Sometimes The Prompt Shows the Way
Daily Prompt
Loving the lights this gray rainy day.
Make art about Light.
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Archive for December, 2015
Sometimes the Prompt’s Right In Your Own Hands
Daily Prompt
“I thought of happiness, how it is woven
Out of the silence in the empty house each day
And how it is not sudden and it is not given
But is creation itself like the growth of a tree….”~May Sarton
Make art about making your own happiness.
Monday Must Read! Nancy Peacock: A Broom of One’s Own
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Nancy Peacock! Nancy is a mostly self-taught author. Her first novel, Life Without Water, was chosen as a New York Times Most Notable Book. She followed with a second novel, Home Across the Road. Her collection of essays on writing and housecleaning, (a personal favorite here in Mary’s house :-)) A Broom of One’s Own was published by Harper Collins. Her third novel The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson will be published in 2016 by Atria Press. Peacock has supported herself and her writing life with numerous jobs including housecleaner, bartender, carpenter, paper deliverer, assistant drum maker, costumer, baker, milker on a dairy farm, and teacher.
Nancy’s also an incredibly generous spirit, offering ongoing classes and workshops aimed at helping other writers, and she hosts a don’t-miss blog, Matginalia, filled with wonderful insight and writer wisdom.
Visit Nancy’s website:
Check Out Nancy’s Beautiful Books!
Life Without Water
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Without-Water-Nancy-Peacock/dp/0553379291
Home Across the Road
A Broom of One’s Own
http://www.harpercollins.com/9780061357879/a-broom-of-ones-own
Read Nancy’s Blog!
http://nancypeacockbooks.com/wp/
Praise for Nancy’s Work:
Publishers Weekly
http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56352-337-3
Kirkus Reviews
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nancy-peacock/the-life-and-times-of-persimmon-wilson/
Southern Scribe
http://www.southernscribe.com/reviews/general_fiction/Home_Across_Road.htm
Reading Group Guides:
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/life-without-water
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/reviews/home-across-the-road
Classes & Workshops
http://nancypeacockbooks.com/classes/
Happy Reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Gifts & Soup & Conspiracy Theories
Dec 18
Wrapping presents 🙂 I’ve never before managed to have them wrapped this early LOL Make art about something kept under wraps.
Dec 19
“That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Made Garden Vegetable Soup for me and my son.
Make art about soup.
Dec 20
Read a new story this morning about someone carrying a belief in a conspiracy theory too far. Make art about conspiracy.
Sometimes the Prompt Is Left Behind For You
Daily Prompt
Just drafted a poem called The Words Mama Left Me.
Make art about inheritance.
Sometimes the Prompt Dances In Like a Gift
Daily Prompt
Dreamt the walls of my bedroom melted away and I found myself surrounded by a herd of gentle deer, with their liquid eyes and dancer feet. They nuzzled me with velvet snouts, and whispered Welcome Welcome. We picked our way through a twilight wood, until the trees opened up into broad sweet-smelling fields. And then we ran, and ran, and ran. 🙂
Make art inspired by deer.
Sometimes the Prompt Requires Action
Daily Prompt
First week in the online class is all about defining activism, personal and professional.
Make art rooted in action.
Sometimes the Prompt Is A Tender Touch
Daily Prompt
Thinkin of all the loving care my nurse mama and sister gave their patients for decades.
Make art about nurses, about caretakers.
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Monday Must Read! Shaindel Beers: The Children’s War
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Shaindel Beers, the author of two full-length poetry collections, A Brief History of Time (2009) and The Children’s War and Other Poems (2013), both from Salt Publishing. Her awards include First place Karen Fredericks and Frances Willitts Poetry Prize, Grand Prize Co-winner Trellis Magazine sestina contest, First place Dylan Days Poetry Competition, and others. She currently serves as English department chair at Blue Mountain Community College, as Poetry Editor forContrary Magazine, and on the executive board of PAWS, the Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter. She lives in Pendleton, Oregon, with a zoo of pets and a wild four-year-old son.
Learn more
Official Site of Shaindel Beers
Buy Shaindel’s beautiful books!
A Brief History of Time
http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/a-brief-history-of-time-9781844715053
The Children’s War and Other Poems
http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-children-s-war-9781844719303
Read More From Shaindel Online:
“Death, Sleep, Beauty” by Shaindel Beers | Pine Hills Review
http://www.voiceinjournal.com/shaindel-beers-the-imprecision-of-language/
An American Meditation — Poetry by Shaindel Beers
http://www.theenchantingverses.org/uploads/4/6/1/6/461698/shaindelbeers.pdf
http://ithacalit.com/shaindel-beers.html#.Vm7AYEorLDd
http://www.shadowgraphquarterly.com/shadowgraph-quarterly-winter-2015/shaindel-beers/
Essays by and about Shaindel:
“Creep”: Thoughts on Abuse and Survival » Real Pants
Hundreds of Dollars | i believe you | it’s not your fault
Hot Teachers, Gaslighting, and Sexual Abuse in Academia: Reflecting on Essays by Shaindel Beers by Leslie Salas
Hear Shaindel read:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1wdbxsNAc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2tucUP8yYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-ETvj3LeE
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