Sometimes the Prompt Is a Heartbeat Away
Daily Prompt
Dreamt someone I love brought me a drum, and together we listened to its heartbeat. Make art about a drum, the sound of a drum, the drum as a call to prayer.
Archive for March, 2016
Sometimes the Prompt Has a Certain Ring To It
Daily Prompt
Business-related phone calls alllllllll day longgggggggggggggg.
Make art about a phone call, maybe where a phone call turns into a surprising exchange.
Sometimes the Prompt Is Good Company
Daily Prompt
The pups and I had all kinds of feathered company on our walk this morning. Put me in mind of one of my mama’s favorite poets, John Greenleaf Whittier:
from “What the Birds Said”
“The birds against the April wind
Flew northward, singing as they flew;
They sang, “The land we leave behind
Has swords for corn-blades, blood for dew.”
Make art about birds, about flying, about flight, about what the birds said.
Sometimes the Prompt Is a Choice
Daily Prompt
Make art about builders or destroyers, about choosing to be one or the other.
Monday Must Read: Kate Litterer, Ghosty Boo
Meet Kate Litterer, author of Ghosty Boo, just released from A-Minor Press. Kate received her MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Program for Poets and Writers. Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from Coconut, The Destroyer, Dusie, Finery, Forklift, Ohio, h_ngm_n, Ilk, inter|rupture, Jellyfish, La Vague, Mistress, NonBinary Review, Phantom Limb, Route Nine Literary Journal, Sixth Finch, Spoke Too Soon, Quaint, the anthology Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation, and the anthologyHysteria. She is pursuing a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she focuses on queer and feminist historiography, butch/femme experience, and archival research. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her two maine coon cats.
Kate’s Website: katelitterer.com
Buy Kate’s Book!
Ghosty Boo
https://www.createspace.com/5662024
Praise for Ghosty Boo!
“Ghosty Boo lives inside of a book by Kate Litterer who lives with “a hard job to hurt out of revolted love.” Poetry is always asking us what is it we’re willing to do, and when we take into our own private worlds what’s sincere and true, fierce and relentlessly unforgiving are we able to ever feel safe again? Ghosty Boo has an answer for that.” -Dara Wier, author ofYou Good Thing
Featured Excerpt in A-Minor Magazine
http://aminormagazine.com/2015/09/28/featured-excerpt-six-from-ghosty-boo/
Read More from Kate Online
http://quaintmagazine.com/issues/issue-four/from-ghosty-boo-kate-litterer/
http://ilkjournal.com/journal/issue-six/kate-litterer/
http://www.coconutpoetry.org/litterer18
http://www.barrelhousemag.com/once-we-posed-our-barbies-like-a-playboy-shoot-by-kate-litterer/
http://www.interrupture.com/archives/june_2013/kate_litterer/
http://phantombooks.net/kate-litterer-2/
Interview at Please Excuse This Poem
http://pleaseexcusethispoem.tumblr.com/post/97735057265/q-a-with-kate-litterer
Hear Kate Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij9FYcdF6Ag
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Seeds, and Play, and Rebirth!
Daily Prompt Catch-Up!
3/25/2016
My grandmother Miz Pearl always said to plant on Good Friday. I haven’t gotten the garden in yet, but I did put in some basil and some seed potatoes. Seeds of a new season.
Make art about seeds.
3/26/2016
Easter gathering with family, and my favorite part was watching my loving generous adult sons play with the baby cousins. Make art about love and gifts across the generations.
3/27/2016
Make art about your own resurrection.
Sometimes the Prompt Hurts So Much
Discrimination, df: treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit:
Make art about discrimination, about enduring discrimination, about surviving discrimination, about conquering discrimination, about eliminating discrimination.
Sometimes the Prompt Is How We Connect
Daily Prompt
Building the first issue of HeartWood 🙂 So excited to be part of bringing these beautiful words out into the world. Thinking about how art lets connect in ways unlike anything else, how it lets us reach across space, across time, across history, and commune with each other.
Communion defined: the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings, especially when the exchange is on a mental, emotional, or spiritual level.
Make art about communion. Or about art as communion.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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