"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! Sarah Nichols: Edie (Whispering)

Monday Must Read!

sarah nichols monday must readThis week meet Sarah Nichols, a writer living in Connecticut. Her chapbook, Edie (Whispering): Poems from Grey Gardens, was recently published by dancing girl press. Her first book, The Country of No, was published in 2012 by Finishing Line Press. Her poem, “My Stepmother Responds to My Recovered Memory,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Thank You for Swallowing. Her poems have also appeared inYellow Chair Review, Found Poetry Review, Right Hand Pointing, and Porkbelly Press’s Emily Anthology (2015).

Links to Sarah’s beautiful books

Edie (Whispering)(dancing girl press): Edie (Whispering): Poems from Grey Gardens | Sarah Nichols

Country of No (Finishing Line Press) https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=971

Read Sarah’s work online

“My Stepmother Responds to My Recovered Memory,” thankyouforswallowing.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/my-stepmother-responds-to-my-recovered-memory

“Batman’s Wife,” Yellow Chair Review: Yellow Chair Review – Pop Culture Issue 2015  (Pg. 60)

“The Secret,” Found Poetry Review, Volume Eight:volumeeight.foundpoetryreview.com/855

“Smoke Horse,” in Right Hand Pointing: www.righthandpointing.net/#!sarah-nichols/ci1b

Interview with Sarah

http://www.nicolerollender.com/carpe-noctem-blog/chapbook-interview-with-sarah-nichols

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

 

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Sometimes The Day Is The Poem <3

“dreaming is believing” ❤

who you are is miraculous ❤  never forget that.

 

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Sometimes the Prompt Is Suddenly Revealing

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“The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.” ~Rebecca Solnit
Make art about an epiphany.
Epiphany image

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Sometimes The Prompt Stops You Cold

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“I fear and hope. I burn and freeze like ice.”~Sir Thomas Wyatt
 
Make art about the first freeze, about the big freeze, about freezing, or being frozen.
 
‪ice sculpture 2-1

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Sometimes The Prompt Just Begins To Fall

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“This, then, is the gift the world has given me/(you have given me)/softly the snow”~Diana Di Prima

Make art with first snow as the central metaphor.

snowflake

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Very Special Call for Submissions

Very Special Call for Submissions

HIV Here & Now

from publisher Michael H. Broder 

It’s that time again. The submission and solicitation wells are dry. The HIV Here & Now Project WEBSITE needs new work FAST (I have nothing for today, for example, let alone the next 152 days). NEW OR PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED poems or short (up to 500 words) prose pieces. By any poet regardless of HIV status. Preferably touching on HIV in some way shape or form, even if metaphorical. Our key advocacy themes are testing, treatment, prevention, dispelling shame, and eliminating stigma. You can really use any of those ideas as a way into a poem that never even mentions HIV or AIDS. Or just any pieces you think would work on the site. You’re a poet! Use your imagination!!

While I appreciate the dedication, please do not submit if your work has already appeared on the site; we are trying not to repeat poets or writers.

Send work to michael@indolentbooks.com. Include a face pic and a brief bio emphasizing your publications.

Previous HIV Here & Now Project poets and writers, please solicit one poet or writer directly, post this on your timelines and share with your groups and other social networks. (I’ll tag 20 of you each week.)
http://www.hivhereandnow.com

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Gratitude! A Couple of Publications to Start 2016 :-)

Thrilled and thankful to the editors for including my crazy lil prose poems in their beautiful publications ❤ 

Special Thanks to Clare L. Martin for being a consistent and beautiful light in this world!

MockingHeart Review

http://mockingheartreview.com/vol1issue1/mary-carroll-hackett/

and to the editors of

Milk Journal 

http://www.milkjournal.net/#!a-private-mythology—mary-carroll-hacke/duuv7

 

Check out and support these fine publications, y’all! 

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First Daily Prompt of 2016 :-) Sometimes the Prompt Takes Wing

Daily Prompt — First one for 2016! 

Woke to this hawk calling outside the bedroom window, then he followed me and the dogs on our walk.

Make art about hawks.

hawk 2

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My New Year’s Wish For You <3 My Hope For Us All

There is an old story of a bear who goes into her den to dream the world into being during the winter. She dreams of deer, and pine, of clear water, sweet berries, and buffalo. She creates the world anew, each being, entire ecosystems, during the course of each winter, with her dreams. When she emerges into the green of spring, trailed by her cubs, she celebrates and is celebrated by all the creatures of the earth.

Centuries ago Aristotle said, “The soul cannot think without pictures. The reasoning mind thinks in the form of images… As the mind determines the objects it should pursue or avoid in terms of these images, even in the absence of sensation, it is stimulated to action when occupied with them.”

More recently, Denis Watley, a noted psychologist, brought attention again to this idea through The Secret.

We too can dream our world into being.

Visualization is similar to daydreaming. In both processes you create mental images; the difference between visualization and daydreaming is intention. Daydreaming allows your mind to wander, but when you visualize and focus on something specific, you are putting intention, all your beautiful power as a sacred soul, behind it.

It is the intention that creates the energy that creates the attraction. The attraction starts the action that produces the manifestation.

Ancient cultures understood this well. The bear, with its ability to seemingly die in winter and remerge in spring with new life, has long symbolized transformation, and the transformative power of dreams. Understanding the bear’s gifts, we have looked to this creature as teacher and guide and healer. These connections held true for ancient cultures around the world – anywhere people and bears lived together.

My New Year’s wish for all of you is that you come to know how beautiful and sacred and powerful you truly are, how powerful your dreams, and that in this coming year, you dream your perfect spring into being, that we all do. May 2016, for everyone, be filled with peace, and joy, and Love–always always Love ❤

xo

Mary

bear dream

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The Last Daily Prompt of 2015 :-) Happy New Year, Y’all!

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“a child carrying flowers walks toward the new year”~Bei Dao
 
Make art envisioning the new year.
 
(The Flower Carrier by Diego Rivera)
flower carrier

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