Daily Prompt Love <3 Prophecy
26 March 2019
For what is prophecy but the first inkling of what we ourselves must call into being?–Dana Glola
Make art about a prophecy, or a modern-day prophet.
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Monday Must Read! Starlight & Error by Remica Bingham-Risher
Remica Bingham-Risher, a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet, is the author of Conversion (Lotus, 2006) winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award and What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013). She is currently the Director of Writing and Faculty Development at Old Dominion University. She resides in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children.
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Praise for Starlight & Error
There’s starlight and sunlight – and no error I could find – in this elegant book where the soul shines through every line. Only when we see how richly the poems matter to the poet can they come so close to us – entering with inescapable feeling and authenticity. We believe, and live, what each poem says, because the heart knows truthful detail. Central to our humanistic beliefs are the love of daughter, wife, stepmother, lover. Here, we learn this all over again, and how complex problems like memory become strengths. Only perfect craft can make it all happen, with experience leading the way. Remica Bingham-Risher has written a world-class book of poems. It’s the best of the best in American poetry. This is no imitation. This is the real thing.–Grace Cavalier
 In Starlight & Error, Remica Bingham-Risher redefines the beat of the heart not only in the adult situations of romantic love but also in the adult decisions within the love of family. The scope of her vision helps us see into our own lives with a sharper focus. At a time in America when we need hope the most, this book offers us an open path; we no longer “wonder what other secrets/ we’ve been keeping/ on this side of the world.” Here- in her songs of forgetfulness and of memory, songs of the closed fist and the open palm, songs of regrets and of gratitude-we clearly see a world worth fighting for.–A. Van Jordan
Daily Prompt Love <3 Bold
24 March 2019
First line I wrote in my journal this morning: “The birds have become bold….”
Make art about becoming bold, about the boldness of nature, about being bold, or wishing you were.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Exposure
23 March 2019
Make art about feeling exposed, or about coming to terms with your own vulnerability.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Defying Expectation
20 March 2019
“Go back
to the window. Note the crocus
defying expectations”–Joy Ladin
Make art about defying expectation, or about the crocus.
Daily Prompt Love <3 In the Pages
19 March 2019
Make art about what you found hidden in an old book.
Monday Must Read <3 Siren by Kateri Lanthier
What a BEAUTIFUL book!
Kateri Lanthier‘s work has appeared in numerous journals, including Green Mountains Review, Hazlitt and Best Canadian Poetry 2014. She was awarded the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize. Her first book of poems is Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011). She lives in Toronto with her family.
“If you drop your weapons’-grade handshake, I’ll carry your kiss to the car.
Court controversy, skip the altar. What will survive of us is Spring.”
–from “Uncontrolled Burn”
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Praise for Siren
from Vehicule Press
“Siren, Kateri Lanthier’s astonishing second book, calls us to attention. In her search for what she calls “compelling melancholy,” Lanthier’s new poems not only draw on the ghazal’s history as love poetry but remind readers of the dangerous and alluring quality of the ancient form itself. The siren was a lethal yet seductive figure, and that sense of power—and as well as her fast-taking bemusement at her own reputation—is present in lines that marry unnerving dream logic to emotional fearlessness. Siren is an uncompromising achievement: an original style at once mysterious, witty and musical that refines and clarifies the world in consistently surprising ways.” Call it playing with fire. Call it connect-the-dots lightning.”
“…a heartfelt cry after the shipwreck…a restless and fearless engagement with the world” – Green Mountains Review
“Desire, then, rules these poems. These poems are not sweet. They are remarkably beautiful just to say out loud.” -Hannah Brown, Toronto Review of Books
“Kateri is a full speed poet, no meandering allowed. One minute you’re a grand piano and the next a Formula One engine. Lanthier finds a way so that “coral has osteoporosis” and “The satellite dish and the satellite must weep for their decay.” Lanthier ties these disparate threads together into an information overload, poems ripe with jaw drop.” – Michael Dennis
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