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Daily Prompts All Caught Up! Git Some Beautiful Art On!

Middle of the semester craziness got me behind on updating prompts 🙂 But now we’re all caught up! And don’t forget to check the Writing Prompts page for tons more! 

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9/30/2015

Daily Prompt Things you miss: laughing together, the shared quiet of dawn, touching his skin. Make art about Love’s small gestures.

10/1/2015

Daily Prompt 😀 woke up late and so has procrastinated almost everything today 😀 Make art about putting things off 😀

10/2/2015

Daily Prompt “Once I had 1000 roses. Literally 1000 roses.”~John Ciardi Make art about abundance.

10/3/2015

Daily Prompt “They knew they were born to weep”~Pedro Pietri Make art about hard lives.

10/4/2015

Daily Prompt “Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers.”~Delmore Schwartz Make art about dogs. Or children. Or dogs and children.

10/5/2015

Daily Prompt Helping someone today start a new chapter of life.  Make art about new beginnings.

10/6/2015

Daily Prompt “Choose to be kind.”~my mama  Make art about kindness.

10/7/2015

Daily Prompt Working with my students on layers of meaning. Make art that is deliberately layered.

10/8/2015

Daily Prompt “I can hear her through the thin wall, singing”~Patrick Phillips Make art about singing in the distance.

10/9/2015

So many papers to finish grading, so much on the to-do list. Make art about feeling overwhelmed.

10/10/2015

Daily Prompt I practice BuyNothingChristmas, so the holiday work starts early smile emoticon So I’ll be spending the weekend startin to make handmade gifts.  Make art where less is more.

10/11/2015

Daily Prompt  “Three silent women at the kitchen table.”~Anne Carson  Make art about the silence of women.

 

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Sometimes the Prompt is Free

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I practice BuyNothingChristmas, so the holiday work starts early 🙂 So I’ll be spending the weekend startin to make handmade gifts.
 
Make art where less is more.
 
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Sometimes the Prompt is Kind

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“Choose to be kind.”~my mama
 
Make art about kindness.
 
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Sometimes What You Miss is the Prompt

9/30/2015

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Things you miss: laughing together, the shared quiet of dawn, touching his skin.

Make art about Love’s small gestures.

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Monday Must Read! Pam Uschuk, Crazy Love and Blood Flower

 

Monday Must Read! Pam Uschuk

pam publicity photoThis week meet Pam Uschuk. Political activist and wilderness advocate, Pam Uschuk has howled out six books of poems, including Crazy Love, winner of a 2010 American Book Award, and Wild In The Plaza Of Memory. A new collection of poems, Blood Flower, was released in February 2015.

Translated into more than dozen languages, Pam’s work appears in over three hundred journals and anthologies worldwide, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni Review, etc. Uschuk has been awarded the 2011 War Poetry Prize from WINNING WRITERS, 2010 New Millenium Poetry Prize, 2010 Best of the Web, the Struga International Poetry Prize (for a theme poem), the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, the King’s English Poetry Prize and prizes from Ascent, Iris, and Amnesty International.

Editor-In-Chief of Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts, Uschuk lives in Bayfield, Colorado. Uschuk is often a featured writer at the Prague Summer Programs, teaches occasional workshops for the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, and was the 2011 John C. Hodges Visiting Writer at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She’s working on a multi-genre book called The Book of Healers Healing: An Odyssey Through Ovarian Cancer.

Buy Pam’s Beautiful Books!

Blood Flower: http://wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=193

Crazy Love: http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=104

Wild in the Plaza of Memory: http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=141

More of Pam’s books here!

http://www.wingspress.com/author.cfm?author_ID=24

Read More from Pam online:

http://www.coloradopoetscenter.org/poets/uschuk_pamela/

http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/uschuk.html

http://www.terrain.org/poetry/24/uschuk.htm

Hear Pam Read: https://vimeo.com/74141138

Praise for Pam’s Work!

“Like Lorca, Uschuk is a poet of the duende, that mystical Spanish conception; she views the poem as a vehicle for fierce engagement with the body and its social realities, often with a metaphysical awareness that transcends and extends the corporeal into the natural world. Working a poetics rare for a North American writer, Uschuk has crafted a poetry equally steeped in nature and political resistance. This is an ecological poetics of engagement, a mythic poetry—part Lorca, part Rachel Carson.”–Sean Thomas Dougherty, RAIN TAXI, 2012

“American Book Award–winner Uschuk’s new collection of meditative, delectably powerful poems offers a steady and generous solace that serves as a platform for thought-provoking glimpses into spirit, family, and feeling. She has written of a tethered reality, commonplace secrets, and emotional rescue. And she is political. Among the more than 40 poems, “Red Menace” (“After all of these years / it’s clear what it was / those teachers couldn’t name— / not just the consonants but the roots, / the skin drums”) and “Black Swan” (“Grandfather, what purpose can you discern / now your entitled eyes are soil, / your heart going to anthracite?”) are standouts. In the same vein as her contemporaries Patricia Smith and Joy Harjo, Uschuk is strong in metaphor, urgent in language, and powerful in vivisection.” — Mark Eleveld

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9/25/2015

Road trip to visit with my daughter and son-in-law. Early early morning arrival. “What remains for us has always been what’s arriving”~Wayne Miller  Make art about arrival, about what’s arriving.

9/26/2015

Did a little bargaining at the farmer’s market. Haggling is an integral part of the shopping experience in many cultures, and should be considered a game, rather than a battle.  Make art about haggling or bargaining.

9/27/2015

Dreamt I was weaving a flower chain necklace for a child, whose bright laughter I heard from a distance.  Make art about laughter, the catharsis of laughter, the gift of mirth.

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You are the Poem, You are the Song <3

We’re One, but we’re not the same
We get to  Carry each other Carry each other ❤

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Sometimes the Equinox is the Prompt :-)

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Happy Autumnal Equinox ❤
 
Make art about balance.

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Sometimes the Prompt is for My Son’s Birthday

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9/20/2015
 
Made my son birthday breakfast 🙂 He turned 27 today, and is both one of my greatest teachers, and my dearest friend. Breakfast involved gravy 🙂 Of course, it did 🙂 We’re Southern ❤ 
 
The rest is gravy.Gravy train. Good gravy!
 
Make art about gravy. Yep. Gravy. 🙂
 
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Sometimes You Have to Let the Prompt Go

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“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.”~Kahlil Gibran

Make art about releasing control.

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