2 October 2017
Make art about the fear behind hate.
3 October 2017
Make art about the soundtrack of your life.
4 October 2017
Make art about losing your grasp.
5 October 2017
Make art about being let down.
6 October 2017
Make art about what’s out of place.
7 October 20017
Make art about coming together.
8 October 2017
Make art about remembering what you need.
J. P. Dancing Bear is the author of five full-length books of poems, six chapbook, several essays, and more than 1000 individual poems in such magazines and anthologies as Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, Natural Bridge, DIAGRAM, No Tell Motel, Third Coast, Copper Nickel, Cimarron Review, Poetry East, North American Review, Atlanta Review, Verse Daily, Poetry International, Marlboro Review, Hotel Amerika, Seattle Review, Permafrost, Puerto Del Sol, Controlled Burn, Cranky, Rattle, Americas Review, Slipstream and many others. His work has recently been translated into Chinese.
Honors include the 2002 Slipstream Chapbook Prize, the 2010 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award, Highly Commended in The Forward Prize 2010 (UK), and 14 Pushcart nominations.
He is the editor of The American Poetry Journal, owner of Dream Horse Press, publisher of the Orphic Prize and APJ Book Prize series, as well as the first animal rights poetry anthology And We The Creatures.
J.P. Dancing Bear has been invited to give poetry readings around the US.
For nearly 15 years he was the host of “Out of Our Minds” a weekly radio show for public radio station KKUP featuring some of today’s best contemporary poets. Bear works with Nicaraguan poet Blanca Castellon on translating of her poetry into English, the first will appear in Redactions, Marlboro Review, International Poetry Review, iconoclast, Pirene’s Fountain, Numéro Cinq and The Bitter Oleander. He has also worked with Mexican poet Oscar Wong to translate his work into English. He also is currently working with Yu Xuan to translate contemporary Chinese poet, Sheng Tong (aka Holy Child), into English.
Visit J.P. Dancing Bear’s Website
Buy J.P.’s Books
Fish Singing Foxes: Forthcoming Dec 2017 & Available for Pre-Order
Read More from J.P. Dancing Bear Online
https://hyperallergic.com/206837/two-poems-by-j-p-dancing-bear/
http://www.americanliteraryreview.com/jp-dancing-bear—within.html
https://peonymoon.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/j-p-dancing-bear-five-poems/
http://diodepoetry.com/v3n1/content/bear_jpd.html
https://www.valpo.edu/vpr/bearchiroptera.html
Hear Him Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AaGL78jXsM
Happy Reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
21 September 2017
Make art about redefining what home means.
22 September 2017
Make art about building or tearing down fences.
23 September 2017
Make art about the power of repetition.
24 September 2017
Make art about genetic memory.
25 September 2017
Make art about your last encounter with an angel.
26 September 2017
Make art about dissent.
27 September 2017
Make art about healing touch.
28 September 2017
Make art about that neighbor.
29 September 2017
Make art about responding to hate with unity and grace.
30 September 2017
Make art about what’s present in the absence.
1 October 2017
Make art about stepping away.
20 September 2017
My son’s 29th birthday is today. He has, since we met, proven to be one of my best friends, a wise, funny, compassionate, loving child who grew into a wise, funny, compassionate, loving man. He has been and remains one of my greatest teachers.
Make art about your teachers.
16 September 2017
Make art about a difficult decision.
17 September 2017
Make art about not being heard.
18 September 2017
Make art about catching that second wind.
19 September 2017
Make art about what’s being seeded.
For more information regarding submissions please visit: www.placeholdermag.com/get-involved/
14 September 2017
Make art about living with the consequences of a regrettable choice.
15 September 2017
Make art about what the sea says.
12 September 2017
Make art about leaving your comfort zone.
13 September 2017
Make art about what you want to leave behind.
2 September 2017
Make art about money, having money, or not having it.
3 September 2017
Make art poverty of the spirit.
4 September 2017
Make art about the origin of a lie.
5 September 2017
Make art about the sound of animal, a purring cat, a growling dog, the whistle of a songbird, the cry of a hawk.
6 September 2017
Make art about the storm coming.
7 September 2017
Make art about arrogance, an arrogant person, about dealing with arrogance.
8 September 2017
Make art about preparing to leave.
9 September 2017
Make art inspired by or about water words: aquaduct, bog, creek, drizzle, fjord…
More here: 100 Words for Water: http://www.wallacejnichols.org/234/623/100-words-for-water.html
10 September 2017
Make art about rescue, rescuing, being rescued.
11 September 2017
Make art about recovery, about what that recovery means to you.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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