Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Night Driving
18 May 2019
Make art about night driving.
Posts tagged ‘Art is Resistance’
Monday Must Read! Undoing the Silence
I LOVE this book.
Undoing the Silence offers guidance to help both citizens and professionals influence democratic process through letters, articles, reports and public testimony.
Louise Dunlap, PhD, began her career as an activist writing instructor during the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. She learned that listening and gaining a feel for audience are just as important to social transformation as the outspoken words of student leaders atop police cars. “Free speech is a first step, but real communication matches speech with listening and understanding. That is when thinking shifts and change happens.” Dunlap felt compelled to go where the silences were deepest because her work aimed not just at teaching but also at healing both individual voices and an ailing collective voice. Her tales of those adventures and what she knows about the culture of silence — how gender, race, education, class, and family work to quiet dissent — are interwoven with practical methods for people to put their most challenging ideas into words. Louise Dunlap gives writing workshops around the country for universities and social justice, environmental, and peace organizations that help reluctant writers get past their internal censors to find their powerful voice. Her insight strengthens strategic thinking and her “You can do it!” approach makes social-action writing achievable for everyone.
Daily Prompt Love <3 That Fire
20 May 2019
Make art about walking through fire, about surviving the fire.
Daily Prompt Love <3 What You Can
17 May 2019
One of my life mantras, something I share with my students all the time, and how I have tried to live each day, is Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
Make art about giving of your time, your resources, about the power of volunteering,about how much volunteering is needed. Or make art about having received the benefit of volunteers.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 Saving
16 May 2019
“There are words/ I’ve had to save myself from”-Stephen Dunn
Make art about what saved you, what you saved yourself from, or about what needs to be saved.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Obsessed
14 May 2019
Make art about obsession, about being obsessed, about the dangers of obsession.
Monday Must Read! Haunted City by Julie Brooks Barbour
Julie Brooks Barbour is the author of two full-length collections, Haunted City (2017) and Small Chimes(2014), both from Kelsay Books, and three chapbooks, including Beautifully Whole (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2015) and Earth Lust (Finishing Line Press, 2014). Her poems have recently appeared in South Dakota Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Whale Road Review, and The Indianapolis Review. She is co-editor of Border Crossing and Poetry Editor at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. She teaches writing at Lake Superior State University and is a Guest Artist Mentor for Wilson College’s MFA Program.
Praise for Haunted City!
Julie Brooks Barbour’s exciting new book, Haunted City, occupies the edge between poetry and fable, dream and nightmare. These vivid prose poems, themselves between genres, construct a terrifying metropolis of desire. -Stuart Dischell, author of Backwards Days and Dig Safe
This book of prose poems, or perhaps it is a short novel with poetic lines backlit by lightning, is mysterious and involving, indeed haunting. Barbour is a true poet with a muse at her side. As she explains, what she has created is “really what someone else created when I relinquished control.”-Kelly Cherry, author of The Life and Death of Poetry: Poems
Presented in brief glimpses of lyric prose, an extended sequence of image-driven evocations, Barbour gives us experimental writing at its very best, offering innovations in form and technique that are thought-provoking as they are charged with affect and suspense. This is an accomplished book by a truly remarkable writer. -Kristina Marie Darling, author of Scorched Altar: Selected Poems & Stories 2007-2014
Happy Reading!
Daily Prompt Love <3 Dad
13 May 2019
Happy Birthday, Daddy ❤
Make art about fathers, about fathering, about a dad.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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