Daily Prompt Love <3 See Rightly
16 September 2019
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.”–The Little Prince
Make art about what the heart sees.
Archive for September, 2019
Daily Prompt Love <3 Retreat
13 September 2019
I’m headed off to lead a workshop at the fabulous Porches Writers Retreat this weekend ❤
Make art about seeking refuge, about retreat.
Daily Prompt Love <3 What's Revealed
12 September 2019
Make art about what’s revealed, what you see, in the patterns.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Through the Air
11 September 2019
Had the most amazing flying dream, soaring and swooping high above the most beautiful countryside.
Make art about flying, or a flying dream.
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 That Shift
10 September 2019
Make art about feeling that shift in the season.
Monday Must Read! Corn Exchange by Helen Vitoria
Helen Vitoria is an award winning poet and an artist living in Pennsylvania. Her poems and photographs appear widely online and in print. She is the author of nine poetry chapbooks, a poetry pamphlet, a full length poetry collection and a collaborative ekphrastic poetry/photography collection. Her poems have been nominated thrice for Best New Poets & several Pushcart Prizes.
Corn Exchange (Wild Chestnut Press. 2013), her first full length collection of poetry won the 2014 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) SILVER MEDAL for Poetry, the 2014 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Poetry, an Honorable Mention for the 2014 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Book Award, in addition to having placed as a finalist for the 2014 Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award & the 2014 Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal, and recently been nominated for the 2015 Tufts Discovery Award.
Cover photo : The Cornfield by Kathy Harcom , http://www.kathyharcom.com
Praise for Corn Exchange
“Invoking Anne Sexton’s brand of highly personal, confessional verse, Vitoria’s tragically intimate collection fearlessly attempts to reconcile ideas such as fear, suicide, family, commitment, pornography, memory, and experience through the binary elements of sight and touch. Vitoria shows a clear understanding of the safety existing in the eyes, in the act of seeing and observing, and in its inherent physical distance that the hands cannot and do not carry. Not until there exists a trust able to reconcile that physical distance and, as Vitoria explains, “spread the body, [using] thumb and palm and say: here, be happy.”– Hoffer Award judges had to say to the US Review of Books
Corn Exchange has been taught in MFA courses in Umbria, Italy, and her poem, We Were Horses, taught in various Creative Writing MFA classes throughout the US.
She is the Founding Editor & Editor in Chief of the award winning, Thrush Poetry Journal & Thrush Press. She also served as a Poetry Editor for Poets & Artists Magazine. She teaches a free monthly poetry workshop in her community and will be teaching poetry to inmates in Pennsylvania Corrections Facilities. She is working on her second full length collection of poetry, NEBRASKA. Visit her listing on Poets & Writers here.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Head Above Water
9 September 2019
Make art about staying afloat.
Image by Jasmin Sessler from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 Oh So Free
8 September 2019
Make art about what frees you, about what makes you feel most free.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Did You See That?
7 September 2019
Make art about having visions, about what came to you in a vision.
Image by Okan Caliskan from Pixabay
Reading Series for Virginia Womxn Writers! Call for Submissions!
Womxn at Red Door 104: Words & Art
A New Reading Series Celebrating Virginia Womxn, Womxn-Identifying, Genderfluid, Genderqueer, & Nonbinary-Identifying Writers
Womxn at Red Door 104: Words and Art, created to celebrate Virginia womxn writers, is a partnership between Creative Writing at Longwood University and Red Door 104, a unique gallery and art learning center owned and operated by the tireless and talented Audrey Sullivan, in historic downtown Farmville,Virginia.
The series will consist of two events annually:
- A reading and reception in April 2020, with two featured readers and five cameo readers.
- All selected readers will then also have the unique and exciting experience of having visual art created by central Virginia artists in response to their submitted work. This art will be revealed in a second event, an art opening at Red Door 104 the following October.
The first Womxn at Red Door 104 reading will take place from 2-4 pm on Saturday, April 4, 2020. The art opening will take place in October 2020, date tba.
Selected writers must be available to read in person, and should be willing to attend both events.
Believing that artists should be compensated when possible, we will award all selected readers a small token honorarium.
Please submit writing samples, as detailed below, along with a 50-75 word bio, via Submittable. Please include in your bio your current Virginia city of residence.
Submissions are limited to current Virginia residents.
Send us your best! We’re looking for work that is visually rich, and that will make for a compelling live reading.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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