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Archive for October, 2016

Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Leaves, & Autumn, & Just Going From Here

10/1/2016

Walking in these West Virginia mountains 🙂

“The falling leaves, all over the forest, are protecting the roots of my plants. Only look at what is to be seen, and you will have garden enough, without deepening the soil in your yard. We have only to elevate our view a little to see the whole forest as a garden.” ~Thoreau

Make art about ‘garden enough.’

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10/2/2016

Driving back from WV, I stopped for gas, and Road Angel Louise tells me her story of trying to recover from the recent flooding, what it’s like to lose so much. “Just go from here, I reckon,” she said.

Make art about rebounding from tragedy, about how we ‘just go from here.’

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10/3/2016

Dreamt someone I love brought me apples, Honey Crisp and Red Delicious, Granny Smith and Winesap, even a couple of Arkansas Black. He sliced one with his sharp knife, and smiling, said, Here you go, Missy. A taste of what’s to come.

Make art about the taste of autumn. Or about what’s to come.

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Monday Must Read! Pattiann Rogers: Holy Heathen Rhapsody

The most recent book from one of my always favorite poets, Pattiann Rogers.

pattiannrogers_newbioimage_0Ms. Rogers has published eleven books of poetry; two book-length essay collections, The Dream of the Marsh Wren and The Grand Array; and A Covenant of Seasons, poems and monotypes, in collaboration with Joellyn Duesberry. She is the recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award for poetry. She lives in Colorado.

 

Read the title poem here in American Scientist

http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/holy-heathen-rhapsody

Buy Holy Heathen Rhapsody

https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Heathen-Rhapsody-Penguin-Poets/dp/0143123882

Praise for Holy Heathen Rhapsody

“I believe Pattiann Rogers walks the world at night when we are sleeping. Her poems are translations of our dreaming life—what we know to be true but fail to remember. We read her words, sentence by sentence, image by image, and return to all that is beautiful, mysterious, and erotic.”
—Terry Tempest Williams

“Pattiann Rogers is a visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed. Her language, unmarred by clichés, springs up out of a sense of how various and endlessly amazing are the forms of life and the human ability to notice them.”
—Denise Levertov

“How the densely detailed, thickly textured, imaged stanzas of Pattiann Rogers result in so much light-as-air wonderment is surely one of the greater questions—one of the greater magics—of contemporary poetry. But however it happens, we must be thankful—for both the science text and the psalter of her work, for both the physical abundance and for the spirit flimmering over it.”
—Albert Goldbarth

Read More from Ms. Rogers Online

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/pattiann-rogers#about

http://www.terrain.org/2014/poetry/two-poems-by-pattiann-rogers/

https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/pattiann-rogers-poem/

https://imagejournal.org/article/speak-rain/

Interviews

http://www.missourireview.com/anthology/interview-with-pattiann-rogers

http://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_pattiann_rogers?cmnt_all=1

Ms. Rogers on Merging Science and Poetry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicNcqk08Pk

http://www.cennamology.com/home/pattiann-rogers-review-merging-poetry-science-and-philosophy

Reading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBelOceSMA

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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HeartWood Issue 2 Released! Broadside Winner Announced! Congrats to Kory Wells! And thanks to Diane Gilliam and to all of the HeartWood staff!

Issue 2 of HeartWood is LIVE!
We’re especially thrilled to announce the winner and finalists for the first HeartWood Broadside Series Competition! Congratulations to Kory Wells, whose poem “With a Thousand-Tongued Hunger” was selected as winner by this year’s judge Diane Gilliam.
Check out Kory’s amazing piece here, with the stunning broadside created by artist Diane Radford with Dog & Pony Press, as well as all of the wonderful work we’re so honored to share ❤
Don’t forget! We’re already reading for our April 2017 issue!
Now, let’s get to the heart of the matter!
Issue 2 Here! 
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