Sometimes the Prompt is the Key :-)
9/1/2015
Dreamt someone I love gave me a ring full of keys and I gleefully skipped around unlocking and throwing open doors. 🙂
Make art about keys, about finding the key. 
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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Big Family Weekend :-)
Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂
8/29/2015
All my kids coming home for a visit 🙂 Make art about visitors.
8/30/2015
You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.” ~Diane Samuels Make art about children, young or adult, or about parenting.
8/31/2015
I’m fixin to go on a sewin binge 🙂 The first known sewing needle came from southwestern France and dates to about 25,000 years ago. When I sew, I feel an endless procession of women surround me, as I, in my small way, add to the story. Make art about sewing, or needlework, or stitching something together.
A set of bone needles from the Cave of Courbet in the Aveyron Valley, near Toulouse, France. Believed to be over 13,000 years old.
Monday Must Read! Marilyn McCabe: Perpetual Motion and Rugged Means of Grace
Monday Must Read!
This week, meet Marilyn McCabe, author of Perpetual Motion, published by The Word Works in 2012 as the winner of the Hilary Tham Capitol Collection contest.
Peek inside and purchase Marilyn’s book from Small Press Distribution:
http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780915380824/perpetual-motion.aspx
A chapbook, Rugged Means of Grace, was published by Finishing Line Press:
https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=1337
Marilyn’s poem “On Hearing the Call to Prayer Over the Marcellus Shale on Easter Morning” was awarded A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize, fall 2012, appeared in the Los Angeles Review.
Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as Nimrod, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, French translations and songs on Numero Cinq, and a video-poem on The Continental Review.
Visit Marilyn’s blog about writing and reading at marilynonaroll.wordpress.com
Read more of Marilyn’s work online:
Valparaiso Literary Review:
http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v14n1/v14n1poetry/mccabelakeshore.php
The Cortland Review:
http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/52/mccabe.php
Interview at TNB:
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbpoetry/2012/04/marilyn-mccabe-the-tnb-self-interview/
Happy reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
When the Dream is the Prompt, or the Prompt is a Dream :-)
8/28/2015
Daily Prompt
“I see you in your backyard’s lavender, post-lunch doze, dreaming someone.”~W.S. Di Piero
Make art inspired by lavender, the color or the scent or the flower 🙂 or the feeling 🙂
Daily Prompt :-) In Pieces
8/24/2015
Daily Prompt
Woke up feeling like life’s full of promise 🙂 So many dreams last night, but all that remains are shining fragments 🙂
Make art about fragments.
Monday Must Read! Diana Whitney: Wanting It
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Diana Whitney. Diana’s first book of poetry, Wanting It, was released in 2014 by Harbor Mountain Press and became an indie bestseller. Wanting It won the Rubery International Book Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Julie Suk Award here in the US. Diana is the poetry columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the winner of the 2015 Women’s National Book Association poetry prize, selected by Ellen Bass. She is grateful to have received grants and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center.
Diana’s poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Crab Orchard Review, The Rumpus, Mud Season Review, and many more. Her irreverent parenting column, Spilt Milk, was syndicated for years, ran as a public radio commentary series, and is currently being collected into a risky memoir about motherhood and sexuality. A yoga teacher by trade, Diana blogs about the darker side of mothering for The Huffington Post and runs a yoga studio in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and thirteen chickens.
Visit Diana’s website: www.diana-whitney.com
Get Diana’s book:
http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988275522/wanting-it.aspx
Reviews of Diana’s book, Wanting It:
Gulf Coast Magazine:
http://gulfcoastmag.org/online/blog/wanting-it,-a-review/
Coal Hill Review:
http://www.coalhillreview.com/book-review-wanting-it-by-diana-whitney/
Read Diana’s work online:
New poems:
Mud Season Review
http://mudseasonreview.com/2015/07/poetry-issue-11/
One: Jacar Press
http://one.jacarpress.com/?s=Diana+Whitney#Diana%20Whitney
Book Reviews:
http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Poetry-John-Burnside-Jane-Hirshfield-Rebecca-6401935.php
Essays:
http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2013/08/10/kissing-essay-diana-whitney/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-whitney/raising-a-rock-star_b_5888600.html
Author interviews:
http://mudseasonreview.com/2015/07/you-never-know-when-youre-working/
http://www.penparentis.org/interview-with-poet-diana-whitney/
Happy reading!
xo
Mary
Monday Must Read! Therése Halscheid: Frozen Latitudes
Monday Must Read!
This week, meet Therése Halscheid. Therése’s new book Frozen Latitudes (Press 53), won the Eric Hoffer Book Award, HM for Poetry. Other collections include Uncommon Geography,Without Home, Powertalk, and a Greatest Hits chapbook award.
Her poems and essays have appeared in many journals, among them The Gettysburg Review,Tampa Review, Crab Orchard Review, Natural Bridge.
By way of house-sitting, she has lived the life of an itinerant writer. Her travels have taken her from a swamp in the Florida Panhandle to the Arctic north of Alaska, where she lived with and taught an Eskimo Inupiaq tribe.
Visit Therése’s website: www.ThereseHalscheid.com
Monday Must Read! Ellen Hagan: Hemisphere and Crowned
Monday Must Read!
This weeek, meet Ellen Hagan, writer, performer, and educator. Her latest collection of poetry Hemisphere was released from Northwestern University Press, Spring 2015. Ellen’s poems and essays can be found in the pages of Creative Nonfiction, Underwired Magazine, She Walks in Beauty (edited by Caroline Kennedy), Huizache, Small Batch, and Southern Sin. Her first collection of poetry, Crowned was published by Sawyer House Press in 2010.
Ellen recently joined the poetry faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan in their low-residency MFA program. She teaches Memoir, Poetry & Nature, and co-leads the Alice Hoffman Young Writer’s Retreat at Adelphi University. She is Poetry Chair of the DreamYard Project. A proud Kentucky writer, Ellen is a member of the Affrilachian Poets, Conjure Women, and is co-founder of the girlstory collective. She lives with her husband and daughters in New York City.
Website
Buy Local
Hemisphere: Poems | IndieBound
Review
BOOK: Ellen Hagan’s ‘Hemisphere’ – LEO Weekly
Duende Literary Magazine
Monday Must Read! Margaret Mackinnon, The Invented Child
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Margaret Mackinnon, author of The Invented Child, for which she received the Gerald Cable Book Award and was given the 2014 Literary Award in Poetry from the Library of Virginia. Her work has appeared in Image, Poetry, New England Review, Georgia Review, Quarterly West, RHINO, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Poet Lore, and other publications.
Margaret Mackinnon grew up in the South, influenced by a lush landscape and a family that emphasized a deep connection between language and meaning. Her mother wrote poetry as a young woman (and generously encouraged all her earliest literary efforts). Her father was a Presbyterian minister, so every Sunday, she watched him try to give shape to beliefs and questions through the words of sermons, prayers, and creeds.
In college, at Vassar and the University of North Carolina, Mackinnon studied art history and religion, thinking about how image and pattern intersect with what we see as significant. And then came five years in Japan, where she taught English and studied textile design in a small circle of Japanese women artists. She learned something there about the discipline of a craft, and how that kind of focus can take one into a deeper attention to the everyday world. Back in the United States, she entered the graduate program in creative writing at the University of Florida.
Her awards include the Richard Eberhart Poetry Prize from Florida State University, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. She teaches at a private girls’ high school and lives in Falls Church, Virginia.
She lives with her husband and daughter in Falls Church, Virginia.
More about The Invented Child
Margaret Mackinnon is a compelling voice in American poetry. Her début collection, The Invented Child, is beautifully poised between reticence and candor. Frequently inspired by visual art, she writes lovingly of her parents, her husband, her child, but also of Sophia Hawthorne and Walt Whitman and Grant Wood, reminding us of the “sweet amplitude” of life. These are splendid poems of feeling that look far beyond the self to the miraculous other. Brava! — Kelly Cherry
Four Poems from The Invented Child
http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/invented-child/
“For Grant Wood” at The Poetry Foundation
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/29417
“Mary Shelley’s Dream”
http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v12n1/v12n1poetry/mackinnonmary.php
More poems and reviews at Verse Daily
http://www.versedaily.org/2013/aboutmargaretmackinnon.shtml
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
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