Daily Prompt Love <3 Blocking
26 July 2019
Make art about obstruction, about obstructing something, or about being obstructed.
Image by Brigitte Werner from Pixabay
Archive for the ‘resistance’ Category
Daily Prompt Love <3 Facing It
23 July 2019
Make art about confrontation, about confronting someone or something, about avoiding confrontation, or about a time when confrontation was healthy.
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If We Could Know Our Bones <3 Throwing Back to a Older Poem
Feeling the need to share the title poem from my 2013 book, If We Could Know Our Bones–if we saw how much we’re alike, could we be kinder?
If We Could Know Our Bones
But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty.~Gospel of Thomas
If we could know our bones the way we know our skin, perhaps we’d not dig graves, but build rooms, havens, shrines, for even our enemies, their bodies rescued from the ditch and battlefield, no longer pitched into holes, safe and out of sight, but standing, eloquent and equal in their lines: tines of rib, cradle of skull, clavicle like a little key, memories of movement in femur and fluted tibia, their jaws, hinged and singing, angel light pouring through the basin of each pelvis. Free of water, fat and muscle, perhaps they’d claim us, tell us of sharing even what can’t be known–Os innominatum– those nameless bones.
-Mary Carroll-Hackett, 2013
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Daily Prompt Love <3 Where You Came From
20 July 2019
If you live in the United States, unless you’re Native American, your people came here from somewhere else.
Make art about your immigrant ancestors.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Fighting Back
16 July 2019
Make art about or that fights back against racism.
Want to learn what white people can do, using that privilege, to fight racism? Check out Derrick Clifton’s article at Everyday Feminism
“10 Simple Ways White People Can Step Up to Fight Everyday Racism”
Monday Must Read! Before Language by Susan Deer Cloud
Love this book!
Susan Deer Cloud, a mixed lineage Catskill Indian, is an alumna of Goddard College (MFA) and Binghamton University (B.A. and M.A.). She has taught Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Literature at Binghamton University and Broome Community College. A few years ago she returned to her “heart country” Catskills to dwell once more with foxes, deer, black bears, bald eagles, and the ghosts of panthers and ancestors. She now lives as a full-time mountain woman, dreamer and writer. Deer Cloud is the recipient of various awards and fellowships, including an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, two New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, and a Chenango County Council for the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant. Some of her books are Hunger Moon (Shabda Press); Fox Mountain, The Last Ceremony and Car Stealer (FootHills Publishing); and Braiding Starlight (Split Oak Press). Her poems, stories and essays have been published in anthologies and journals too numerous to name. In order to get out “the voices of the voiceless,” the poet has edited three published anthologies: multicultural Confluence and Native American anthologies I Was Indian (Before Being Indian Was Cool), Volumes I & II; the 2008 Spring Issue of Yellow Medicine Review, a Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art & Thought; and the Re-Matriation Chapbook Series of Indigenous Poetry. She is a member of the international peace organization SERVAS; Poets & Writers; Associated Writing Programs (AWP); and indigenous Wordcraft Circle. She has served on panels at writers’ conferences and given myriad poetry readings at colleges, cultural centers, coffee houses, and other venues. In between her sojourns in the Catskills, Deer Cloud has spent the past few years roving with her life’s companion, John Gunther, around Turtle Island (North America) as well as on the Isles (Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England) and Europe
Daily Prompt Love <3 Together
15 July 2019
Make art about building unity, about unifying forces, about forces that bring people together.
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 What They Don't Want To Know
14 July 2019
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ―
Make art about willful ignorance.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
Written
on July 17, 2019