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March 21, 2016
Sometimes the Prompt Gets By With a Little Help From Friends
Daily Prompt
Great conversation thread yesterday started by the amazing poet and person Karen Craigo on Facebook regarding what we can do all to support poetry and other poets. Got me thinking about how my mama always quoted John Donne, his “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions,” saying “No man is an island.”
Make art about community, abut community-building, about our need for community.
Monday Must Read! Rachel Heimowitz: What the Light Reveals
Monday Must Read! Rachel Heimowitz: What the Light Reveals
This week meet Rachel Heimowitz, the author of the chapbook, What the Light Reveals (Tebot Bach Press, 2014.) Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Spillway, Crab Orchard Review, and Prairie Schooner and she has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. She is currently the editor of arc-24, the literary journal of The Israel Association of Writers in English and she is due to receive her MFA from Pacific University in Spring 2015.
Visit Rachel’s Website
http://www.rachelheimowitz.com/#!bio/c1ktj
Buy Rachel’s book!
Tebot Bach Press: http://www.tebotbach.org/publication.html#lightreveals
Praise for What the Light Reveals
In poem after vivid poem, Rachel Heimowitz “gather[s] what is holy/into [her] palms,” using words and “the light between words” to describe life in contemporary Israel—fraught with danger and uncertainty as well as joy and vision. The precise music of these poems moves from somber moments of religious and historical reflection to the description of dramatic, even frightening, events in contemporary life, proving once again that political realities, faith, and personal, familial life are inescapably intertwined. These are, above all, accomplished and beautiful poems that will be read and reread for a very long time.
—Gale Wronsky
Rachel Heimowitz’s collection of poems, What the Light Reveals, is a remarkable debut. This brilliant, sobering, often harrowing – yet always lyrical – account of life in Israel is also a meditation on faith and family, both immediate family and the larger human family as well. As Rachel Heimowitz reckons her place as a woman in a time and place of war, we find ourselves, as readers, enveloped in one of the most intimate and dramatic sequences of poems in recent years. This is a book to cherish.—David St. John
“Holding”, Rachel Heimowitz says, “is a woman’s purpose”, and by “holding” she means keeping, securing, preserving, remembering, carrying deep inside as in prayer, witnessing, and testifying truthfully, earnestly and urgently. It is a woman’s purpose, this is true, and it is the poet’s purpose, too. Sometimes it is a splendid accident when a gifted poet is thrown into places and times that demand the poet’s heart and eye. In What the Light Reveals, Heimowitz shows herself to be precisely that poet, and the result is poetry of grace, exquisite wrenching, and stark honesty.—Kwame Dawes
Listen to Poems from What the Light Reveals
http://www.rachelheimowitz.com/#!blank/c6ll
Read More From Rachel Online:
http://composejournal.com/articles/rachel-heimowitz-two-poems/
http://www.crowhollowbooks.com/m1-1–rachel-heimowitz.html
http://www.soul-lit.com/poems/v5/Hemiowitz/index.html
http://atticusreview.org/bright-eyes-tight/
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
March 20, 2016
Spring Is Prompting All Over!
Two Prompts ‘Cause I’m Sooooo Happy Spring’s Here!
Happy Spring Prompt 1
Dreamt last night I was playing with a little bitty baby bear We tussled and snuggled and giggled and romped. Make art about a baby’s capacity for joy. :-) Or about a bear. :-)
Happy Spring Prompt 1
Make art with the first day of spring, about rebirth.
March 19, 2016
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Survivors and Rain
Daily Prompt Catch-Up!
3/18/2016
Make art about survivors.
3/19/2016
Make art inspired by a rainy Saturday.
March 18, 2016
Friday Call for Submissions Love! Blue Mesa Review
Friday Call for Submissions Love!
Blue Mesa Review
2 weeks left!
GENERAL READING PERIOD: September 30 – March 31
“Blue Mesa Review accepts previously unpublished work in Fiction (up to 6,000 words), Nonfiction (up to 6,000 words), Poetry (3-5 poems), and Visual Art. We have a rotating editorial board, so each issue is fresh and unique. In general, we are seeking strong voices and lively, compelling narrative with a fine eye for craft. We look forward to reading your best work!
“We only considered unpublished work. Please do not submit anything that has been published on your blog, through your Facebook page, in other magazines including those online, or in an anthology or chapbook.
*We only accept submissions online through Submittable. We do not accept submissions via email or postal mail. Any submissions received by means other than Submittable will be returned to the submitter unread or recycled if a stamped, self-addressed envelope was not provided.
*We gladly accept simultaneous submissions. Please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere and withdraw your submission through the Submittable system. If a poem in a group of 3-5 poems is accepted, simply add a note identifying the piece that is no longer available.
*Individuals previously affiliated with the University of New Mexico (students, staff, and/or faculty), should not submit to Blue Mesa Review until they have been unaffiliated for five full years.
*Due to the high volume of submissions we receive, response time can be longer than our standard two-six months. Please be patient. If you have not heard from us in six months, you can email us at bmreditr@unm.edu. “Submission Query” should be the subject line.
*Submissions should be saved in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Prose submissions should be double-spaced. Poetry can be single-spaced. Please use a standard typeface and font size (12 pt). Pages should be numbered and a brief cover letter should be provided. Pages should be numbered and a cover letter should be provided.
Rights: We ask for first North American serial rights and non-exclusive electronic rights for our website. Blue Mesa Reviewdoes not consider work that has been previously published in print or online. Rights revert to the author upon publication. Each piece is published in our online issue and considered for our Annual Print Issue.”
Blue Mesa’s Website: http://bluemesareview.org/
March 17, 2016
Sometimes We Have to Lean Into the Prompt
Daily Prompt
Make art about the difference between hearing and listening.
March 16, 2016
Sometimes the Day is the Poem
“So long now I been out in the rain and snow, but Winter’s come and gone, a little bird told me so….” :-) New beginnings, y’all. Letting go of what doesn’t work, moving forward to where Love is
Sometimes You Have To Let the Prompt In
Daily Prompt
Before my mama went on to the next life, she told me “You’ve got to LET someone love you, Mary, really Love you.” One of the lessons I’m still learning, both about myself, and about other people.
You can only love someone as much as they’ll let you.
Make art inspired by this.
Great insights on this can be found here.
March 15, 2016
Sometimes the Prompt Floats On the Fields
Daily Prompt
“…careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist …”~John Geddes
Make art with mist as the central metaphor.
March 14, 2016
Sometimes the Prompt Shifts and Flows
Daily Prompt
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein
Make art with deliberate shifts in time.
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