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Sometimes the Prompt Takes You Far From Home

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“Never a prophet in your own land.”~Luke 4:24

Make art about a modern-day prophet. 

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Sometimes the Prompt Leaves Muddy Footprints

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Make art about a wet dog.

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Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Crazy :-)

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Another snow day here, and one of my pups is already feeling like she’s been inside too long 🙂

Make art about Cabin Fever.

cabin fever

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Sometimes the Prompt Is the Heart of It All

Valentine Prompt 🙂 from a favorite poem by a favorite poet ❤
 
“The heart shifts shape of its own accord—from bird to ax, from pinwheel
to budded branch”~Dorianne Laux
 
Make art about the heart.
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Friday Call For Submissions Love! EXPERIMEMENTOS

Call for Submissions: EXPERIMEMENTOS, Third Issue

Deadline: February 29, 2016

Formerly based in San Francisco, EXPERIMEMENTOS has relocated to Rochester, NY and is preparing its third issue. The primary focus is poetry, though short prose works, as well as pretty much any type of writing/art, are considered. We are attracted to experimentation, so give us your envelope pushers, your external boxers, your noodle scratchers.
For more information about our editing process (which is very different from most magazines!), please read the submission guidelines found here: www.experimementos.com/submissions/.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submit a poem, story, excerpt, essay, e-mail, chat log, whatever! Strong preference toward experimental works and/or a desire to obtain an experimental work through the editing process. Anything deemed not experimental or “good” enough may be edited. [see below]*. Artwork submissions will also be considered (and possibly edited).

Please limit submissions to 500 words, unless it’s REALLY REALLY REALLY good. There is not much space in this magazine and each page adds a headache. Submissions over 500 words are liable to being thrown out.

*By submitting, you agree to many things:

  • Your piece may be edited into an entirely different work, though you will receive credit as the primary author. [NOTE: no words will be added to your piece without your permission; they will only be subtracted and/or rearranged.]
  • EXPERIMEMENTOS acquires first serial rights. After publication, all rights revert to you, except in cases involving editing like the above, in which rights will be shared jointly by author and editor.
  • Your piece will be featured in print and on this website, in the form of an online magazine and possibly quotes in the SCRAPS section.

Submissions and questions go to here:
experimementos@gmail.com

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Sometimes the Prompt Is What You’re Seeking

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“Every sacred mission, every hunt for hidden relics, I was looking for you.”~Dianna Hardy
 
Make art about a relic.
 
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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Babies, and Tribes, and Space–Oh My!

Daily Prompt Catch-Up!

2/6/2016

Today’s my daughter’s first baby shower 🙂 celebrating the arrival soon of my first grandchild. Make art about babies.

baby feet

2/7/2016

Super Bowl Sunday 🙂 Make art about sports as tribal ritual.

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2/8/2016

News this morning about how soon we’ll be traveling to Mars. Make art about space travel 🙂 “Space” can be literal or metaphorical.

mars

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Monday Must Read! Hilary Rogers King; The Maid’s Car

bio picThis week meet Hilary Rogers King, author of The Maid’s Car. Hilary was born and raised in Virginia, lived in Atlanta for the last twenty years. In Atlanta, Hilary was active as a poet and playwright. She helped found The Atlanta Women’s Poetry Collective and Atlanta Women in Theatre, two groups created for women artists to connect and collaborate. Hilary’s poems have appeared in Blue Fifth Review, The Cortland Review, PANK, Gertrude,Vinyl Poetry and other fine publications. Hilary is also an accomplished playwright. In December 2015, Hilary moved with her family to the Bay Area of California for her husband’s job. She looks forward to discovering the poetry scene in Silicon Valley, or creating one.

Buy Hilary’s Book!

Her first book of poetry, The Maid’s Car was released last summer by Aldrich Press.

http://www.amazon.com/Maids-Car-Hilary-King/dp/0692498397/ref=sr_1_1

Visit Hilary’s website!

http://hilarykingwriter.com/

Hilary also blogs about podcasts at

www.hilaryhearssomething.com

Read more from Hilary online!

http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/53/king.php

http://vinylpoetry.com/volume-3/page-35/

https://postcardpoemsandprose.wordpress.com/2014/01/28/third-snow-atlanta-georgia-2011-by-hilary-king/

http://www.gravelmag.com/hilary-king.html

Interview at Pank

http://pankmagazine.com/2011/04/26/ask-the-author-hilary-king/

Happy reading, y’all!

xo

Mary

 

 

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Sometimes The Prompt Dares You Like a Big Dog

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All mornin I keep hearing my teacher and friend Liam Rector 🙂 I called him Big Dog 🙂 say “What’s the next thing, girl?”
 
Make art about the next thing.
liam

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Sometimes The Prompt Is The Cure

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“The only cure I know is a good ceremony”~Leslie Marmon SIlko

Make art about ceremony.

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