Sometimes the Prompt Floats On the Fields
Daily Prompt
“…careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist …”~John Geddes
Make art with mist as the central metaphor.
Archive for March, 2016
Sometimes the Prompt Shifts and Flows
Daily Prompt
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein
Make art with deliberate shifts in time.
Monday Must Read! Callista Buchen: The Bloody Planet
Monday Must Read! Callista Buchen: The Bloody Planet
Photo Credit: Megan Kearney
This week meet Callista Buchen, author of poetry chapbooks The Bloody Planet (Black Lawrence Press, October 2015) and Double-Mouthed (dancing girl press, April 2016). Callista earned an MA in literature from the University of Oregon, an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University, and a PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Kansas. She is the winner of DIAGRAM‘s essay contest and the Langston Hughes award, with work appearing in Harpur Palate, Salt Hill, Cimarron Review, Fourteen Hills, Puerto del Sol, Salamander, Whiskey Island Review, and many other journals. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Franklin College in Indiana.
Get Callista’s beautiful book!
The Bloody Planet: http://www.blacklawrence.com/the-bloody-planet/
Visit Callista’s website and sample her new chapbook, Double-Mouthed, forthcoming from dancing girl press: http://callistabuchen.com/double-mouthed/
Read More from Callista online!
Diagram: http://thediagram.com/13_2/buchen.html
Thrush: http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/march-2012-callista-buchen.html
Kill Author: http://killauthor.com/issueten/callista-buchen/
Atticus Review: http://atticusreview.org/lost/
Blue Mesa Review: http://bluemesareview.org/issues/issue-26/bluebird-by-callista-buchen/
Alice Blue Review: http://www.alicebluereview.org/twentyfour/poetry/buchen.html
Arsenic Lobster: http://arseniclobster.magere.com/archive/issuethirtyone/310101.html
and in one of my favorite journals 🙂
A-Minor Magazine: http://aminormagazine.com/2012/05/21/on-mars/
Hear Callista read (With Amy Ash)
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Photo Credit: Megan Kearney
Sometimes the Prompt Leaves Us Alone
Daily Prompt
“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
Make art about solitude, about needing solitude, about the solace in solitude.
Sometimes the Prompt Keeps Us Company
Daily Prompt
Did you ever think that, maybe, a child’s imaginary playmate might actually be there?
Make art about an imaginary friend.
Sometimes the Day Is the Poem, and It’s Golden <3
Woke up hearing someone singing this, a tenor so golden it surely came from heaven ❤
“You’ll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley. You can tell the sun in his jealous sky When we walked in fields of gold….”
Sometimes the Prompt Rebuilds Us
Daily Prompt
“Today I’m building myself/from the bones/of flowers”~Mary Carroll-Hackett
Make art about the self as a seed, a growing thing requiring nurturing, a blossom.
(from a poem that originally appeared in Tar River Poetry, one that will be my book coming out this spring, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, forthcoming from FutureCycle Press).
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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