"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’s Right In Your Own Hands

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“I thought of happiness, how it is woven
Out of the silence in the empty house each day
And how it is not sudden and it is not given
But is creation itself like the growth of a tree….”~May Sarton
 
Make art about making your own happiness.
Happiness-Hands1

 

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Sometimes the Prompt Is A Tender Touch

Daily Prompt

Thinkin of all the loving care my nurse mama and sister gave their patients for decades.

Make art about nurses, about caretakers.

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american nurse

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Naming & Healing

12/5/2015

I haven’t put up a Christmas tree since 2011, the year both my husband and brother walked on to the next life. This year, I’m finally putting one up again, and covering it with crazy little angels I’ve been handmaking from clay and fabric for several weeks. I’m calling it my Healing Tree. Make art about healing.

12/6/2015

Quiet Sunday morning with my son.  Make art about quiet.

12/7/2015

“So many names, my mother, I’m never sure what to call you.”~Rudy Make art about names, about naming.

Itty Bitty Angel Tree

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Sometimes the Prompt Is Triumphant

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“Perfect Love casts out fear.”~John 4:18
 
Make art about the triumph of Love.
 
perfect love

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A Very Special Call For Submissions: HIV Here & Now Project

The HIV Here & Now Project uses poetry and flash prose to advocate for a world without HIV or AIDS.

#hivtest #hivtreat #hivprevent #nohivshame #nohivstigma

Please submit your work to the HIV Here & Now Project!

Details on submission guidelines, as well as suggested prompts, are below.

Please share widely!

Huge thanks and appreciation to Michael H. Broder for his tireless and necessary work with the HIV Here & Now Project!

Poetry and Nonfiction: Visit the website for more details.

Curator Michael Broder writes:

“I’m very proud of the variety of poets featured to date on HIV Here & Now Project and grateful to the 180 poets whose work has appeared on the site to date. If you are my friend and a poet, please join them. Write a poem for the site and send it to me via Facebook message, the HIV Here & Now website, or Submittable ( https://indolentbooks.submittable.com/submit)

A lot of my poet friends respond well to prompts.

Here are some to consider:

Write a poem in the voice of an HIV virion (virus)
Write a poem in the voice of a CD4 cell (T-cell) being attacked by an HIV virion
Write a poem about a time you had unprotected sex with a partner whose HIV status you did not know
Write a poem about a time you had sex, protected or unprotected, with someone you knew was HIV-positive and how his or her status affected the experience
Write a poem about someone you know who died of AIDS
Write a poem about someone you know who is HIV-positive
Write a poem in your own voice imagining you were just handed an HIV diagnosis
Write a poem in your own voice imagining your mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, cousin, niece, nephew, best friend, beloved teacher, cherished mentor just told you they were HIV-positive

Subscribe and support this project in any way you can, please!

Thanks!

HIV Here & Now Project

http://www.hivhereandnow.com/

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Sometimes the Prompt Has Wings

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“Angels affect us oft”~John Donne

I’m putting up my first Christmas tree since my husband and brother passed on in 2011. So, I’m a little obsessed right now with making angel ornaments.

Make art about angels.

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Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon! New Prompts! Because We’d Rather Be Makers Than Takers!

Just Say No!!!

Okay beautiful writer and artist people!!!!

Tis the month of that devious dubious insidious awful terrible consumerist debacle–Black Friday!

Last year, I just couldn’t stand it anymore, so I started a weekend writing challenge group on Facebook to do my own little bit to fight back against the ickiness of Black Friday shopping! Let’s write instead!

Here’s the FB group, now up to almost 300 people!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1512919158978356/

Join us to Celebrate the First Year Anniversary of this Crazy-Fight-the-Man-and-Capitalist-Lunacy Anti-Black-Friday-24 Hour Writing Marathon!

Mark your calendars! November 27, 2015 🙂 

There will be 24 new prompts! 

Write! Paint! Draw! Sing! Dance! Make art! Create rather than consume!

And no crazy crowds around to knock you down, tryin to rip that tiger-striped car cover or bullet juicer from your hands!!!

BECAUSE WE’D RATHER BE WRITING!

 

no black friday

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Sometimes the Prompt Has to Cook For a Bit

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❤ Makin Sweet Potato Pie with my daughter today.

Make art inspired by a family recipe.

‪sweet tater pie 2

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Sometimes the Prompt is in Your Own Hands

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“For she was the maker of the song she sang”~Wallace Stevens
 
Fighting fall depression, I make things to push back the dark, sewing painting, etc.
 
Make art about making, about being a maker.
 
#choosingjoy
sewing-hands

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Sometimes the Day is the Poem

If I could make days last forever

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