Sometimes the Prompt is What the Heart Remembers
Daily Prompt
“I know I’ve loved you before.”~Melissa Etheridge
Make art about other lives, about remembering Love.
Archive for November, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt Just Makes Good Sense
Daily Prompt
“After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things”~Wallace Stevens
Make art about the practicality of autumn.
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #wordsmatter
Sometimes the Prompt Really Hurts My Heart
LateNightDailyPrompt
Spent the day workin on a meal planning/shopping/cooking tutorial for some of my students who struggle with making their food dollars stretch.
In 2014:
46.7 million people (14.8 percent) were in poverty.
15.5 million (21.1 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty.
4.6 million (10 percent) seniors 65 and older were in poverty.
The overall poverty rate according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure is 15.3 percent, as compared with the official poverty rate of 14.8 percent.[ii]
Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure, there are 48.4 million people living in poverty, nearly 2 million more than are represented by the official poverty measure (46.7 million).
48.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 32.8 million adults and 15.3 million children.
And this doesn’t even begin to touch the problems of global hunger.
Make art about literal, physical, hunger.
Sometimes the Prompt is Rebellious
Daily Prompt
Make art about protest, or art that IS protest.
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #protest #wordsmatter
Monday Must Read! Jennifer K. Sweeney: Little Spells
Monday Must Read!
This week, meet Jennifer K. Sweeney, the author of three poetry collections: Little Spells, newly released from New Issues Press, How to Live on Bread and Music, which received the James Laughlin Award, the Perugia Press Prize and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, and Salt Memory. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, a Hedgebrook residency, the Elinor Benedict Poetry Award from Passages North and two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg awards. Recent poems have appeared in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Linebreak, Mid-American Review, New American Writing, Pleiades, and Verse Daily.
Jennifer’s Website:
http://www.jenniferksweeney.com/
Get Jennifer’s Beautiful Books!
Little Spells
http://www.wmich.edu/newissues/titles/sweeney-littlespells.html
How to Live on Bread and Music
http://www.perugiapress.com/books/how-to-live-on-bread-and-music/
Read more of Jennifer’s work online!
Academy of American Poets
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jennifer-k-sweeney
The Noe Valley Voice
http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/2010/July-August/OVJS.htm
Connotation Press
http://www.connotationpress.com/featured-guest-editor/may-2010/427-jennifer-k-sweeney-poetry
Linebreak
https://linebreak.org/poems/the-somnambulist/
Hear Jennifer read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csxTf4xmK8k
Interviews
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/01/poet_jennifer_k_sweeney_discus.html
At Donna Vorreyer’s Fill in the Blanks
https://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/fill-in-the-blanks-with-jennifer-k-sweeney/
http://tinderboxeditions.blogspot.com/2015/07/book-interview-little-spells-by.html
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Sometimes the Prompt is Dark, and Lovely
Daily Prompt
“And I have learned my lessons in darkness”-from a poem I just wrote.
Make art about darkness.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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