"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

Archive for the ‘2016 Prompts’ Category

Sometimes the Prompt Gets By With a Little Help From Friends

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Great conversation thread yesterday started by the amazing poet and person Karen Craigo on Facebook regarding what we can do all to support poetry and other poets. Got me thinking about how my mama always quoted John Donne, his “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions,” saying “No man is an island.” 

Make art about community, abut community-building, about our need for community. 

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Spring Is Prompting All Over!

Two Prompts ‘Cause I’m Sooooo Happy Spring’s Here! 

Happy Spring Prompt 1

Dreamt last night I was playing with a little bitty baby bear We tussled and snuggled and giggled and romped. Make art about a baby’s capacity for joy. 🙂 Or about a bear. 🙂 

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Happy Spring Prompt 1

Make art with the first day of spring, about rebirth.

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Survivors and Rain

Daily Prompt Catch-Up!

3/18/2016

Make art about survivors.

stronger

3/19/2016

Make art inspired by a rainy Saturday.

rainy_days_by_ridiculousdream

Sometimes We Have to Lean Into the Prompt

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Make art about the difference between hearing and listening. 

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Sometimes the Day is the Poem

“So long now I been out in the rain and snow, but Winter’s come and gone, a little bird told me so….” 🙂 ❤ New beginnings, y’all. Letting go of what doesn’t work, moving forward to where Love is ❤

Sometimes You Have To Let the Prompt In

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Before my mama went on to the next life, she told me “You’ve got to LET someone love you, Mary, really Love you.” One of the lessons I’m still learning, both about myself, and about other people.

You can only love someone as much as they’ll let you.

Make art inspired by this.

broken heart

 

Great insights on this can be found here.

Sometimes the Prompt Floats On the Fields

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…careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist …”~John Geddes

Make art with mist as the central metaphor.

mist_in_the_woods_by_nitrok-d6reryo

Sometimes the Prompt Shifts and Flows

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“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein

Make art with deliberate shifts in time. 

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Sometimes the Prompt Is Just Out of Our Reach

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Make art about searching for something. 

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Sometimes the Prompt Leaves Us Alone

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“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.

solitude

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