10/22/2015
“I want to remember us this way—late September sun streaming through
the window, bread loaves and golden bunches of grapes on the table, spoonfuls of hot soup rising to our lips, filling us with what endures.”~Peter Pereira
Make art about sustenance.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂
10/15/2015
I have one dog who thinks she’s Houdini, constantly coming up with magic ways to get out of my fenced yard. Make art about escape.
10/16/2015
“The sky hangs up its starry pictures: a swan, a crab, a horse”~Barbara Crooker Make art inspired by constellations.
10/17/2015
I’m conducting a workshop this weekend on Writing Prayer. Write your own prayer, or chant, or gratitude letter. Make art that is prayer.
10/18/2015
Nighttime & Dreams Daily Prompt
Last night I dreamt my beautiful friend Beth and I were escorting a huge group–hundreds–of people on some kind of trek to safety through a beautiful wild desert-like landscape. Beth walked in the front of the long long line of people, and I covered the back, making sure we lost no one. I carried a small child, a little boy with outrageously blue eyes, on my hip, We had planned for years for the time when we would have to do this, and so we knew what we had to do to get them where we were taking them safely. It felt good and strong and somehow celebratory, despite knowing it was a rescue and there was so much that had to be done. I was very glad to have Beth there with me.
Make art about rescue.
10/19/2015
First frost of the fall 🙂 My cold frames are keeping the winter garden safe. Make art about protecting something from the cold.
10/20/2015
Today included seriously the most amazing nap 🙂 Make art about naps.
10/21/2015
Thinkin on Call & Response. Call and response is a form of “spontaneous verbal non-verbal interaction between speaker and listener in which all of the statements (‘calls’) are punctuated by expressions (‘responses’) from the listener.” Make art using a call & response exchange.
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Susan Lewis, the author of six chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections, This Visit (BlazeVOX [books], 2015), and How to be Another (Červená Barva Press, 2014). Her poetry and flash fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize several times and published in such journals as The Awl, Berkeley Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Cimarron Review, Connotation Press, EOAGH, Fact-Simile, Fourteen Hills, Gargoyle, The Journal, Luna Luna, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Ping Pong, Pool, Prelude, Propeller, Raritan, Seneca Review, So To Speak, Verse Daily, Word For/Word and Yew. She lives in New York City and edits Posit (www.positjournal.com).
Get Susan’s most recent books here:
http://www.spdbooks.org/Search/Default.aspx?AuthorName=Susan+Lewis
Read more from Susan online:
http://www.susanlewis.net/poetry-online/
Read reviews, interviews, blurbs, etc.:
10/14/2015
Daily Prompt
My youngest son, Dean, has a birthday today 🙂 Twenty-one years ago, my greatest teacher was born 🙂 He arrived earlier than expected, a laid back observer of the universe even as he rested swaddled in my arms 🙂 I am so awed by the man he is, smart, funny, loving, with the courage to take on his own lessons, and his Baby Buddha ability to release what should be let go. 🙂 “Chill, Mom, It’s all gonna be okay.”
Make art about the teachers in your life
10/13/2015
Daily Prompt
Putting in the winter garden, prepping so I’ll have them wonderful leafy greens even when the snow comes.
Make art about the ways we prepare for winter.
10/12/2015
Daily Prompt
We don’t celebrate Columbus. Make art about history being written by the victors.
Monday Must Read!
Natasha Kochicheril Moni is a first-generation American of Dutch and Indian descent. Born in the North and raised in the South, she finds home in the Pacific Northwest. Natasha’s first full-length poetry collection, The Cardiologist’s Daughter, was released by Two Sylvias Press in late 2014. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews have been published in fifty journals including: Verse, DIAGRAM, [PANK], Hobart, Rattle, Indiana Review, and Fourteen Hills. In 2015, it was acknowledged on Straight Forward Press’s The Poetry Shopping List: Your Next Must Read.
She holds a BA in Child Development from Tufts University, received her Post-baccalaureate pre-medical certificate from Mills College, and is in her fourth year of naturopathic medical school at Bastyr University.
Website: http://www.natashamoni.com/
Natasha’s Poetry:
Toasted Cheese Literary Journal
Support your local WA State bookstores/poet by buying a copy of The Cardiologist’s Daughter at one of the following locations:
Washington State
Edmonds
Port Townsend
The Writers’Workshoppe/Imprint Books
Seattle
Elliott Bay Book Co.
Open Books
Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park)
Tacoma
Or purchase a paperback or Kindle version online through Amazon
Reviews of The Cardiologist’s Daughter:
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Middle of the semester craziness got me behind on updating prompts 🙂 But now we’re all caught up! And don’t forget to check the Writing Prompts page for tons more!
9/30/2015
Daily Prompt Things you miss: laughing together, the shared quiet of dawn, touching his skin. Make art about Love’s small gestures.
10/1/2015
Daily Prompt 😀 woke up late and so has procrastinated almost everything today 😀 Make art about putting things off 😀
10/2/2015
Daily Prompt “Once I had 1000 roses. Literally 1000 roses.”~John Ciardi Make art about abundance.
10/3/2015
Daily Prompt “They knew they were born to weep”~Pedro Pietri Make art about hard lives.
10/4/2015
Daily Prompt “Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers.”~Delmore Schwartz Make art about dogs. Or children. Or dogs and children.
10/5/2015
Daily Prompt Helping someone today start a new chapter of life. Make art about new beginnings.
10/6/2015
Daily Prompt “Choose to be kind.”~my mama Make art about kindness.
10/7/2015
Daily Prompt Working with my students on layers of meaning. Make art that is deliberately layered.
10/8/2015
Daily Prompt “I can hear her through the thin wall, singing”~Patrick Phillips Make art about singing in the distance.
10/9/2015
So many papers to finish grading, so much on the to-do list. Make art about feeling overwhelmed.
10/10/2015
Daily Prompt I practice BuyNothingChristmas, so the holiday work starts early smile emoticon So I’ll be spending the weekend startin to make handmade gifts. Make art where less is more.
10/11/2015
Daily Prompt “Three silent women at the kitchen table.”~Anne Carson Make art about the silence of women.
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