"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

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Monday Must Read! Sam Rasnake: Cinéma Vérité

Monday Must Read! Sam Rasnake: Cinéma Vérité

sam rasnakeThis week meet Sam Rasnake. Sam’s works, receiving five nominations for the Pushcart Prize, have appeared in OCHO, Wigleaf, Big Muddy,Literal Latté, Poem, Pebble Lake Review, Poets/Artists, New World Writing, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Santa Fe Literary Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, as well as the anthologies MiPOesias Companion 2012, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Best of the Web 2009, LUMMOX 2012, Flash Fiction Fridays, BOXCAR Poetry Review Anthology 2, Deep River Apartments, The Lost Children, and Dogzplot Flash Fiction 2011.

He is the author of Necessary Motions (Sow’s Ear Press, 1998), Religions of the Blood (Pudding House Press, 1998), Lessons in Morphology (GOSS183, 2010) and Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press, 2010). His latest poetry collection is Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press 2013). His latest poetry collection is Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press 2013).

He is chapbook editor for Sow’s Ear Poetry Review and has served as a judge for the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, University of California, Berkeley, and from 2001-2010 was editor of Blue Fifth Review. Since 2011, Rasnake has edited, with Michelle Elvy, the Blue Five Notebook Series from BFR.

Sam’s website: https://samofthetenthousandthings.wordpress.com/

Get Sam’s beautiful books!

Cinéma Vérité

(from fabulous A-Minor Press!):  https://www.createspace.com/4377102

Inside a Broken Clock: 

`https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=660

 

Read more of Sam’s work online:

http://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/1129-sam-rasnake-poetry

http://www.fwrictionreview.com/post/28048617961/three-poems-by-sam-rasnake

http://www.coriummagazine.com/?page_id=179

http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com/2013/06/some-last-things-by-sam-rasnake-so-many.html

 

Hear Sam Read his beautiful work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSOx7D62-NA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrBm91nmX6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjoGRro_1VQ

 

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

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Sometimes the Prompt Catches You Unaware

9/13/2015 Woke up hearing the heavens singing 🙂 Had to share ❤

Daily Prompt

“I heard an Angel singing/ When the day was springing/ Mercy Pity Peace…”~William Blake

Make art about everyday angels.

angel street 2

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Sometimes the Prompt Cuts Deeply

9/12/2015

Daily Prompt

Cutting out a new skirt this morning. Love to see it emerge from the fabric, the art of cutting away. Make art about this emergence from cutting away;

or reenvision one of these old adages, making us see it in some new way:

cut out, cut off, cut bait, cut the cord, cut loose, cut to the chase, a cut above, cut and dried, cut a rug, cut and paste, unkindest cut, cut to the bone, cut and run, cut from the same cloth,cuts both ways.

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! Gravel Lit Mag Wants You to Shake Them Up

 

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

 

Gravel Literary Magazine

 

Send Your Unforgettable Work

Online submissions accepted July-May.

Gravel is accepting submissions of comics, graphics, art, photography, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. We are publishing book reviews of newly released or forthcoming books.We are also interested in author interviews. Please don’t send us previously published work. We want work that will shake us up a bit. Work that will make us question our personal beliefs. Work that three days later will make us laugh once again. Submit here: gravel.submittable.com/submit.

 

About

This magazine is produced by the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Monticello editorial staff.

 

Guidelines:

We are presently accepting original, unpublished works (including posting it on any website blog, deviant art, anywhere it can be found on the web). In particular, we are interested in fiction and creative nonfiction anywhere from 25 to 2,500 words in length, poetry (no more than 3 poems per submission, and you can submit all of them at the same time on Submittable), photo essays, artwork, comics, video, hybrid—look, we’ve got eclectic tastes here. Don’t be afraid to submit works that defy form or genre. We cannot pay you, but if it makes you feel better, we’re not getting paid either.

If your work is accepted, we will request an image that represents you (you can interpret this however you’d like) to be included with your bio.

Please keep your images below 5 MB for bios and art submissions. If for some odd reason we need a larger image, we will contact you.

We do not reprint work published elsewhere, in any form, this includes work that has been published in print magazines, blogs, or anywhere online. It’s disheartening to publish something, then realize that it is posted somewhere else.

Please do not submit new work until after you hear from us regarding your first submission. If your work is accepted for publication, please wait 6 months before submitting again. We like to showcase as many writers and artists as possible.

We do not accept submissions from current UAM MFA students.

We don’t charge our readers a fee to submit, but we get charged after we have 300 submissions. It helps us if writers submit their submissions all at once, not separately, because that can increase our operations costs.

 

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Sometimes the Prompt Tastes Like Rain

9/10/2015

Daily Prompt

“The taste of every living thing is in the raindrop”~Afaa Michael Weaver

Make art about the taste of weather.

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Sometimes the Memory Is the Poem <3

Woke up hearing someone sing this ❤ “Let the light guide your way. Hold every memory as you go.” ❤

Needed reminder that bodies may end, but Love never does. ❤

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Salvage, Reconstruct, and Dreams of Lace

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up 😀 Soooo busy around here lately! LOL

9/4/2015

Lots of thinkin this week about salvage. “The wreck is a fact…The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work.”~Kay Ryan Make art about salvage, or salvaging something.

 

9/5/2015

“Sink, suffer, self-destruct. Rise stronger, reconstruct”~Lamb of God Make art about reconstruction, about reconstructing from what’s left.

 

9/6/2015

Someone I love is battling cancer. Make art about illnesss or disease.

 

9/7/2015

Dreamt someone I love brought me yards of unbleached cotton and lace. Make art with flowing white fabric, or lace, or lacing as the central metaphor.

 

 

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Sometimes the Prompt is the Key :-)

9/1/2015

Dreamt someone I love gave me a ring full of keys and I gleefully skipped around unlocking and throwing open doors. 🙂

Make art about keys, about finding the key. keys

 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Big Family Weekend :-)

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂

8/29/2015

All my kids coming home for a visit 🙂 Make art about visitors.

 

8/30/2015

You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.” ~Diane Samuels Make art about children, young or adult, or about parenting.

 

8/31/2015

I’m fixin to go on a sewin binge 🙂 The first known sewing needle came from southwestern France and dates to about 25,000 years ago. When I sew, I feel an endless procession of women surround me, as I, in my small way, add to the story. Make art about sewing, or needlework, or stitching something together.

ice-age sewing needles

A set of bone needles from the Cave of Courbet in the Aveyron Valley, near Toulouse, France. Believed to be over 13,000 years old.

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Friday Call for Submissions Love! 3Elements: Mania, Tower, Exposure.

 

Friday Call for Submissions Love!

3Elements Literary Review

Deadline: October 31, 2015

 Call for Submissions

3Elements Literary Review seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography for Winter/January issue.

Each quarter, three elements/words are given that must be incorporated into your story or poem. The rest of the story is completely up to you. If you choose to submit art or photography, only one element is needed.

Current elements are: Mania, Tower, Exposure.

About

“We appreciate good writing in any gWe appreciate good writing in any genre. We especially like edgy writing that offers insight into darkness. We prefer character-driven stories as opposed to plot-driven ones. We relish a piece with a great deal of heart and more than a little bit of Truth (note the capital “T”).We want to read a story that makes us feel edified or philosophical or amused or creeped out or angry or melancholy or inspired or, best yet, all of these things together.enre. We especially like edgy writing that offers insight into darkness. We prefer character-driven stories as opposed to plot-driven ones. We relish a piece with a great deal of heart and more than a little bit of Truth (note the capital “T”).We want to read a story that makes us feel edified or philosophical or amused or creeped out or angry or melancholy or inspired or, best yet, all of these things together.

We want to read a story we simply can’t put down.We generally don’t enjoy science fiction, unless a particularly well-written story rises above the ordinary to engage the heart as well as the mind. We despise cliché. We find stories that include gratuitous violence distasteful. Sexism, racism, or other forms of intolerance are intolerable to us. That said, you can certainly reveal a character through his/her prejudices; just don’t use a story to perpetuate negative stereotypes or ignorance. The world is already bursting with both.c

And now, the important stuff:

The three elements for the current submission period are: Mania, Tower, Exposure.

As you might have guessed, 3Elements Review  is a themed literary journal, hence the three elements, and all THREE elements (the specific words, Mania, Tower, Exposure—art/photography excluded) given for the submission period must be included in your story or poem for your work to be considered for publication in 3Elements Review; NO EXCEPTIONS WHATSOEVER. Synonyms of the elements will not be accepted.

For more information, and to review our submission guidelines, visit www.3elementsReview.com/winter-submissions. All work must be submitted through website.

 

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