Daily Prompt Love <3 Comfort & Legacy
12 September 2017
Make art about leaving your comfort zone.
13 September 2017
Make art about what you want to leave behind.
Archive for the ‘Artists’ Category
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! 10 New Prompts!
2 September 2017
Make art about money, having money, or not having it.
3 September 2017
Make art poverty of the spirit.
4 September 2017
Make art about the origin of a lie.
5 September 2017
Make art about the sound of animal, a purring cat, a growling dog, the whistle of a songbird, the cry of a hawk.
6 September 2017
Make art about the storm coming.
7 September 2017
Make art about arrogance, an arrogant person, about dealing with arrogance.
8 September 2017
Make art about preparing to leave.
9 September 2017
Make art inspired by or about water words: aquaduct, bog, creek, drizzle, fjord…
More here: 100 Words for Water: http://www.wallacejnichols.org/234/623/100-words-for-water.html
10 September 2017
Make art about rescue, rescuing, being rescued.
11 September 2017
Make art about recovery, about what that recovery means to you.
Monday Must Read! The Long Weeping by Jessie Van Eerden
Jessie Van Eerden is the author of Glorybound (WordFarm, 2012), My Radio Radio (Vandalia Press 2016), and most recently, her collection of portrait essays,The Long Weeping, just released from Orison Books.
A West Virginia native, Jessie holds a BA in English from West Virginia University and an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in The Oxford American, River Teeth, Image, Bellingham Review, Willow Springs, Rock & Sling, Appalachian Heritage, Ruminate, and other publications. Her prose has been selected for inclusion in Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia(Vandalia Press); Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean (Ohio University Press); Red Holler (Sarabande); Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Rhetoric and Reader for Writers, Seventh Edition (Longman); Jesus Girls: True Tales of Growing Up Female and Evangelical (Cascade Books); and Best American Spiritual Writing (Houghton Mifflin).
Jessie has taught for over fifteen years in college classrooms and in adult literacy programs. She lives in West Virginia where she directs the low-residency MFA writing program of West Virginia Wesleyan College.
Follow Jessie on Twitter: @jessievaneerden. To see what Jessie has been reading, visit her Goodreads page. To learn more about WV Wesleyan’s MFA program (#wvwcmfa), visit the program website.
Visit Jessie’s website: http://www.jessievaneerden.com/
Buy Jessie’s beautiful books!
Praise for The Long Weeping
“In these startlingly honest and imaginative essays, van Eerden enlarges the world around her, giving flesh to what is all too often flattened by the outside eye, anointing places and people and the throbbing spaces between them as she searches out and sings litanies to what she calls the “larger body I belonged to and could not leave.” Lush and razor-sharp, The Long Weeping shimmers with intelligence and grace. The truest essays I’ve read in a long time.”
—Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread, Queen of the Fall, and Ladies Night at the Dreamland
“Van Eerden is one of the best essayists working today if judged by her craft and intellect alone, but her gifts go beyond those: she is also one of the most honest. The Long Weeping turns a visionary eye and a laser mind on subjects often simplified or even scorned by contemporary culture: white poverty; mysticism; love of family; the wisdom of modest people. Van Eerden is brave enough to say the hard things. She’s strong enough to love the hard places.”
—Ann Pancake, author of Given Ground, Strange as This Weather Has Been, and Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley
More from Jessie Online
http://www.jessievaneerden.com/short-fiction-creative-non-fiction/
https://imagejournal.org/artist/jessie-van-eerden/
http://appalachianheritage.net/2015/09/09/interview-jessie-van-eerden/
http://cheatriverreview.com/jessie-van-eerden/
http://memorious.org/?author=217
https://rockandsling.com/2011/03/30/an-interview-with-jessie-van-eerden/
https://web.tusculum.edu/tusculumreview/2014/05/14/jessie-van-eerden-2/
Hear Jessie Read
Happy Reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! 25 New Prompts!
8 August 2017
Make art about heat rising, literal or metaphorical.
9 August 2017
Make art about the smell of soil.
10 August 2017
Make art about what you see in an animal’s eyes.
11 August 2017
It’s my brother Bill’s birthday. He would have been 48.
Make art about brotherly love, about real acts of brotherly love.
12 August 2017
Make art leaning in, about what it means to you to lean in.
13 August 2017
Make art struggling to remember a dream.
14 August 2017
Make art about putting things away.
15 August 2017
Make art about struggling to stand.
16 August 2017
Make art about the sound of children singing.
17 August 2017
Make art about what you see in the sky.
18 August 2017
Make art about reaching for something.
19 August 2017
Make art about standing with strangers.
20 August 2017
Make art about a braggart who needs to be the center of attention.
21 August 2017
- eclipse (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French eclipse “eclipse, darkness” (12c.), from Latin eclipsis, from Greek ekleipsis “an eclipse; an abandonment,” literally “a failing, forsaking,” from ekleipein “to forsake a usual place, fail to appear, be eclipsed,” from ek “out” (see ex-) + leipein “to leave” (from PIE root *leikw- “to leave”).
Make art inspired by the old meanings of the word eclipse: an abandonment, a failing, a forsaking.
22 August 2017
Make art about a moment you were blind.
23 August 2017
Make art about placing that call you’ve dreaded making.
24 August 2017
Make art about bullets.
25 August 2017
Make art about an instance in which you countered hate with Love.
26 August 2017
Make art about the first signs of autumn coming.
27 August 2017
Make art about the art of the apology.
28 August 2017
Make art about cooking together.
29 August 2017
Make art about learning to cry.
30 August 2017
Make art about a secret you carry.
31 August 2017
Make art about what’s being whispered.
1 September 2017
Make art inspired by a gray silk sky.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Moon and Water
6 June 2017
Make art about what the moon says.
7 June 2017
Make art about what you see in the water.
Monday Must Read! Cat Pleska: Riding On Comets
Cat Pleska is a seventh generation West Virginian, and an amazingly loving and generous person. She is the author of Riding on Comets, and most recently, she published a cookbook with a sense of humor, One Foot in the Gravy–Hooked on the Sauce. Cat is a writer, editor, educator, publisher, and storyteller. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. She is an essayist for West Virginia Public Radio and a book reviewer for the Charleston Gazette. She coedited the anthology Fed from the Blade: Tales and Poems from the Mountains. Pleska has been published in literary magazines and newspapers throughout the Appalachian region. She lives in Scott Depot, West Virginia, with her husband, Dan, one dog, four cats, and with a daughter, Katie, in nearby St. Albans.
Buy Cat’s Books!
Praise for Riding on Comets
“The gifts of Cat Pleska’s Riding on Comets are many: it is fresh, candid, gently humorous, tautly lyrical, and deeply moving.”-Lisa Knopp, What the River Carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte
This is a storyteller who knows how to piece together shards of story into a brilliant mosaic of a life. A joy to read.”–Janice Gary is the author of Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance, winner of two Silver 2014 Nautilus Awards and a 2014 Eric Hoffer Prize for Memoir.
Cat Pleska’s restrained but graceful prose allows us to witness four generations through the eyes of the author, first as a child and then through the years that followed as her people live, age, and die. The details Pleska offers have the immediacy of truths well told, with a resolute eye and spacious heart, neither shying away from family and personal dysfunction, nor sentimentalizing the bonds of fear and love that held her family together.”–Geoffrey Cameron Fuller is an author of the true crime Pretty Little Killers and the crime thriller Full Bone Moon
One Foot in the Gravy–Hooked on the Sauce
More from Cat Online
http://www.friedchickenandcoffee.com/2016/04/27/reckoning-fiction-by-cat-pleska/
https://www.catpleska.com/interviews-reviews-blogs/
http://www.rednecromancer.typepad.com/mouth_of_the_holler/
https://pocahontastimes.com/memories-to-memoirs/
http://www.lauratreacybentley.com/apps/blog/entries/show/41683985-spotlight-cat-pleska
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Solidago, Seeking Tradition
Solidago Journal is open for submissions!
“We’re looking for prose, poetry, and art for our Fall 2017 issue. The theme is TRADITION, and our cover image (to which we also invite responses) can be found on our website (link below). We can’t pay our contributors, but all contributors will receive a complimentary copy of our print edition. No submission fee. We look forward to reading your work!”
Website: http://www.solidagojournal.com/
Submissions: http://www.solidagojournal.com/submissions/
Daily Prompt Love <3 Borders
4 August 2017
“The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.” ― Erin Hunter
Make art about borders, about living at the borders, about crossing borders, about the illusion of borders.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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