1/10/2017
“…darkness is but a ghost of an idea, the least
remembered, most estranged prayer, and your fear
1/9/2017
My daddy was a sweet, gentle, and wildly imperfect man. But one thing that we all knew, without question, was how much he loved our mama. And lest we forget, periodically, he would sit down and write a letter to each of us kids, telling us how much, and all the reasons why. We all lived in the same town, for so many years, but these letters would arrive unexpectedly in the mail, missives of fierce and eternal Love.
Make art about an unexpected letter, or about fierce Love.
January 8, 2017
Make art inspired by the hands of the ancestors.
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“A 6,200-year-old indigo-blue fabric from Huaca, Peru has been found by a researcher, making it one of the oldest-known cotton textiles in the world and the oldest known textile decorated with indigo blue.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160914150426.htm
1/7/2017
White snow, black treeline. Make art that’s a study in contrasts.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
OUT OF MANY MAGAZINE
founded by writers at Vanderbilt University, is seeking fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. We are especially eager to read pieces with multi–cultural elements. Submission is free, and response times are low. We publish regularly online and quarterly in print.
For details, visit outofmanymag.com.
1/3/2017
Make art about kitchen utensils, about inheriting utensils, about replacing utensils.
1/4/2017
Make art about bones breaking, literal or as a metaphor.
1/5/2017
Make art inspired by an x-ray.
1/6/2017
Make art about restricted motion, limited movement.
12/18/2016
Re-envision a fable in a contemporary way, The Emperor Has No Clothes, for example.
12/19/2016
Remember that old game Telephone? Make are where a truth is twisted until it’s unrecognizable.
12/20/2016
Make art about travel planning.
12/21/2016
Make art about needles and pins.
12/22/2016
Make art digging a hole.
12/23/2016
Make art about bread baking.
12/24/2016
Make art about finishing something last minute.
12/25/2016
Make art what you see in a baby’s eyes.
Max 🙂 Photograph by J Hackett
12/26/2016
Make art about the last flicker of a candle.
12/27/2016
Make art inspired by what’s left over.
12/28/2016
Make art about cleaning up the debris.
12/29/2016
Make art about passive resistance.
12/30/2016
I’ve been working a lot lately with Archetypes, particularly the Maiden/Mother/Crone.
Pick an archetype and portray it in contemporary, unexpected circumstances.
12/31/2016
Make art inspired by the song stuck in your head.
1/1/2017
Make art about piecing things together.
1/ 2/ 2017
Make art about deliberately putting something on repeat.
Planning to use this in my Intro to Poetry class this spring.
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Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social JusticeOn April 20, 2010, nine Latino students chained themselves to the main doors of the Arizona State Capitol in an act of civil disobedience to protest Arizona’s SB 1070. Moved by the students’ actions, that same day Francisco X. Alarcón responded by writing a poem in Spanish and English titled “Para Los Nueve del Capitolio/ For the Capitol Nine,” which he dedicated to the students. The students replied to the poem with a collective online message. To share with the world what was taking place, Alarcón then created a Facebook page called “Poets Responding to SB 1070” and posted the poem, launching a powerful and dynamic forum for social justice.
Since then, more than three thousand original contributions by poets and artists from around the globe have been posted to the page. Poetry of Resistance offers a selection of these works, addressing a wide variety of themes, including racial profiling, xenophobia, cultural misunderstanding, violence against refugees, shared identity, and much more. Contributors include distinguished poets such as Francisco Aragón, Devreaux Baker, Sarah Browning, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Susan Deer Cloud, Sharon Dubiago, Martín Espada, Genny Lim, Pam Uschuk, and Alma Luz Villanueva.
Bringing together more than eighty writers, the anthology powerfully articulates the need for change and the primacy of basic human rights. Each poem shows the heartfelt dedication these writers and artists have to justice in a world that has become larger than borders. Poetry of Resistance is a poetic call for tolerance, reflection, reconciliation, and healing.
Praise for Poetry of Resistance
Poetry of Resistance is a timely response (via verse) to the current political climate of Arizona, though what the book ultimately argues is that these injustices have always been taking place—SB 1070 is simply its most recent manifestation. —Rigoberto González, author of Our Lady of
Alarcón and co-editor the eco-poet and activist Odilia Galván Rodríguez selected the strongest work from the hundreds of entries to shape this anthology whose communal message—a plea for social change—will remain timeless and resonant.–NBC News
Buy Poetry of Resistance here!
17 December 2016
One of my undergrad degrees is in Anthropology, and the gift of that, the ability to view ‘us’ through the detailed and complex lens I learned from my amazing professors in that field still, every day, shapes the way I move through the world.
I first discovered Anthropology in the library as a child, those trips we made to get books every weekend with my mama, and one of the things I first loved about the anthropology books I found was that, in those books, I found women–not as subjects (although that fascinated me too)–but as the authors, as the experts: Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Jane Goodall. They were who I imagined myself to be as I “excavated’ arrrowheads and shark teeth from the plowed up tobacco field beside the trailer park where I lived as a child.
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“It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.”
―Jane Goodall, British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace
“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”~Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist and author
“I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself, and one for the world.”~ Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist and folklorist
Make art inspired by anthropology, by an anthropological discovery.
in·tu·i·tion
ˌint(y)o͞oˈiSH(ə)n/
noun
1 the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.
“we shall allow our intuition to guide us”
2 a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning.
“your insights and intuitions as a native speaker are positively sought”
Make art about intuition, about using intuition, about what is revealed or understood intuitively.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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