Sometimes the Prompt Takes You Far From Home
Daily Prompt
“Never a prophet in your own land.”~Luke 4:24
Make art about a modern-day prophet.
Archive for February, 2016
Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Crazy :-)
Daily Prompt
Another snow day here, and one of my pups is already feeling like she’s been inside too long 🙂
Make art about Cabin Fever.
Monday Must Read! Sandra Marchetti, Confluence
This week, meet Sandra Marchetti, the author of Confluence, a debut full-length collection of poetry from Sundress Publications. She is also a co-author of Heart Radicals, a forthcoming chapbook of love poems from ELJ Publications. Eating Dog Press published an illustrated letterpress edition of her essays and poetry, A Detail in the Landscape, and her first volume, The Canopy, won Midwest Writing Center’s Mississippi Valley Chapbook Contest. Gulf Coast, Phoebe, and Prick of the Spindle have honored Sandra’s work in recent annual contests and her poetry appears widely in Subtropics, Ecotone, Green Mountains Review, Word Riot, Blackbird, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. Her essays and reviews can be found at The Rumpus, Words Without Borders, Mid-American Review and other venues. Sandra’s poetry and prose is anthologized in New Poetry from the Midwest, Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, The World is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins, and other volumes. She lives outside of Chicago with her husband.
Learn More:
https://www.facebook.com/sandywritingservices/
http://www.pw.org/content/sandra_marchetti
http://eljpublications.com/our-authors/sandra-marchetti/
Links to Purchase Books:
https://squareup.com/market/sundress-publications/confluence-by-sandra-marchetti-pre-order
http://www.mwcqc.org/books/the-canopy-by-sandra-marchetti/
Reviews of Confluence:
http://therumpus.net/2015/03/confluence-by-sandra-marchetti/
http://lit.newcity.com/2015/07/20/looking-at-longing-chicago-poet-sandra-marchetti-debuts-with-confluence/
http://www.raintaxi.com/confluence/
Links to Read Poems Online:
http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/january-2014-sandra-marchetti.html
http://www.splitlipmagazine.com/#!14-sandra-marchetti/c1pwa
http://themuseumofamericana.net/current-issue/poetry/three-poems-by-sandra-marchetti/
http://www.wordriot.org/archives/7484
http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/grace-by-sandra-marchetti/
Links to Listen/Watch Sandy Online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5m34WhZoRc
https://vimeo.com/125487102
http://sugarhousereviewblog.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-sound-of-sugarsandra-marchetti.html
http://www.menacinghedge.com/summer2014/entry-marchetti.php
Interviews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07wPT0pxXyw
https://geosireads.wordpress.com/2015/06/19/interview-with-sandra-marchetti-author-of-confluence/
http://entropymag.org/getting-lit-round-4-with-sandra-marchetti/
Happy reading!
xo
Mary
Sometimes the Prompt Is the Heart of It All
Valentine Prompt 🙂 from a favorite poem by a favorite poet ❤
“The heart shifts shape of its own accord—from bird to ax, from pinwheel
to budded branch”~Dorianne Laux
Make art about the heart.
Sometimes the Prompt Has To Come Off
Daily Prompt
“Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask?”~Søren Kierkegaard
Make art about masks.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up!
I’ve been sick, but now we’re back!
2/10/2016
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”~Sylvia Plath
Make art about breath, about breathing.
2/11/2016
“Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.”~Siri Hustvedt
Make art about illness.
2/12/2016
I’ve been watching the presidential debates. This is what I keep hearing: “Politics have no relation to morals.”~Niccolo Machiavelli
Make art about politics.
Sometimes the Prompt Is What You’re Seeking
Daily Prompt
“Every sacred mission, every hunt for hidden relics, I was looking for you.”~Dianna Hardy
Make art about a relic.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Babies, and Tribes, and Space–Oh My!
Daily Prompt Catch-Up!
2/6/2016
Today’s my daughter’s first baby shower 🙂 celebrating the arrival soon of my first grandchild. Make art about babies.
2/7/2016
Super Bowl Sunday 🙂 Make art about sports as tribal ritual.
2/8/2016
News this morning about how soon we’ll be traveling to Mars. Make art about space travel 🙂 “Space” can be literal or metaphorical.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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