Daily Prompt <3 The Power of Choice
22 July 2016
Make art inspired by this quote.
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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Revolution, Creation, and Dreaming
7/19/2016
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”~John Kennedy
Make art about revolution.
7/20/2016
When the world becomes too much, I make things, usually for other people. So this week I’m sewing old fashioned cloth dolls to send to the children’s unit at the Massey Cancer Center.
Make art about when the world becomes too much.
7/21/2016
In the way I was taught, there are four fundamental types of dreams: waking life dreams; visitation dreams; teaching dreams; and traveling dreams.
Make art about one of these types of dreams.
18 Months of Daily Prompts!
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Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3
7/16/2016
“Late, I have come to a parched land/doubting my gift, if gift I have,/the inspiration of water”~Dannie Abse
Make art about the inspiration of water.
7/17/2016
“Poor dear son, though you were not my son, I felt to love you as a son, what short time I saw you sick & dying here—“~Walt Whitman (letter to Erastus Haskell’s parents)
Make art about how they are all our sons.
7/18/2016
“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”~Mother Teresa
Make art about the open heart.
Monday Must Read! Jonathan Moody: Olympic Butter Gold
This week meet Jonathan Moody. Jonathan holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and a BS degree in Psychology from Xavier University of Louisiana. Author of The Doomy Poems (Six Gallery Press, 2012) and Olympic Butter Gold (Northwestern University Press, 2015), winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, his poetry has appeared in such publications as African American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Borderlands, Boston Review, The Common, and Harvard Review Online. He lives in Fresno, Texas, with his wife and son.
Buy Jonathan Moody’s Books
Olympic Butter Gold
http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/olympic-butter-gold
Jonathan Moody grew up during the Golden Ages of hip-hop and listened to rap that was as adventurous and diverse as his military upbringing. When rap’s Golden Ages expired, the music’s innovativeness and variety diminished. Moody’s second book, Olympic Butter Gold, winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, responds to Chuck D’s claim that “if there was a HIP-HOP or Rap Olympics, I really don’t think the United States would get Gold, Silver or Brass.” From the poem “Opening Ceremony,” in the voice of a heroin addict struggling to use Lady Liberty’s torch to cook “The American Dream,” to “Dear 2Pac,” an autobiographical account of teaching Tupac Shakur’s poetry to engage high school students indifferent to literature, Moody shares a worldview that is simultaneously apocalyptic and promising.
The Doomy Poems
https://www.amazon.com/Doomy-Poems-Jonathan-Moody/dp/1926616448
“The Doomy Poems challenges the notion that the blues embodies resignation: a self-imposed suffering in which one chooses to remain stuck at the crossroads of nostalgia and obsession. Through persona poems written in the voices of three characters, Jonathan Moody illustrates that in both the South (Houston) and the North (Pittsburgh) the roads to love and integrity, although freshly paved, are strewn with nails and shards of glass.”
Read More From Jonathan Online
http://harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu/?q=features/poetry/inefficiency-burning
https://www.bostonreview.net/poetry/npm15-jonathan-moody-aubade-the-son-rising
http://www.storysouth.com/poetry/2006/07/moody_three_poems.html
http://fplrefdesk.blogspot.com/2013/12/2-poems-by-featured-poet-jonathan-moody.html
Interviews
http://thecommononline.org/features/topical-poetry-interview-jonathan-moody
http://1839mag.com/profiles/observing-the-wider-universe-through-hip-hop-a-look-at-jonathan-moody/
http://thecommonmag.tumblr.com/post/109985371108/topical-poetry-an-interview-with-jonathan-moody
Hear Jonathan Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l10VqL4VSZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMJNpbW8W6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4lkbkp4e1w
Happy Reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt <3 The Wound, The Light
15 July 2016
“Art is a wound turned into light.”~Georges Braque
Make art about the wound, about transforming pain into light.
Daily Prompt <3 Hard Travelin' for the Tender Hearted.
29 June 2016
“It’s hard to wake up sometimes and look back at your life with clear eyes, isn’t it? All the Hello’s and Goodbye’s, and all the things said and left unsaid, whether they were timely, or easy, or uncomfortable or boltfree, or jarring, or just plain true, at least for you, in the moment of their saying.And once you’re awake you have to listen to the now, or ignore it and pretend that it’s just not there. Tricky stuff for the strongest of us, and hard travelin’ for the tender hearted. Like pilgrims on some dusty trail, the long line of true believers stretches into nothingness, and the shadows of the don’t fit in’s move along like so much smoke, pungent and ethereal, lingering toward home.”~John Little Bear Eaton
Make art about the don’t fit in’s.
John Little Bear Eaton
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