"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

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Monday Must Read: Kate Litterer, Ghosty Boo

 

tumblr_inline_nu5opjKRpu1repb9q_500Meet Kate Litterer, author of Ghosty Boo, just released from A-Minor Press. Kate received her MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Program for Poets and Writers. Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from Coconut, The Destroyer, Dusie, Finery, Forklift, Ohio, h_ngm_n, Ilk, inter|rupture, Jellyfish, La Vague, Mistress, NonBinary Review, Phantom Limb, Route Nine Literary Journal, Sixth Finch, Spoke Too Soon, Quaint, the anthology Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poems for the Next Generation, and the anthologyHysteria. She is pursuing a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she focuses on queer and feminist historiography, butch/femme experience, and archival research. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her two maine coon cats.

Kate’s Website: katelitterer.com

Buy Kate’s Book!

Ghosty Boo

https://www.createspace.com/5662024

Praise for Ghosty Boo!

“Ghosty Boo lives inside of a book by Kate Litterer who lives with “a hard job to hurt out of revolted love.” Poetry is always asking us what is it we’re willing to do, and when we take into our own private worlds what’s sincere and true, fierce and relentlessly unforgiving are we able to ever feel safe again? Ghosty Boo has an answer for that.” -Dara Wier, author ofYou Good Thing

Featured Excerpt in A-Minor Magazine

http://aminormagazine.com/2015/09/28/featured-excerpt-six-from-ghosty-boo/

Read More from Kate Online

http://quaintmagazine.com/issues/issue-four/from-ghosty-boo-kate-litterer/

http://ilkjournal.com/journal/issue-six/kate-litterer/

http://www.coconutpoetry.org/litterer18

http://www.barrelhousemag.com/once-we-posed-our-barbies-like-a-playboy-shoot-by-kate-litterer/

http://www.interrupture.com/archives/june_2013/kate_litterer/

http://phantombooks.net/kate-litterer-2/

Interview at Please Excuse This Poem

http://pleaseexcusethispoem.tumblr.com/post/97735057265/q-a-with-kate-litterer

Hear Kate Read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij9FYcdF6Ag

 

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Seeds, and Play, and Rebirth!

Daily Prompt Catch-Up!

3/25/2016

My grandmother Miz Pearl always said to plant on Good Friday. I haven’t gotten the garden in yet, but I did put in some basil and some seed potatoes. Seeds of a new season.

Make art about seeds.

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3/26/2016

Easter gathering with family, and my favorite part was watching my loving generous adult sons play with the baby cousins. Make art about love and gifts across the generations.

3/27/2016

Make art about your own resurrection.

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Sometimes the Prompt Hurts So Much

Discrimination, df:  treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit:

Make art about discrimination, about enduring discrimination, about surviving discrimination, about conquering discrimination, about eliminating discrimination.

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Sometimes the Prompt Is How We Connect

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Building the first issue of HeartWood 🙂 So excited to be part of bringing these beautiful words out into the world. Thinking about how art lets connect in ways unlike anything else, how it lets us reach across space, across time, across history, and commune with each other.

Communion defined: the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings, especially when the exchange is on a mental, emotional, or spiritual level.

Make art about communion. Or about art as communion.

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Sometimes the Day Needs Some Magic

Praying for Brussels, praying for us all.

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Sometimes We Have To Follow the Prompt

 

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“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” A. Einstein

Make art about intuition, about how intuition whispers, about listening to it, or about what happens if we don’t.

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Sometimes the Prompt Gets By With a Little Help From Friends

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Great conversation thread yesterday started by the amazing poet and person Karen Craigo on Facebook regarding what we can do all to support poetry and other poets. Got me thinking about how my mama always quoted John Donne, his “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions,” saying “No man is an island.” 

Make art about community, abut community-building, about our need for community. 

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Monday Must Read! Rachel Heimowitz: What the Light Reveals

Monday Must Read! Rachel Heimowitz: What the Light Reveals

rachel HThis week meet Rachel Heimowitz, the author of the chapbook, What the Light Reveals (Tebot Bach Press, 2014.) Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Spillway, Crab Orchard Review, and Prairie Schooner and she has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. She is currently the editor of arc-24, the literary journal of The Israel Association of Writers in English and she is due to receive her MFA from Pacific University in Spring 2015.

Visit Rachel’s Website

 http://www.rachelheimowitz.com/#!bio/c1ktj

Buy Rachel’s book!

Tebot Bach Press: http://www.tebotbach.org/publication.html#lightreveals

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/What-Light-Reveals-Rachel-Heimowitz/dp/1939678072/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458560531&sr=8-1&keywords=Rachel+Heimowitz

Praise for What the Light Reveals

In poem after vivid poem, Rachel Heimowitz “gather[s] what is holy/into [her] palms,” using words and “the light between words” to describe life in contemporary Israel—fraught with danger and uncertainty as well as joy and vision. The precise music of these poems moves from somber moments of religious and historical reflection to the description of dramatic, even frightening, events in contemporary life, proving once again that political realities, faith, and personal, familial life are inescapably intertwined. These are, above all, accomplished and beautiful poems that will be read and reread for a very long time.
—Gale Wronsky

Rachel Heimowitz’s collection of poems, What the Light Reveals, is a remarkable debut. This brilliant, sobering, often harrowing – yet always lyrical – account of life in Israel is also a meditation on faith and family, both immediate family and the larger human family as well. As Rachel Heimowitz reckons her place as a woman in a time and place of war, we find ourselves, as readers, enveloped in one of the most intimate and dramatic sequences of poems in recent years. This is a book to cherish.—David St. John

“Holding”, Rachel Heimowitz says, “is a woman’s purpose”, and by “holding” she means keeping, securing, preserving, remembering, carrying deep inside as in prayer, witnessing, and testifying truthfully, earnestly and urgently. It is a woman’s purpose, this is true, and it is the poet’s purpose, too. Sometimes it is a splendid accident when a gifted poet is thrown into places and times that demand the poet’s heart and eye. In What the Light Reveals, Heimowitz shows herself to be precisely that poet, and the result is poetry of grace, exquisite wrenching, and stark honesty.—Kwame Dawes

Listen to Poems from What the Light Reveals

http://www.rachelheimowitz.com/#!blank/c6ll

Read More From Rachel Online:

http://composejournal.com/articles/rachel-heimowitz-two-poems/

http://www.crowhollowbooks.com/m1-1–rachel-heimowitz.html

http://www.soul-lit.com/poems/v5/Hemiowitz/index.html

http://atticusreview.org/bright-eyes-tight/   

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Spring Is Prompting All Over!

Two Prompts ‘Cause I’m Sooooo Happy Spring’s Here! 

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Dreamt last night I was playing with a little bitty baby bear We tussled and snuggled and giggled and romped. Make art about a baby’s capacity for joy. 🙂 Or about a bear. 🙂 

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Happy Spring Prompt 1

Make art with the first day of spring, about rebirth.

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Survivors and Rain

Daily Prompt Catch-Up!

3/18/2016

Make art about survivors.

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3/19/2016

Make art inspired by a rainy Saturday.

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