19 August 2019
Make art about coming out of the cave.
Image by Christine Engelhardt from Pixabay
2 August 2019
“Sweet difficult passages/on your throats/there just there/caterpillar edging/ to moth” — Barbara Guest
Image by Johannes Plenio from Pixabay
27 July 2019
Down with a fever today. Ick.
Make art about fever dreams.
25 July 2019
“Jungle rain had no beginning or end; it grew like foliage from the sky, branching and arching to the earth, sometimes in solid thickets entangling the islands, and other times, in tendrils of blue mist curling out of coastal clouds. The jungle breathed an eternal green that fevered men.”-Leslie Marmon Silko
Make art using a jungle as the inspiration or central metaphor.
Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay
22 July 2019
Make art about a revelation, about what was revealed.
Feeling the need to share the title poem from my 2013 book, If We Could Know Our Bones–if we saw how much we’re alike, could we be kinder?
If We Could Know Our Bones
But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty.~Gospel of Thomas
If we could know our bones the way we know our skin, perhaps we’d not dig graves, but build rooms, havens, shrines, for even our enemies, their bodies rescued from the ditch and battlefield, no longer pitched into holes, safe and out of sight, but standing, eloquent and equal in their lines: tines of rib, cradle of skull, clavicle like a little key, memories of movement in femur and fluted tibia, their jaws, hinged and singing, angel light pouring through the basin of each pelvis. Free of water, fat and muscle, perhaps they’d claim us, tell us of sharing even what can’t be known–Os innominatum– those nameless bones.
-Mary Carroll-Hackett, 2013
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
28 June 2019
“Star Child, list where you may. That heart’a yours will show the way.” -John Little Bear Eaton
Make art about a star child, about the emotional intelligence of star children.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
“Like the refugee, poetry’s margin, its zero yield, its nothing, will have an essential role to play in what comes next. It is a “yes” to existence in the time of disaster, an affirmation of possibility when all else seems lost.”–Robert Fernandez
Make art about refugees.
28 May 2019
Dreamt of beautiful black bears last night. Make art about bears, about dreaming of bears, about what bears represent for you.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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