"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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Sometimes the Prompt Is Good Company

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The pups and I had all kinds of feathered company on our walk this morning. Put me in mind of one of my mama’s favorite poets, John Greenleaf Whittier:

from “What the Birds Said”
“The birds against the April wind
   Flew northward, singing as they flew;
They sang, “The land we leave behind
   Has swords for corn-blades, blood for dew.”
Make art about birds, about flying, about flight, about what the birds said.
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2016 Prompts, animals, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, Gratitude, Love, Nature, One Love, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops

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Newest Publication! Thanks to the Editors of Birch Gang Review

Thrilled to be included and in such fine company at Birch Gang Review! Thanks and Love to the editors! Great publication! Check em out, y’all! 
 

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Art, Bless the Day, Call for Submissions, Creativity, Editing, Friday Call for Submissions, litmags, One Love, poetry, publishing, Writing

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Call For Submissions Love! GFT All Year Round!

GFT Press Call for Submissions

Submissions accepted year-round.

 GFT Press and GFT Presents: One in Four are seeking poetry, fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, visual art, and interviews for print and online publication. No submission fees! We’re working to benefit charity through our publication and hope that you will submit your best work! Whether it’s a journey through our priceless existence, a struggle to achieve personal contentment, a heart-wrenching brush with defeat, an intelligent observation on humanity, a deep desire for your voice to be heard, stirring inspiration, or just pure entertainment, we want it and will strive to share it.

GFT website: www.gftpress.com

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Sometimes the Prompt Is a Choice

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Make art about builders or destroyers, about choosing to be one or the other. 

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Love, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Seeds, and Play, and Rebirth!

Daily Prompt Catch-Up!

3/25/2016

My grandmother Miz Pearl always said to plant on Good Friday. I haven’t gotten the garden in yet, but I did put in some basil and some seed potatoes. Seeds of a new season.

Make art about seeds.

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3/26/2016

Easter gathering with family, and my favorite part was watching my loving generous adult sons play with the baby cousins. Make art about love and gifts across the generations.

3/27/2016

Make art about your own resurrection.

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, Gratitude, Love, One Love, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Sometimes the Prompt Hurts So Much

Discrimination, df:  treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit:

Make art about discrimination, about enduring discrimination, about surviving discrimination, about conquering discrimination, about eliminating discrimination.

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, freedom, Gratitude, Love, One Love, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Sometimes the Prompt Is How We Connect

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Building the first issue of HeartWood 🙂 So excited to be part of bringing these beautiful words out into the world. Thinking about how art lets connect in ways unlike anything else, how it lets us reach across space, across time, across history, and commune with each other.

Communion defined: the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings, especially when the exchange is on a mental, emotional, or spiritual level.

Make art about communion. Or about art as communion.

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Editing, Family, Gratitude, litmags, publishing, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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Sometimes the Day Needs Some Magic

Praying for Brussels, praying for us all.

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Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Dreams, Family, freedom, Gratitude, Love, Music, One Love, poetry

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Sometimes We Have To Follow the Prompt

 

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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” A. Einstein

Make art about intuition, about how intuition whispers, about listening to it, or about what happens if we don’t.

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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Dreams, Gratitude, Love, One Love, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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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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2016 Prompts, Art, Artists, Bless the Day, Creativity, Family, Gratitude, Love, One Love, poetry, Writing, Writing Coaching & Workshops, Writing Prompts

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