"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

Archive for the ‘poetry’ Category

Daily Prompt Love <3 Follow These Steps

25 July 2017 

Make art inspired by or incorporating a set of instructions. 

Instructions

Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Titles, and Boundaries

23 July 2017

Make art using one of these titles: 

From the Stone Came

Listening to Fire

Salty and Wind and 

In Memory of Water

MMD4C2

24 July 2017 

Make art about boundaries, making them, breaking them, protecting them. 

do-not-cross

Monday Must Read! Al Maginnes, The Next Place

 

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAAl Maginnes is the author of seven full length collections and four chapbooks of poems, most recently The Next Place (Iris Press, 2017). He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina and teaches at Wake Technical Community College. His poems and reviews have appeared widely. He is music editor for Connotations Press and a member of Liberty Circus, a music and spoken word collective dedicated to raising money for those who work with immigrants and other forms of social justice.

Buy Al’s Beautiful Books

The Next Place

Film History

Music From Small Towns

Inventing Constellations

Ghost Alphabet

The Light in Our Houses

Taking Up Our Daily Tools

More from Al Online

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/al-maginnes

http://www.ashevillepoetryreview.com/tag/al-maginnes

http://baltimorereview.org/index.php/winter_2012/contributor/al-maginnes

http://www.poemoftheweek.org/al_maginnes_id594.html

http://www.terrain.org/2013/poetry/two-poems-by-al-maginnes/

http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2009/04/al-maginnes.html

https://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/1319-al-maginnes-poetry

Hear Al Read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMAFgZIr8YI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ogdXKsed8

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

Daily Prompt Love <3 Letting Someone In

22 July 2017

Make art inspired by this:

let someone love you

 

 

Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Blood Tree Literature

Blood Tree Literature
Blood Tree Literature is an up-and-coming online literary journal based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, currently looking for lyrical and resonant works of flash fiction, poetry, experimental and hybrids that take linguistic risks to push the boundaries of conventional language and genres. We welcome both published and emerging writers. 
Please send submissions to bloodtreelitATyahooDOTcom to be considered for publication. All submissions must be submitted in a single Microsoft Word or PDF document. Please include a cover page stating your name, a brief bio, and your contact information. 
More details:
  • The launch of Blood Tree Literature is due this summer. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified when the journal goes live.
  • Submissions are rolling. 
  • Simultaneous submissions are accepted. 
  • Multiple submissions are accepted. Please include all pieces in a single document.
  • If two or more of your pieces are accepted, we ask that we may publish them intermittently and within the span of two months (at maximum) starting from the time that the first piece was published.
 Feel free to email bloodtreelitATyahooDOTcom if you have any questions.
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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Delusion, Pardon, and The Heat Made Me Do It

19 July 2017

Make art about self-deception, about deluding the self. 

self-deception-1

20 July 2017

Make art about pardons, the act of pardoning, about choosing to punish or forgive.

punish forgive pardon

21 July 2017

Experts have often drawn a correlation between heat and crime.

Make art about the emotional effects of extreme heat.

extreme heat

Daily Prompt Love <3 Summer in the South

18 July 2017

Make art about humidity, about what those grand old Southern women used to call the closeness of the heat, the sweat, the cling, the sultry. 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! 11 Days Worth of Prompt Love! <3

Prompt Love Catch-Up!

6 July 2017

Make art about packing for a trip, what to leave in, what to leave out.

packing

7 July 2017

Make art about arrivals, about arriving.

arriving.jpg

8 July 2017

Make art about reunion of souls.

reunion of souls

9 July 2017

Liminal: occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

Make art about liminal space.

liminal space

10 July 2017

Make art about light and dark, about the juxtaposition of light to dark, about how we need one to know the other. (with love to Mesha Maren ❤ )

light-and-dark

11 July 2017

Make art about moving past obstacles (with love to Rahul Mehta ❤ )

obstacles

12 July 2017

Make art about a whisper, or a howl (with love to Kim Dana Kupperman ❤ )

howl_artwork_full

13 July 2017

Make art about relocating in our own bodies (with love to Jon Corcoran ❤ )

body

14 July 2017

Make art about the amalgamous nature of memory, of how sometimes the amalgam is more true. (With love to Eric Waggoner ❤ )

Memory

15 July 2017

Make art about point of view, about deliberately shifting point of view (with love to Rodney Jones ❤ )

point of view

16 July 2017

Make art about departures.

departure

17 July 2017

Make art about driving alone, about that silence in the cocoon of the car.

driving alone

 

Sometimes the Day Is the Poem <3

Daily Prompt Love <3 Wild Thing, Heart Sing

5 July 2017

My new kitten, Moco, is racing around my little house like it’s the great wide open, galloping, spinning, leaping, the sheer joy in the race itself. 

Make art about running, running wild, the free, unfettered, primal leap and race. 

kitten leaping

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