"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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Daily Prompt Love <3 YFBD

14 June 2019 

“Stay true to it, Missy. Don’t doubt it. YFBD, baby. Your first best destiny.” -John Little Bear Eaton

Make art about your first best destiny, about finding and trusting the path you were born for, about believing and following your heart. 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Refugee

“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. 

refugee

Image by kai kalhh from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Breaks, and Breaks

12 June 2019

“What shall I do with all this heartache?:–Joy Harjo

Make art about unspeakable heartache. 

heartache

Image by Kevin McIver from Pixabay

 

Call for Submissions Love <3 K'in Seeking Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction

The third issue of K’in is live and filled with amazing voices! Check it out!

Then send us your beautiful work! We’re reading now for the November 2019 issue.

Experimental, traditional, playful, prayerful, celebratory, challenging: human—try us. Show us a new way to tell one of the millions of stories under that glorious sun.

Details here! 

together

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 She

11 June 2019

Make art about the wisdom of old women, about the dangerous old woman. 

old woman

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 In the Stars

10 June 2019 

Make art about starlight, about what you see written in the stars.

starlight

Image by James Wheeler from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Not So Blind After All

9 June 2019 

Make art about injustice, about the flaws in our justice system, about a moment of fighting injustice. 

injustice

Daily Prompt Love <3 Frailty

8 June 2019 

Make art about the fragility of life, the precarious balance, the delicate dance, of staying alive. 

fragile life

Image by GLady from Pixabay

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Other People's Truth

7 June 2019 

I often tell my writing students, “Just because it may not be true in your world, doesn’t mean it isn’t true.” 

Make art about trying to understand what it’s like to walk in someone else’s shoes, or about making space for experience that is very different than your own. 

other people's shoes

Image by Daniel Reche from Pixabay

Daily Prompt Love <3 Spreading the Love

6 June 2019

Make art about pollinators, about pollination, literal or metaphorical. 

pollinators

 

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