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Monday Must Read! Teow Lim Goh: Islanders

Teow This week meet Teow Lim Goh, the author of Islanders (Conundrum Press, 2016), a book of poems on the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station. Her writing has appeared in PANK, The Toast, Guernica, The Rumpus, Winter Tangerine Review, and Open Letters Monthly, among other publications. She also makes letterpress and art editions of poetry and other writings at her imprint Black Orchid Press. She lives in Denver.

Visit Teow’s Website: http://teowlimgoh.com/

Purchase Teow’s beautiful book! Islanders

Black Orchid Press Limited Edition! Teow’s work was the inaugural Black Orchid Press title, her work featured in a series of six letterpress postcards of poems. These were produced in a Limited Edition of 100, with all copies numbered and signed. Visit and purchase these Faraway Places.

More from Teow Online:

Selected Poems and Essays:

Three Poems at The Toast.

Split at Guernica Daily.

Flowers of Prison: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz at Open Letters Monthly.

The Stories that Bind Us at The Philadelphia Review of Books.

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Published on March 07, 2016 04:56

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Grief, Gratitude, and Finding Best Friends

3 /4/2016

I have Complicated Grief-Related PTSD. Some days I’m okay. Some days I think I’m okay, then I’m just—not, not okay at all.

Make art about grief.

grief-reaction

3/5/2016

The only way I have survived the extreme loss I’ve experienced in my life is by making a choice every day, sometimes every moment, to live not in grief, but in Gratitude.

Make art about Gratitude.

gratitude-rock

3/6/2016

Both my sons were home this weekend, and one of my greatest joys is to see them together as grown men, not just brothers, but friends. My best friend was my brother, and my oldest son once said, “How cool it is—to find your own best friend right in your family!”

Make art about siblings as friends.

boys

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Published on March 06, 2016 18:06

Sometimes The Prompt Is Scary

Daily Prompt

The Virginia General Assembly this week put forth House Bill 516 that requires high school teachers to notify parents if they’re going to teach books that parents might find objectionable (sexual content mostly) and gives those parents the right to object and demand alternative materials be taught.

Make art about censorship.

censor

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Published on March 03, 2016 04:52

We’re Almost There! Prompts, Prompts, & More Prompts!

Just realized this morning that come Friday, I’ll officially reach ONE YEAR of this Daily Prompt Madness! So much fun! Hope you’ve enjoyed it too! Git that creativity on, y’all!

Check out the Daily Prompt Big List here! And please share!

The more beautiful art we put into this crazy world, the better!

http://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/

unleash_creativity

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Published on March 02, 2016 07:37

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! A Little Help From Some Friends

So grateful to be blessed with good friends. Both prompts are inspired by the kindness of friends these last few days.

3/1/2016

My wise brother told me, in so many words, to remember that we can’t grasp the river.

Make art about letting it all flow as it will. Or about a river.

hands in river

3/2/2016

A sweet friend arrived with her tarot deck in hand and offered to give me a reading.

Make art inspired by the tarot.

queen_cups

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Published on March 02, 2016 07:05

New Publication! Thanks to The Blue Heron Review!

Grateful to the fine editors at Blue Heron Review for including me.

The poem here will be part of A Little Blood, A Little Rain, forthcoming later this spring from FutureCycle Press.

Scroll down to read all of the wonderful writers. I’m honored to be in their company

My poem “It Is Not What Waits At the Door, This Love” :-)

http://blueheronreview.com/blue-heron-review-issue-5-winter2016/

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Published on February 29, 2016 08:35

Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Jump

Daily Prompt

Happy Leap Day!

A leap year, where an extra day is added to the end of February every four years, is down to the solar system’s disparity with the Gregorian calendar. A complete orbit of the earth around the sun takes exactly 365.2422 days to complete, but the Gregorian calendar uses 365 days. So leap seconds – and leap years – are added as means of keeping our clocks (and calendars) in sync with the Earth and its seasons.

Other cool facts about Leap Years can be found here:

Make art inspired by Leap Day or Leap Year :-)

leap frog

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Published on February 29, 2016 06:42

Monday Must Read! Susan Deer Cloud: Hunger Mountain

SusanDeerCloud400x300 This week meet one of my favorite poets and one of the most beautiful souls in this world, Susan Deer Cloud. Susan is a mixed lineage Catskill Mountain Indian who has traveled to and sojourned in many places. She has a B.A. & M.A. in Literature/Creative Writing from Binghamton University and an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from Goddard College. She has taught literature and creative writing at the college level. Deer Cloud has been awarded various prizes, fellowships and awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, 2 New York State Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, a Chenango County Council for the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant, Allen Ginsberg 1st Prize in Poetry (twice) & Prairie Schooner’s Readers’ Choice Prize in Poetry . Her books includethe stunning Hunger Mountain (Shabda Press 2014), Fox Mountain (Foothills Publishing, 2013), I Was Indian Before Being Indian Was Cool, I & I (Foothills Publishing, 2012), Braiding Starlight (Split Oak Press, 2010), Car Stealer(Foothills Publishing, 2009), and The Last Ceremony (Foothills Publishing, 2007).

Hunger Mountain (Seriously, you need to own this book!)

Shabda Press: http://www.shabdapress.com/susan-deer-cloud.html

Buy Hunger Mountain!

http://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Moon-Susan-Deer-Cloud/dp/0985315172

Praise for Hunger Mountain

“Native American poet Susan Deer Cloud is the master of the long lament, and Hunger Moon is her mournful and magical masterpiece. The work is a song of celebration, but at times her pen becomes a low-sounding cedar flute, searching for that sorrowful note at the bottom of all the holes. When Deer Cloud lets loose one of her salty soliloquies about her mixed lineage mountain people and their exuberant and long-suffering lives, she clears the deck and points the finger at us all. But none of the colorful characters that inhabit Hunger Moon receive more poetic punishment than the poet herself. She wields a self-deprecating style of humor that goes beyond the call of humility. Deer Cloud digs deeper into the back-country Catskill mud she flings to find momentary marvels of wisdom and insight that are simply stunning … sentences of solid gold. At those moments … and there are many … readers will feel they have discovered genius and perhaps touched immortality.”–Evan Pritchard, poet and professor of Native Studies (Marist, Pace, Vassar, etc.) and author of No Word For Time, Bird Medicine, Native New Yorkers.

Find Susan’s Other Books!

Fox Mountain

http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2013/id64.htm

I WAS INDIAN (Before Being Indian Was Cool): An Anthology of Indigenous Poetry, Volume II http://foothillspublishing.com/2013/id58.htm

Car Stealer

http://foothillspublishing.com/2010/id48.htm

I WAS INDIAN (Before Being Indian Was Cool): an Anthology of Indigenous Poetry, Volume I

http://foothillspublishing.com/2009/id62.htm

The Last Ceremony

http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2007/id164.htm

In the Moon when the Deer Lose Their Horns

(Clements, Susan) :-) The first book I ever read by this poet, back in 1993 :-)