). It would do dishonor to that love.~Susan Deer Cloud
Read More From Monty Online
http://www.alestlelive.com/lifestyles/article_da20c15c-2faa-11e3-9855-0019bb30f31a.html
https://spaceslitmag.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/writers-reading-monty-campbell-jr/
http://www.amerinda.org/talkingstick/15-2/
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
July 23, 2016
Daily Prompt <3 What the Body Has To Say
23 July 2016
Reading one of my favorite writers this morning, Linda Hogan. If only we all could listen in the miraculous way she does.
“When the body wishes to speak, she will”~Linda Hogan
Make art about what the body has to say.
July 22, 2016
Daily Prompt <3 The Power of Choice
22 July 2016
Make art inspired by this quote.
July 21, 2016
Call for Submissions Love <3 Print-Oriented Bastards
PRINT-ORIENTED BASTARDS
A quarterly online literary magazine that features emerging writers and artists. All genres are welcome, including literary comics, interviews, reviews, and cross-genre work. Simultaneous submissions accepted year-round. Response time is typically 1 month. For guidelines and the latest issue, visit www.printorientedbastards.com.
Complete Guidelines Here: http://www.printorientedbastards.com/submit.html
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Revolution, Creation, and Dreaming
7/19/2016
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”~John Kennedy
Make art about revolution.
7/20/2016
When the world becomes too much, I make things, usually for other people. So this week I’m sewing old fashioned cloth dolls to send to the children’s unit at the Massey Cancer Center.
Make art about when the world becomes too much.
7/21/2016
In the way I was taught, there are four fundamental types of dreams: waking life dreams; visitation dreams; teaching dreams; and traveling dreams.
Make art about one of these types of dreams.
July 18, 2016
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3
7/16/2016
“Late, I have come to a parched land/doubting my gift, if gift I have,/the inspiration of water”~Dannie Abse
Make art about the inspiration of water.
7/17/2016
“Poor dear son, though you were not my son, I felt to love you as a son, what short time I saw you sick & dying here—“~Walt Whitman (letter to Erastus Haskell’s parents)
Make art about how they are all our sons.
7/18/2016
“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”~Mother Teresa
Make art about the open heart.
Monday Must Read! Jonathan Moody: Olympic Butter Gold
This week meet Jonathan Moody. Jonathan holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and a BS degree in Psychology from Xavier University of Louisiana. Author of The Doomy Poems (Six Gallery Press, 2012) and Olympic Butter Gold (Northwestern University Press, 2015), winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, his poetry has appeared in such publications as African American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Borderlands, Boston Review, The Common, and Harvard Review Online. He lives in Fresno, Texas, with his wife and son.
Buy Jonathan Moody’s Books
Olympic Butter Gold
http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/olympic-butter-gold
Jonathan Moody grew up during the Golden Ages of hip-hop and listened to rap that was as adventurous and diverse as his military upbringing. When rap’s Golden Ages expired, the music’s innovativeness and variety diminished. Moody’s second book, Olympic Butter Gold, winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, responds to Chuck D’s claim that “if there was a HIP-HOP or Rap Olympics, I really don’t think the United States would get Gold, Silver or Brass.” From the poem “Opening Ceremony,” in the voice of a heroin addict struggling to use Lady Liberty’s torch to cook “The American Dream,” to “Dear 2Pac,” an autobiographical account of teaching Tupac Shakur’s poetry to engage high school students indifferent to literature, Moody shares a worldview that is simultaneously apocalyptic and promising.
The Doomy Poems
https://www.amazon.com/Doomy-Poems-Jonathan-Moody/dp/1926616448
“The Doomy Poems challenges the notion that the blues embodies resignation: a self-imposed suffering in which one chooses to remain stuck at the crossroads of nostalgia and obsession. Through persona poems written in the voices of three characters, Jonathan Moody illustrates that in both the South (Houston) and the North (Pittsburgh) the roads to love and integrity, although freshly paved, are strewn with nails and shards of glass.”
Read More From Jonathan Online
http://harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu/?q=features/poetry/inefficiency-burning
https://www.bostonreview.net/poetry/npm15-jonathan-moody-aubade-the-son-rising
http://www.storysouth.com/poetry/2006/07/moody_three_poems.html
http://fplrefdesk.blogspot.com/2013/12/2-poems-by-featured-poet-jonathan-moody.html
Interviews
http://thecommononline.org/features/topical-poetry-interview-jonathan-moody
http://1839mag.com/profiles/observing-the-wider-universe-through-hip-hop-a-look-at-jonathan-moody/
http://thecommonmag.tumblr.com/post/109985371108/topical-poetry-an-interview-with-jonathan-moody
Hear Jonathan Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l10VqL4VSZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMJNpbW8W6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4lkbkp4e1w
Happy Reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
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