Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon!
Good Morning, Bargain Shoppers! No Lines! No Waiting!
24 New Prompts for our Third Better Than Black Friday Writing Marathon! Now posted!
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Okay my Virginia lovelies!
I’m thrilled to be part of the Longwood Authors’ Reading Series, this coming Wednesday!
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 8pm
Wygal Auditorium on Longwood’s campus
Reception (Free food!) to follow.
I’ll be reading from my newest book, A Little Blood, A Little Rain, as well as The Night I Heard Everything, both from FutureCycle Press.
And maybe…. we’ll have a lil contest and give away a couple free copies of the new book! 😉
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10/9/2016
Make art about connections made through food, connections in the present, or to the past.
10/8/2016
Been helping my son put together his costume for the Renaissance Faire. He’s reaching back to his roots in the coastal lowlands of eastern North Carolina, and going as a pirate this year, appropriate since he lived the earliest years of his life only twenty miles from where the infamous Edward Teach–Blackbeard–made his home in Bath, NC. In fact, archaeologists from my alma mater, East Carolina University, worked in conjunction with the NC Department of Cultural Resources, to raise Balckbard’s ship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, from those wild waters on my beloved Outer Banks. (ECU’s mascot is a Pirate 🙂 I am purple and gold forever! 🙂 )
All this work on his costume, plus, I think, the current political situation, probably led to the dream I had last night where I was pouring beer for ruffians in some steampunk version of an 18th century tavern.
Make art about pirates. Or inspired by the word ‘pirate.’
10/1/2016
Walking in these West Virginia mountains 🙂
“The falling leaves, all over the forest, are protecting the roots of my plants. Only look at what is to be seen, and you will have garden enough, without deepening the soil in your yard. We have only to elevate our view a little to see the whole forest as a garden.” ~Thoreau
Make art about ‘garden enough.’
10/2/2016
Driving back from WV, I stopped for gas, and Road Angel Louise tells me her story of trying to recover from the recent flooding, what it’s like to lose so much. “Just go from here, I reckon,” she said.
Make art about rebounding from tragedy, about how we ‘just go from here.’
10/3/2016
Dreamt someone I love brought me apples, Honey Crisp and Red Delicious, Granny Smith and Winesap, even a couple of Arkansas Black. He sliced one with his sharp knife, and smiling, said, Here you go, Missy. A taste of what’s to come.
Make art about the taste of autumn. Or about what’s to come.
The most recent book from one of my always favorite poets, Pattiann Rogers.
Ms. Rogers has published eleven books of poetry; two book-length essay collections, The Dream of the Marsh Wren and The Grand Array; and A Covenant of Seasons, poems and monotypes, in collaboration with Joellyn Duesberry. She is the recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award for poetry. She lives in Colorado.
Read the title poem here in American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/holy-heathen-rhapsody
Buy Holy Heathen Rhapsody
https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Heathen-Rhapsody-Penguin-Poets/dp/0143123882
Praise for Holy Heathen Rhapsody
“I believe Pattiann Rogers walks the world at night when we are sleeping. Her poems are translations of our dreaming life—what we know to be true but fail to remember. We read her words, sentence by sentence, image by image, and return to all that is beautiful, mysterious, and erotic.”
—Terry Tempest Williams
“Pattiann Rogers is a visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed. Her language, unmarred by clichés, springs up out of a sense of how various and endlessly amazing are the forms of life and the human ability to notice them.”
—Denise Levertov
“How the densely detailed, thickly textured, imaged stanzas of Pattiann Rogers result in so much light-as-air wonderment is surely one of the greater questions—one of the greater magics—of contemporary poetry. But however it happens, we must be thankful—for both the science text and the psalter of her work, for both the physical abundance and for the spirit flimmering over it.”
—Albert Goldbarth
Read More from Ms. Rogers Online
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/pattiann-rogers#about
http://www.terrain.org/2014/poetry/two-poems-by-pattiann-rogers/
https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/pattiann-rogers-poem/
https://imagejournal.org/article/speak-rain/
Interviews
http://www.missourireview.com/anthology/interview-with-pattiann-rogers
http://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_pattiann_rogers?cmnt_all=1
Ms. Rogers on Merging Science and Poetry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicNcqk08Pk
http://www.cennamology.com/home/pattiann-rogers-review-merging-poetry-science-and-philosophy
Reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBelOceSMA
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
9/30/2016
Make art about the struggle between faith and fear, or about faith overcoming fear.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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