"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

The Courtship Of Winds

Submissions accepted year-round.

“It goes without saying that we are looking to publish the best work. For details regarding submissions and a sense of the editorial direction of The Courtship of Winds go towww.thecourtshipofwinds.org.

We are interested in publishing “unknowns,” as well as well-established writers. A writer who has published absolutely nothing will be read the same way as a prize-winning “name” writer. Work that does something not seen before or, more to the point, makes us see differently—call it avant-garde, experimental, or what you like—is always welcome.”

 

Daily Prompt

“I know I’ve loved you before.”~Melissa Etheridge

Make art about other lives, about remembering Love.

Daily Prompt
 
“After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things”~Wallace Stevens
 
Make art about the practicality of autumn.
 
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #wordsmatter
red forest

LateNightDailyPrompt

Spent the day workin on a meal planning/shopping/cooking tutorial for some of my students who struggle with making their food dollars stretch.

In 2014:

46.7 million people (14.8 percent) were in poverty.
15.5 million (21.1 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty.
4.6 million (10 percent) seniors 65 and older were in poverty.
The overall poverty rate according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure is 15.3 percent, as compared with the official poverty rate of 14.8 percent.[ii]
Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure, there are 48.4 million people living in poverty, nearly 2 million more than are represented by the official poverty measure (46.7 million).

48.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 32.8 million adults and 15.3 million children.

And this doesn’t even begin to touch the problems of global hunger.

Make art about literal, physical, hunger.

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Daily Prompt
 
Make art about protest, or art that IS protest.
 
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #protest #wordsmatter
elie wiesel on protest

Help Launch Plume Snake

Okay all my artist and art-loving friends!

I just donated to support this savvy and talented young artist, one of my amazing alums, Alex Odom in his efforts to support a whole network of other artists! Hear the good work from Alex himself!

PLUME SNAKE

“My name is Alex Odom, I’m a comic book creator and the president of Plume Snake.  I’ve been a freelance writer for over ten years—a comic book writer for three. Over those years, I’ve worked with a lot of different publishers and producers, and based on those experiences, I developed a template for how I want to be treated as a writer and an artist. So when I set out to build a comic book company, I made that template the core of the business plan. This isn’t just a new comic book company; it’s a new kind of comic book company, a better market for independent comic creators to distribute their work.

  • Our network of creators will be paid 60% of net profits!
  • Our creators retain ALL rights to their work!
  • Plume Snake is focused on creating a platform for people in all communities to tell the stories they are most passionate about!
  • Plume Snake is committed to keeping costs low to connect more fans with the work!

Become a Patron of the Comic Book Arts!

Plume Snake is dedicated to putting our comic book and graphic novel creators first; that’s why Plume Snake’s network of creators will receive 60% of net profits from membership sales, and retain the rights to their work. It’s my sincere hope that Plume Snake will become a vehicle for many creative people to have the freedom to earn a living doing the work they are most passionate about. Plume Snake has the potential to connect more people with a wide range of different perspectives and illustration styles.

Your contribution will help make that a reality!

No donation too small!

As artists, we have to take care of each other! Donate! Pass it on!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-launch-plume-snake#/

Monday Must Read! 

jennifer sweeneyThis week, meet Jennifer K. Sweeney, the author of three poetry collections: Little Spells, newly released from New Issues Press, How to Live on Bread and Music, which received the James Laughlin Award, the Perugia Press Prize and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, and Salt Memory. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission, a Hedgebrook residency, the Elinor Benedict Poetry Award from Passages North and two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg awards. Recent poems have appeared in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, American Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Linebreak, Mid-American Review, New American Writing, Pleiades, and Verse Daily.

Jennifer’s Website:

http://www.jenniferksweeney.com/

Get Jennifer’s Beautiful Books!

Little Spells

http://www.wmich.edu/newissues/titles/sweeney-littlespells.html


How to Live on Bread and Music

http://www.perugiapress.com/books/how-to-live-on-bread-and-music/

 

Read more of Jennifer’s work online!

Academy of American Poets

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jennifer-k-sweeney

The Noe Valley Voice

http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/2010/July-August/OVJS.htm

Connotation Press

http://www.connotationpress.com/featured-guest-editor/may-2010/427-jennifer-k-sweeney-poetry

Linebreak

https://linebreak.org/poems/the-somnambulist/

Hear Jennifer read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csxTf4xmK8k

Interviews

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/01/poet_jennifer_k_sweeney_discus.html

At Donna Vorreyer’s Fill in the Blanks

https://djvorreyer.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/fill-in-the-blanks-with-jennifer-k-sweeney/

http://tinderboxeditions.blogspot.com/2015/07/book-interview-little-spells-by.html

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

SubTerrain

Issue #73 (Spring) – Theme: “SECRETS”

Deadline: February 15, 2016 (postmarked—can also submit online via Submittable. See their website for more info).

Poetry, fiction, nonfiction exploring the idea of secrecy. Personal, corporate, governmental, military—secrecy is used to cement personal relationships, to guarantee state security, to harbour knowledge. Some consider secrecy one of the main sources of human conflict. “We intend to open the doors on the subTerrain confessional.”

For submission instructions, see Writer’s Guidelines: www.subterrain.ca

 

Daily Prompt
 
“And I have learned my lessons in darkness”-from a poem I just wrote.
 
Make art about darkness.
 
darkness

Daily Prompt 

“The dead have stories to tell the living. about relinquishing control, about the sweet sweet letting go….”–from a poem I just drafted. 🙂

Make art about the thinning of the veil, communing with the dead.

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