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Archive for March, 2017
Daily Prompt Love <3 Yes and No
14 March 2017
“One person saying Yes Yes and another person saying No No, that’s tension.”-Betsy Cox
Make a list of all the things you’d like to say No to, then make a list of everything you’d like to say Yes to. Make art inspired from these lists.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Judge Not
13 March 2017
I unfriended someone this morning on social media, a woman who leads with her “I’m a Christian” banner, but who daily and consistently posts things that are disparaging to others, about people and groups of people with whom I know personally she has little actual experience. She’s older, and has limited life experience, so I had alternately either ignored her ignorance or had tried, gently, to share my own experiences with the people she judged. Her fear, it seems, runs too deep. But this morning, as she posted multiple things mocking and denigrating millennials, I was just done.
Am I judging her? Maybe. I’ll think on that. Pray on it too. But for now, her persistent fear and judgment of people about whom she is ignorant are not something I want in my life every day.
Make art about judging, about judging through ignorance, or–be brave!–educate yourself on someone you have previously judged.
Monday Must Read: Joel Peckham, God’s Bicycle
Joel Peckham is a scholar, essayist and poet who has published a book of essays, two books of poetry, and two chapbooks His work has appeared in many literary and academic journals including The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, The Black Warrior Review, Riverteeth, The North American Review and American Literature Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Regional Literature and Creative Writing at Marshall University.
“A Chevy up on blocks is only an eyesore
to the faithless.”-from “Husks”
In GOD’S BICYCLE, Joel Peckham’s fifth collection of poetry, he offers a spiritual road mix for 21st-century America. In poems that travel from the heartland through Appalachia to New England, he sings a song crafted from his own strange brew of off-kilter, irreverent psalms, prayers, hymns, aubades, and elegies in praise and homage to a fragmented but beautiful landscape and people. Drawing as much from rockabilly as Whitman, these poems are always intense and often exuberant, even in their struggle for the kind of hope that can “rise green and leafy from a bitter soil.”
Buy Joel’s Beautiful Books
Joel on Youtube
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt Love <3 Getting Lost, and Finding Home
11 March 2017
Spent the day lost in a book.
Make art about being lost in a good way.
12 March 2017
Dreamt a future conversation with my grandson, where we talked about what it meant to create home wherever you are, that our true home is what we carry inside us, from our experiences, from the ancestors. He nodded solemnly, as if he already knew this.
Make art about where home is, or how we create home.
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Two Today: Wildness, & A Call for Political Poetry
WILDNESS: Call for Submissions
Submissions accepted year-round.
WILDNESS is an online literary journal that seeks to promote contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that evokes the unknown. Founded in 2015, each thoughtfully compiled issue strives to unearth the works of both established and up-and-coming writers. For submission guidelines visitreadwildness.com/submitor email submissions@readwildness.com.
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Apalachee Review: Call for Political Poetry
Deadline: April 15, 2017
The Apalachee Review is currently seeking poetry submissions for our 67th issue. Alongside regular submissions, we are seeking poems for a special political poetry section. We’re looking for dynamic pieces regarding democracy, identity, politics, social justice, and other areas of political concern. Please send 3-6 poems with an SASE to Apalachee Review, Special Political Poetry Section, PO Box 10469, Tallahassee, FL 32302. For further submission details, please check our website: apalacheereview.org.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Hello From the Other Side
10 March 2017
Make art about messages from the other side.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Two Today <3 On Power, and Violence
8 March 2017
Make art about collective power.
9 March 2017
Make art about the violence of poverty.
Daily Prompt Love <3 In Hiding
7 March 2017
Make about what you’re hiding, about what they’re hiding.
Daily Prompt Love <3 We Are the Other
6 March 2017
Make art about the Other, about Otherness, about being the Other, about fearing the Other, about discovering the Other.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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