"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

Archive for November, 2015

Monday Must Read! Jenny Sadre-Orafai: Paper, Cotton, Leather

 

sadre-orafaiMonday Must Read! 

This week meet Jenny Sadre-Orafai, the author of Paper, Cotton, Leather (Press 53) and four chapbooks. Recent poetry has appeared in Tammy, Loose Change, Bear Review, Linebreak, Redivider, Eleven Eleven, Thrush Poetry Journal, PANK, and Rhino. Her prose has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, The Toast, and South Loop Review. She is co-founding editor of Josephine Quarterly and an Associate Professor of English at Kennesaw State University.

Jenny’s Website!

http://www.jennysadre-orafai.com

Get Jenny’s Book

Paper, Cotton, Leather (Press 53)

http://www.press53.com/bioJennySadreOrafai.html

Read Jenny’s Work Online

Poetry

“The Burn I Put” in Bear Review

http://issuu.com/bearreview/docs/bear_review_1.1/1

“How Much Gospel” in Loose Change

http://loosechangemagazine.org/jenny-sadre-orafai52/

“The Morning of Your 35th Birthday” in Linebreak

https://linebreak.org/poems/the-morning-of-your-35th-birthday/

“Karaj” in Thrush

http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/may-2014-jenny-sadre-orafai.html

Creative Non-Fiction

“Kamehameha The Great” in The Rumpus

http://therumpus.net/2012/05/kamehameha-the-great/

“Live Bears “ in The Toast

http://the-toast.net/2014/02/05/live-bears-on-living-in-tourist-towns/

“The Prettiest Girls in the World Are Born in Alabama in The Rumpus

http://therumpus.net/2014/01/the-prettiest-girls-in-the-world-are-born-in-alabama/

Hear Jenny read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCYioPwKz1I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZScp7oxC9U

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Posit: A Journal of Literature & Art

Friday Call for Submissions Love! 

Posit: A Journal of Literature & Art 

Posit considers submissions between September 1st and May 31st, via Submittable.

Posit publishes four issues per year of finely crafted contemporary literary and visual art. Due to the large number of excellent submissions we receive, we are currently reading for publication in mid- and late- 2016. We are looking for innovation, aesthetic vision, and accomplished craftsmanship. Our tastes are non-sectarian, with an interest in the experimental. We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Posit considers only unpublished written work, and acquires first-time North American rights upon publication. Thereafter, all rights revert to the author, and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to Posit is made. No such restrictions apply to visual art submissions.

  • Poetry: 3-6 poems, no line limits, but no epics, please.
  • Fiction and hybrids: 1000 words or less.
  • Visual Art: Please submit six to twelve jpeg images, an inventory list, an artist’s statement and a one-paragraph bio.
  • Film and animation: no longer than 3 minutes, please.

See Posit’s website for complete details.

 

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Sometimes the Prompt Never Ends

Daily Prompt
 
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”~Henry David Thoreau
 
Make art about things eternal.
 
(Photo by my late husband John Little Bear Eaton)
john's hand eternity

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Sometimes the Prompt Goes On and On

Daily Prompt
 
“When the singer’s gone Let the song go on”~Art Garfunkle
 
Make art about the persistence of Love.
 
#writingprompt #art #fiction #nonfiction #wordsmatter #loveneverends

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Got Book? Special Thursday Call for Submissions! Main Street Rag

Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award

Deadline: February 1, 2016
Award: $1,200, publication, and contributor copies
Fee: $25

Send between 48 and 84 pages of poetry. No restriction on content style or subject. We’re looking for the best manuscript.

Complete Guidelines here! 

http://03c9c48.netsolhost.com/WordPress/contests/the-main-street-rag-poetry-book-award/

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Sometimes the Prompt is Unsung

Daily Prompt

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell

Make art about heroism, about heroes.

Veterans-Day-Thank-You-2

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Sometimes the Prompt is on Fire

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“When born you inherit what’s burning.”~Liam Rector Tattooed on my right arm. Considering the courage of the activists at University of Missouri.

Make art about protest.

 

burning

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up!

Daily Prompt Catch-Up

November 7

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”~ Joseph Campbell

Make art about braving the darkness. 

November 8

Wrote a poem today called “The List of Dangers.”

Make art about an unexpected form of danger. 

November 9

Keep hearin the song Little Boxes this morning. Most people now know it as the theme song for the TV show Weeds, but it originally was recorded in 1961 by American folk artist Malvina Reynolds. 

Make art inspired by little boxes. 

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Monday Must Read! Christine Stoddard: The Children of Jackson Ward

christine stoddardThis week meet Christine Stoddard, a Salvadoran-Scottish-American writer and artist. In 2014, Folio Magazine named her one of the media industry’s top 20 visionaries in their 20s for starting Quail Bell Magazine. She also is a Puffin Foundation national emerging artist. She has edited two anthologies for Quail Bell Magazine, in addition to co-authoring Images of America: Richmond Cemeteries and directing a documentary on Edgar Allan Poe.

Currently, she is completing her book, Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia, for The History Press. Christine’s work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, So to Speak, The New York Transit Museum, Bustle, Yellow Chair Review, the Poe Museum, local PBS stations, and beyond.

In early 2016, Christine will be participating in Tupelo Press’ 30/30 Project and completing a writing residency at Sundress Academy for the Arts.

Learn more about her at www.wordsmithchristine.com

More from Christine online!

The Children of Jackson Ward, an art project with a social justice perspective. http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/about/the-children-of-jackson-ward-manuscript

YesPoetry

http://yespoetry.com/post/108735306281/photo-poetry-christine-stoddard

Brooklyn Quarterly

http://brooklynquarterly.org/tbq-artist-series-christine-stoddard/

The Poet Time

http://thepoettime.com/

Fourth and Sycamore

http://fourthandsycamore.com/2015/09/14/my-nightingale-a-poem-by-christine-stoddard/

 

Video

The Persistence of Poe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eKwn5D8Vg

Everyday Seeing (from The Children of Jackson Ward)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRWdDriov4

Nine Flights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWVgBHla2Bk

Chalk Poetry

https://vimeo.com/21420381

Before Morning Sobers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtFJu_XHvhI

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Another New Journal Seeking Submissions for Inaugural Issue: Courtship of Winds!

The Courtship Of Winds

Submissions accepted year-round.

“It goes without saying that we are looking to publish the best work. For details regarding submissions and a sense of the editorial direction of The Courtship of Winds go towww.thecourtshipofwinds.org.

We are interested in publishing “unknowns,” as well as well-established writers. A writer who has published absolutely nothing will be read the same way as a prize-winning “name” writer. Work that does something not seen before or, more to the point, makes us see differently—call it avant-garde, experimental, or what you like—is always welcome.”

 

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