Thanks to Jill Khoury and all the good folks at Rogue Agent 🙂 Thrilled to be included in their anniversary issue!
Happy National Poetry Month!
Celebrating by posting a poem a day, anddddd, if I can, writing a poem a day 🙂
So today’s poem (one of my favorites!) is also our
Daily Prompt 🙂
Power, by Adrienne Rich
Living in the earth-depositis of our history
Today a backhoe divulged out of a crumbling flank of earth
one bottle amber perfect a hundred-year-old
cure for fever or melancholy a tonic
for living on this earth in the winters of this climate
Today I was reading about Marie Curie:
she must have known she suffered from radiation sickness
her body bombarded for years by the element
she had purified
It seems she denied to the end
the source of the cataracts on her eyes
the cracked and suppurating skin of her finger-ends
till she could no longer hold a test-tube or a pencil
She died a famous woman denying
her wounds
denying
her wounds came from the same source as her power
Make art about power.
HEARTWOOD BROADSIDE SERIES CONTEST
2016 Judge: Diane Gilliam
Contest submission window: April 1 – June 1, 2016
A writing practice requires us to slow down, reflect, attend. HeartWood Literary Magazine & West Virginia Wesleyan’s MFA Program seek to honor this practice with the launch of an annual broadside series and contest. Partnering with West Virginia artist Diane Radford of Dog and Pony Press, we will print the winning entry (poetry or flash prose) on a limited-edition letterpress broadside featuring an original image inspired by the text. The annual broadside will be an artifact companion the fall issue of the digital magazine. Both the handmade and the electronic HeartWood venues aim to showcase work that gets to the heart of the matter.
Contest Judge: DIANE GILLIAM is the author of four collections of poetry: Everything Ever, Everything After (forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2016), Kettle Bottom, One of Everything and Recipe for Blackberry Cake (chapbook). She has won a Pushcart Prize, the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing, and is the most recent recipient of the Gift of Freedom from A Room of Her Own Foundation.
$500 cash prize + 25 copies of limited-edition letterpress broadside will be awarded to the winner.
Detailed guidelines here: http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/contest/
Sometimes the Prompt Is a Heartbeat Away
March 31, 2016
Daily Prompt
Dreamt someone I love brought me a drum, and together we listened to its heartbeat. Make art about a drum, the sound of a drum, the drum as a call to prayer.
Sometimes the Prompt Has a Certain Ring To It
March 30, 2016
Daily Prompt
Business-related phone calls alllllllll day longgggggggggggggg.
Make art about a phone call, maybe where a phone call turns into a surprising exchange.
Sometimes the Prompt Is Good Company
March 29, 2016
Daily Prompt
The pups and I had all kinds of feathered company on our walk this morning. Put me in mind of one of my mama’s favorite poets, John Greenleaf Whittier:
from “What the Birds Said”
“The birds against the April wind
Flew northward, singing as they flew;
They sang, “The land we leave behind
Has swords for corn-blades, blood for dew.”
Make art about birds, about flying, about flight, about what the birds said.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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