Daily Prompt
“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
Make art about solitude, about needing solitude, about the solace in solitude.
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Did you ever think that, maybe, a child’s imaginary playmate might actually be there?
Make art about an imaginary friend.
Woke up hearing someone singing this, a tenor so golden it surely came from heaven ❤
“You’ll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley. You can tell the sun in his jealous sky When we walked in fields of gold….”
Daily Prompt
“Today I’m building myself/from the bones/of flowers”~Mary Carroll-Hackett
Make art about the self as a seed, a growing thing requiring nurturing, a blossom.
(from a poem that originally appeared in Tar River Poetry, one that will be my book coming out this spring, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, forthcoming from FutureCycle Press).
Daily Prompt
I’m personally fighting with keeping my focus and motivation where they need to be. I keep hearing this quote from Infinite Jest:
“Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.” ~David Foster Wallace
Make art about detours, or being detoured, or being distracted, or fighting for focus.
This week meet Teow Lim Goh, the author of Islanders (Conundrum Press, 2016), a book of poems on the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station. Her writing has appeared in PANK, The Toast, Guernica, The Rumpus, Winter Tangerine Review, and Open Letters Monthly, among other publications. She also makes letterpress and art editions of poetry and other writings at her imprint Black Orchid Press. She lives in Denver.
Visit Teow’s Website: http://teowlimgoh.com/
Purchase Teow’s beautiful book! Islanders
Black Orchid Press Limited Edition! Teow’s work was the inaugural Black Orchid Press title, her work featured in a series of six letterpress postcards of poems. These were produced in a Limited Edition of 100, with all copies numbered and signed. Visit and purchase these Faraway Places.
More from Teow Online:
Selected Poems and Essays:
Three Poems at The Toast.
Split at Guernica Daily.
Flowers of Prison: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz at Open Letters Monthly.
The Stories that Bind Us at The Philadelphia Review of Books.
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
3 /4/2016
I have Complicated Grief-Related PTSD. Some days I’m okay. Some days I think I’m okay, then I’m just—not, not okay at all.
Make art about grief.
3/5/2016
The only way I have survived the extreme loss I’ve experienced in my life is by making a choice every day, sometimes every moment, to live not in grief, but in Gratitude.
Make art about Gratitude.
3/6/2016
Both my sons were home this weekend, and one of my greatest joys is to see them together as grown men, not just brothers, but friends. My best friend was my brother, and my oldest son once said, “How cool it is—to find your own best friend right in your family!”
Make art about siblings as friends.
Daily Prompt
The Virginia General Assembly this week put forth House Bill 516 that requires high school teachers to notify parents if they’re going to teach books that parents might find objectionable (sexual content mostly) and gives those parents the right to object and demand alternative materials be taught.
Make art about censorship.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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