Daily Prompt Love <3 Faith v. Fear
9/30/2016
Make art about the struggle between faith and fear, or about faith overcoming fear.
Archive for September, 2016
Before I Hit the Road Call for Submissions Love <3 Otis Nebula
Otis Nebula Now Open to Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
Otis Nebula is now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, video, and hybrid forms. To get a sense of what we’re looking for, please read an issue, available for free online.
Website: http://www.otisnebula.com/otisnebula/Home.html
Submission details: www.otisnebula.com/otisnebula/contribute.html.
Daily Prompt Love <3 That One Breath
29 September 2016
Make art about that moment you just need to take a deep breath.
HeartWood Literary Magazine! Upcoming Issue & Call for Submissions!
Working on HeartWood 🙂
So honored to share this good work ❤ Thanks and Big Love to the editorial staff–Danielle Kelly, Susan Good, Beth Feagan,Mary Imo Stike, Jessica Spruill, CM Chapman, and Vincent James Trimboli, for all their beautiful hard work! And special thanks–as always–to my son J (Jacques Hackett) for being my on-call ever-patient tech guru ❤
The next issue of HeartWood goes live October 2nd!
AND
We’ll announce the very first winner and finalists for the
Daily Prompt <3 What the Stones Remember
9/28/2016
Dreamt I sat by a river, stacking stones, gray pebbles, that I built into a small curved wall, then dismantled, piece by piece, the stones smooth and slick in my hands.
Rocks act as the memory for our planet. By examining their elemental makeup and physical structure, scientists can understand the history of the earth. The fossil records left in rock formations literally describe our planet’s journey through time. Seen in this light, even the stones and pebbles we find in our backyards are pieces of the ancient past and the secrets of how we came to be in this vast universe.
Make art about what stones remember.
Daily Prompt :-)
9/27/2016
“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”~George Bernard Shaw
Make art about the political mess we’re in.
Daily Prompt! <3 "Dangerous Men"
9/26/2016
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”– T.E. Lawrence
Make art about dangerous dreamers.
Monday Must Read! Patricia Jabbeh Wesley: When the Wanderers Come Home
This week’s Must Read is Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author of When the Wanderers Come Home( 2016), Where the Road Turns (2010), The River Is Rising (2007), Crab Orchard Series in Poetry–winner Becoming Ebony (2003), and Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (1998),
Patricia was born in Monrovia, Liberia, and raised there and in her father’s home village of Tugbakeh, where she learned to speak Grebo in addition to English, the national language. In 1991, Wesley immigrated with her family to southern Michigan to escape the Liberian civil war. She earned a BA at the University of Liberia, an MS at Indiana University, and a PhD at Western Michigan University.Her poems have also been featured in former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry.”
Vulnerable in their combination of grief and levity, Wesley’s poems deal with family, community, and war. “What I try to do in my poetry is to show that the artist does not exist in isolation from his surroundings,” Wesley has stated in interviews.
Patricia teaches as an Associate Professor at Penn State University.
Visit Patricia’s Wesbites:
Author Website:
Poetry for Peace
http://poetryforpeace.wordpress.com
Buy Patricia’s Beautiful Books!
When the Wanderers Come Home
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/When-the-Wanderers-Come-Home,677245.aspx
Where the Road Turns
http://www.autumnhouse.org/product/where-the-road-turns-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/
The River Is Rising
Becoming Ebony
http://www.siupress.com/catalog/productinfo.aspx?id=104&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
Before the Palm Could Bloom
Read More from Patricia Online!
http://www.pjabbeh.com/faq-home.htm
http://www.pjabbeh.com/exile.html
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/54801
http://www.literaryorphans.org/playdb/two-poems-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/
http://homeslicemag.com/poetry-woman-patricia-jabbeh-wesley/
http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/19/wesley19.html
http://www.nathanielturner.com/patriciajabbehwesleytable.htm
Interviews
https://wpsu.psu.edu/tv/programs/conversations/patricia-jabbeh-wesley/
http://radio.wpsu.org/post/take-note-poet-patricia-jabbeh-wesley-surviving-liberian-civil-war
Hear Patricia Read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZeb8b4qVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmc9BPgH3UE
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3
9/20/2016
It’s my oldest son’s birthday today. I never could have know, twenty-eight years ago, that I wasn’t just having a baby: I was meeting one of my best ever friends.
Make art about adult children. Or about best friends.
With my oldest son J, early 1989
9/21/2016
Make art about lighting a candle for someone you Love.
9/22/2016
Been thinking all day about living in other times. I would have made a terrible Victorian woman 🙂
Make art imagining yourself in another time, another era.
9/23/2016
Love is a Verb.
Make art about Love in action in unexpected ways.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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