Sometimes Late Is the Prompt :-)
10/1/2015
Daily Prompt
😀 woke up late and so has procrastinated almost everything today 😀 Make art about putting things off 😀
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Sometimes What You Miss is the Prompt
9/30/2015
Daily Prompt
Things you miss: laughing together, the shared quiet of dawn, touching his skin.
Make art about Love’s small gestures.
Sometimes the Prompt is Detailed in the Instructions :-)
Daily Prompt
I’ll give y’all the prompt I gave my Baby Poets last night 🙂
Write a How To piece (poem, story, essay), building something creative and beautiful out of a set of instructions.
I told them if they would send me titles, I’d write one too, using one of their titles, so today, I’ll be writing either How To Walk a Dog or How To Walk Down Stairs.
DailyPrompt Catch-Up
DailyPrompt Catch-Up
9/25/2015
Road trip to visit with my daughter and son-in-law. Early early morning arrival. “What remains for us has always been what’s arriving”~Wayne Miller Make art about arrival, about what’s arriving.
9/26/2015
Did a little bargaining at the farmer’s market. Haggling is an integral part of the shopping experience in many cultures, and should be considered a game, rather than a battle. Make art about haggling or bargaining.
9/27/2015
Dreamt I was weaving a flower chain necklace for a child, whose bright laughter I heard from a distance. Make art about laughter, the catharsis of laughter, the gift of mirth.
Sometimes the Equinox is the Prompt :-)
Daily Prompt
Happy Autumnal Equinox ❤
Make art about balance.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-)
9/21/2015
Daily Prompt missed yesterday 😦 Oops! So make art about a missed opportunity. 🙂
9/22/2015
Daily Prompt “Aging, I am a stowaway in the hold of my being.”~Stanley Moss Make art about aging, about the stages of growing older.
Opportunity Missed and Taken Green Road Sign and Clouds
Monday Must Read! M. Mack: Traveling and Imaginary Kansas
Monday Must Read!
This week meet M. Mack. M. Mack is a genderqueer poet, editor, and fiber artist in Virginia. Mack is also the author of Theater of Parts (Sundress Publications, 2016) and the chapbook Imaginary Kansas (dancing girl press, 2015). Ze holds an M.F.A. from George Mason University and is former managing editor of So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art. Hir work has appeared recently in Fence, cream city review, Hot Metal Bridge, and The Queer South (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014). Mack is a founding co-editor of Gazing Grain Press and an assistant editor for Cider Press Review.
Traveling is a collection of hybrid prose sequences that have some elements of dramatic forms. They investigate gender across multiple dimensions real and otherwise. Traveling is, in part, a reference to traveling dreams and astral travel. The chapbook was selected with four others in Hyacinth Girl‘s 2014 open reading period, which was run as Chapbook Thunderdome. Traveling was edited by Tess Wilson for HGP and designed by Sarah Reck. The cover art is by Tristin Miller (who has a facebook page here).
Order Traveling!
http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfive/traveling.html
M. Mack’s website:
Links to published sequences from the chapbook and a video of one of the poems:
http://wickedalicezine.tumblr.com/post/50908249325/not-this-by-m-mack
http://www.menacinghedge.com/fall2014/entry-mack.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3A3EyZX-4g
Here is an interview:
Some bits of Imaginary Kansas, a chapbook forthcoming later this summer from dancing girl press.
http://melancholyhyperbole.com/tag/m-mack/
http://www.temenosjournal.com/poetry/Mack_Kansas.html
Happy reading!
xo
Mary
Sometimes the Prompt is for My Son’s Birthday
Daily Prompt
9/20/2015
Made my son birthday breakfast 🙂 He turned 27 today, and is both one of my greatest teachers, and my dearest friend. Breakfast involved gravy 🙂 Of course, it did 🙂 We’re Southern ❤
The rest is gravy.Gravy train. Good gravy!
Make art about gravy. Yep. Gravy. 🙂
Sometimes You Have to Let the Prompt Go
Daily Prompt
“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.”~Kahlil Gibran
Make art about releasing control.
Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Brave
Daily Prompt
Made myself do something I was terrified to do.
Make art about that moment you push through fear.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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