Sometimes The Prompt Is A Thing With Feathers
Daily Prompt
Little Juncos, as if they’re floating, on top of the snow.
Make art about balancing on the surface.
Archive for January, 2016
Special Blizzard Call For Submissions
Seems appropriate 🙂
Storm Cellar
Deadline: Rolling
“Storm Cellar, a print-and-ebook journal of new writing and art, seeks submissions for issue 5.2. We’re looking for aesthetic ambition and risk, formally, emotionally, amazingly. We encourage especially: under-represented voices, people of color, women, and Midwesterners. Send us your space capsules, jungles, double-crosses, and secret crushes.”
Full guidelines at stormcellarquarterly.com/submit; submission manager atstormcellar.submittable.com.
Sometimes You Can Smell the Prompt Coming
Daily Prompt
Make art about the scent of weather, the smell of snow coming.
Sometimes the Prompt Is Sold Out
Daily Prompt
Pre-winter-storm panic is on where I am.
Make art about needing bread and milk.
Sometimes the Prompt Is Colder Than Cold
Daily Prompt
“This inwardness, this ice, this wide boreal whiteness”~Christian Wiman
Make art about Ice.
Sometimes the Prompt Reminds Us Who We Really Are
Daily Prompt
Make art about justice.
Or interconnectedness.
Thank you, Dr. King.
Monday Must Read! Lesléa Newman, I Carry My Mother
This week meet Lesléa Newman, the author of 70 books for readers of all ages including the poetry collections, Still Life with Buddy, Nobody’s Mother, and Signs of Love. In 2012, her novel-in-verse, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard, received a Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association and was named a “Must Read” title by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Ms. Newman has won many literary awards including poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation; the Burning Bush Poetry Prize; the Americus Review poetry prize, and second place runner-up in the Solstice Literary Journal poetry competition. Her poetry has been published in Spoon River Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Evergreen Chronicles, Moment Magazine, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Lilith Magazine, Kalliope, The Sun, Bark Magazine, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Seventeen Magazine and others. Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award Finalists and she has received four Pushcart Prize nominations. From 2008-2010 she served as the poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts. Currently she is a faculty member of Spalding University’s low-residency MFA in Writing program. Her newest poetry collection, I Carry My Mother was published in January 2015 by Headmistress Press.
Lesléa’s website: http://www.lesleanewman.com/newbks.htm
Buy Lesléa Newman’s latest poetry book, I Carry My Mother:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0692277056/leslenewmawrite/
Buy Lesléa Newman’s novel-in-verse, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0763658073/leslenewmawrite/
Poetry by Lesléa Newman:
“How to Watch Your Father Watch Your Mother Die”
http://www.masspoetry.org/poemofthemoment4/#pomnewman
“Looking at Her”
http://www.lavrev.net/2014/12/leslea-newman.html
“I Carry My Mother”
http://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2015/06/12/i-carry-my-mother-by-leslea-newman/
“Teen Angels”
http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2013/04/leslea-newman-teen-angels.html
Interviews
“Getting to Know Lesléa Newman and her new book, I Carry My Mother
http://www.masspoetry.org/newbooknewman/
“Poet to Poet: Jane Yolen interviews Lesléa Newman”
http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/2015/01/poet-to-poet-jane-yolen-and-leslea.html
“On Poetry, Mentoring, and Writing for Adults and Teens”
http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/03/leslea-newman-on-poetry-mentoring-and.html
“It’s My Job To Use My Imagination: Writing October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard”
http://www.recorder.com/home/11350058-95/its-my-job-to-imagine
Articles:
“Formally Yours: The Joys of Writing Formal Verse”
http://www.spaldingmfablog.org/?p=318
“Writing October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard: An 11 Year Journey”
“Dear Professor H.”
http://passagesnorth.com/2014/10/writers-on-writing-95-leslea-newman/
“Allen, Adieu: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg”
http://www.lesleanewman.com/allen_adieu.html
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Sometimes the Prompt Makes It All Come Clear
Daily Prompt
“Snow falling soundlessly will always fill my heart with sweet clarity” ~Novala Takemoto
Make art about the musings brought on by falling snow.
Sometimes the Prompt Follows You Down the Road
Daily Prompt
The pups and I had company this morning.
Make art inspired by crows.
Get-Your-Write-On Promptathon! New Workshop Offering
NEW WORKSHOP OFFERING! 🙂
Get-Your-Write-On Promptathon!
Join me this spring!
June 3-5, 2016
at the beautiful historic writers retreat The Porches, in Norwood VA
5 Sessions of Diverse and Intriguing Prompts
designed to inspire, incite, and ignite your creativity!
Come write with us! Let’s make some beautiful work together!
4 Spaces available–Reserve your spot now!
This workshop will be a fun and generative weekend of inspiration focused on generating new writing in a supportive and easy environment. The weekend is open to writers of all genres – poetry, fiction, nonfiction– even to those who think they’re not writers! As a group, we’ll go through five different sessions of prompts and exercises designed to ignite creativity, inspire new ideas or reinvigorate old ones, maybe even giving ourselves the push to finish something we are currently working on!
After writing, participants will have the option to share what’s created for gentle feedback, if desired. Perfect for those who want some inspiration, and to write to generate and gather new material!
Join us for a weekend of freewheeling creativity and encouragement! And I cook for you! 🙂
$275 – includes described three-day workshop, one shared evening meal prepared by instructor, light breakfast fare Saturday and Sunday mornings, and the beautiful relaxing accommodations at The Porches.
Message me on Facebook, or email carrollhackettma@gmail.com
Pass this on, please, to any you think might be interested! Thanks
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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