Daily Prompt Love <3 Mapping It All Out
4 November 2016
I love my GPS, but I also love my old school Atlas Map. Make art about maps, mapping, or going off the map.
Archive for the ‘Dreams’ Category
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Finally! 24 New Creativity-Inspiring Prompts!
And hopefully I’m back on track with these 🙂 ❤ Love y’all!
10/10/2016
Make art about buried treasure.
10/11/2016
Make art about working toward a goal.
10/12/2016
Make art about the sound of walking.
10/13/2016
Make art about frailty.
10/14/2016
Make art about a youngest child, that last child.
10/15/2016
Make art about what’s revealed in the moonlight.
10/16/2016
Make art about birds on a wire.
10/17/2016
Make art about going back in time.
10/18/2016
Make art about leaving an inheritance, or receiving one, on what’s inherited.
10/19/2016
My mama used to quote the Bible, saying, “Never a prophet in your own land.” Make art inspired by this quote.
10/20/2016
Make art about transitions.
10/21/2016
I really want to take a ceramics class. Make art about what you want to learn.
10/22/2016
Make art about excavation, literal or metaphorical.
10/23/2016
Canning apples for days. Make art about the fruits of autumn.
10/24/2016
Make art about every day angel encounters.
10/25/2016
Make art about the sacredness of water.
10/26/2016
Make art about making a trip home.
10/27/2016
Make art about what kind of road your heart would be.
10/28/2016
“When born, you inherit what’s burning.”~Liam Rector Make art inspired by this quote.
10/29/2016
Make art about night driving.
10/30/2016
A friend came across an old painting that looks just like me. Make art about doppelgangers.
10/31/2016
I set out food for the ancestors, cornmeal and milk for the wee folk, lit a fire and watched it burn. Make art about ancient traditions.
11/1/2016
Sometimes the sorrow is so deep, all I know to do is cook. Make art about process sorrow in an unexpected way.
11/2/2016
Make art consoling, receiving, or giving, consolation.
11/3/2016
Make art about feeling paralyzed.
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Reading at Longwood this week!
Okay my Virginia lovelies!
I’m thrilled to be part of the Longwood Authors’ Reading Series, this coming Wednesday!
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 8pm
Wygal Auditorium on Longwood’s campus
Reception (Free food!) to follow.
I’ll be reading from my newest book, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, as well as The Night I Heard Everything, both from FutureCycle Press.
And maybe…. we’ll have a lil contest and give away a couple free copies of the new book! 😉
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Daily Prompt Love <3 Dreaming of Pirates
10/8/2016
Been helping my son put together his costume for the Renaissance Faire. He’s reaching back to his roots in the coastal lowlands of eastern North Carolina, and going as a pirate this year, appropriate since he lived the earliest years of his life only twenty miles from where the infamous Edward Teach–Blackbeard–made his home in Bath, NC. In fact, archaeologists from my alma mater, East Carolina University, worked in conjunction with the NC Department of Cultural Resources, to raise Balckbard’s ship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, from those wild waters on my beloved Outer Banks. (ECU’s mascot is a Pirate 🙂 I am purple and gold forever! 🙂 )
All this work on his costume, plus, I think, the current political situation, probably led to the dream I had last night where I was pouring beer for ruffians in some steampunk version of an 18th century tavern.
Make art about pirates. Or inspired by the word ‘pirate.’
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Leaves, & Autumn, & Just Going From Here
10/1/2016
Walking in these West Virginia mountains 🙂
“The falling leaves, all over the forest, are protecting the roots of my plants. Only look at what is to be seen, and you will have garden enough, without deepening the soil in your yard. We have only to elevate our view a little to see the whole forest as a garden.” ~Thoreau
Make art about ‘garden enough.’
10/2/2016
Driving back from WV, I stopped for gas, and Road Angel Louise tells me her story of trying to recover from the recent flooding, what it’s like to lose so much. “Just go from here, I reckon,” she said.
Make art about rebounding from tragedy, about how we ‘just go from here.’
10/3/2016
Dreamt someone I love brought me apples, Honey Crisp and Red Delicious, Granny Smith and Winesap, even a couple of Arkansas Black. He sliced one with his sharp knife, and smiling, said, Here you go, Missy. A taste of what’s to come.
Make art about the taste of autumn. Or about what’s to come.
Monday Must Read! Pattiann Rogers: Holy Heathen Rhapsody
The most recent book from one of my always favorite poets, Pattiann Rogers.
Ms. Rogers has published eleven books of poetry; two book-length essay collections, The Dream of the Marsh Wren and The Grand Array; and A Covenant of Seasons, poems and monotypes, in collaboration with Joellyn Duesberry. She is the recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award for poetry. She lives in Colorado.
Read the title poem here in American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/holy-heathen-rhapsody
Buy Holy Heathen Rhapsody
https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Heathen-Rhapsody-Penguin-Poets/dp/0143123882
Praise for Holy Heathen Rhapsody
“I believe Pattiann Rogers walks the world at night when we are sleeping. Her poems are translations of our dreaming life—what we know to be true but fail to remember. We read her words, sentence by sentence, image by image, and return to all that is beautiful, mysterious, and erotic.”
—Terry Tempest Williams
“Pattiann Rogers is a visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed. Her language, unmarred by clichés, springs up out of a sense of how various and endlessly amazing are the forms of life and the human ability to notice them.”
—Denise Levertov
“How the densely detailed, thickly textured, imaged stanzas of Pattiann Rogers result in so much light-as-air wonderment is surely one of the greater questions—one of the greater magics—of contemporary poetry. But however it happens, we must be thankful—for both the science text and the psalter of her work, for both the physical abundance and for the spirit flimmering over it.”
—Albert Goldbarth
Read More from Ms. Rogers Online
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/pattiann-rogers#about
http://www.terrain.org/2014/poetry/two-poems-by-pattiann-rogers/
https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/pattiann-rogers-poem/
https://imagejournal.org/article/speak-rain/
Interviews
http://www.missourireview.com/anthology/interview-with-pattiann-rogers
http://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_pattiann_rogers?cmnt_all=1
Ms. Rogers on Merging Science and Poetry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicNcqk08Pk
http://www.cennamology.com/home/pattiann-rogers-review-merging-poetry-science-and-philosophy
Reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBelOceSMA
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Before I Hit the Road Call for Submissions Love <3 Otis Nebula
Otis Nebula Now Open to Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
Otis Nebula is now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, video, and hybrid forms. To get a sense of what we’re looking for, please read an issue, available for free online.
Website: http://www.otisnebula.com/otisnebula/Home.html
Submission details: www.otisnebula.com/otisnebula/contribute.html.
Daily Prompt <3 What the Stones Remember
9/28/2016
Dreamt I sat by a river, stacking stones, gray pebbles, that I built into a small curved wall, then dismantled, piece by piece, the stones smooth and slick in my hands.
Rocks act as the memory for our planet. By examining their elemental makeup and physical structure, scientists can understand the history of the earth. The fossil records left in rock formations literally describe our planet’s journey through time. Seen in this light, even the stones and pebbles we find in our backyards are pieces of the ancient past and the secrets of how we came to be in this vast universe.
Make art about what stones remember.
Daily Prompt! <3 "Dangerous Men"
9/26/2016
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”– T.E. Lawrence
Make art about dangerous dreamers.
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