"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 Rips Us Up By the Roots

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Virginia devastated by multiple tornadoes yesterday. Even growing up near the coast of NC, where hurricanes and tornadoes happened all the time, I’ve not seen destruction like some of what happened here yesterday. Praying for everyone hurt by the storms. Make art about the power of nature. 

tornado

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Sometimes the Prompt Sees You Through

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Make art about the preciousness of sight.

glasses

 

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What Makes Our Writing Community So Beautiful! MockingHeart Review

Thanks and Love to that angel Clare L. Martin for helping to celebrate Trailer Park Oracle over at her beautiful journal MockingHeart Review!

Generosity and sacred hearts like Clare’s are what make our community of writers such a blessing ❤

I tell my students, “Community doesn’t just happen. We have to take care of each other.”

If you haven’t yet, please visit and support MockingHeart Review!

Spread the Love, y’all! ❤

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Art, Artists, Bless the Day, book tour, Books, Creativity, Family, Gratitude, Love, One Love, publishing, Writing

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Sometimes the Day IS the Poem

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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 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.

hands candle

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Special Sunday Thinking About DNA Call For Submissions

I’m thinking about genetic memory and cultural memory and the line(s) we come from, so the name of this journal seemed somehow right LOL

Twisted Vine Literary Arts Journal is Looking for Submissions

Deadline: April 7, 2016

Twisted Vine is the literary journal for Western New Mexico University’s Masters of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies program. We are open for submissions for our spring issue. Our staff is looking for original and previously unpublished fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art. We have a special affinity for those works that succeed in crossing, overlapping, and transcending traditional genres.Twisted Vine strongly encourages submissions that are interdisciplinary in nature. Submission fee: None.

More Info:show.wnmu.edu/twistedvine/submissions/.

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Sometimes the Prompt Is Feminine and Divine

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Today’s gift has been conversation with my daughter, and missing my mama ❤
 
Make art about generations of women.
generations of women

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Sometimes The Prompt Is A Thing With Feathers

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Little Juncos, as if they’re floating, on top of the snow.

Make art about balancing on the surface.

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