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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Gifts & Soup & Conspiracy Theories

Dec 18

Wrapping presents 🙂 I’ve never before managed to have them wrapped this early LOL  Make art about something kept under wraps. 

Dec 19

That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  Made Garden Vegetable Soup for me and my son.

Make art about soup. 

Dec 20 

Read a new story this morning about someone carrying a belief in a conspiracy theory too far. Make art about conspiracy. 

tree with presents

Sometimes the Prompt Is Left Behind For You

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Just drafted a poem called The Words Mama Left Me.
 
Make art about inheritance.
 
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Sometimes the Prompt Dances In Like a Gift

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Dreamt the walls of my bedroom melted away and I found myself surrounded by a herd of gentle deer, with their liquid eyes and dancer feet. They nuzzled me with velvet snouts, and whispered Welcome Welcome. We picked our way through a twilight wood, until the trees opened up into broad sweet-smelling fields. And then we ran, and ran, and ran. 🙂
 
Make art inspired by deer.
 
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Sometimes the Prompt Requires Action

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First week in the online class is all about defining activism, personal and professional.
Make art rooted in action.
action makes change

Sometimes the Prompt Is A Tender Touch

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Thinkin of all the loving care my nurse mama and sister gave their patients for decades.

Make art about nurses, about caretakers.

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Monday Must Read! Shaindel Beers: The Children’s War

 

 

 

Monday Must Read!

WhiteAuthorPhoto ShaindelThis week meet Shaindel Beers, the author of two full-length poetry collections, A Brief History of Time (2009) and The Children’s War and Other Poems (2013), both from Salt Publishing. Her awards include First place Karen Fredericks and Frances Willitts Poetry Prize, Grand Prize Co-winner Trellis Magazine sestina contest, First place Dylan Days Poetry Competition, and others. She currently serves as English department chair at Blue Mountain Community College, as Poetry Editor forContrary Magazine, and on the executive board of PAWS, the Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter. She lives in Pendleton, Oregon, with a zoo of pets and a wild four-year-old son.

Learn more

Official Site of Shaindel Beers

Buy Shaindel’s beautiful books!

A Brief History of Time

http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/a-brief-history-of-time-9781844715053

The Children’s War and Other Poems

http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-children-s-war-9781844719303

Read More From Shaindel Online:

Death, Sleep, Beauty” by Shaindel Beers | Pine Hills Review

poemeleon – Shaindel Beers

http://www.voiceinjournal.com/shaindel-beers-the-imprecision-of-language/

An American Meditation — Poetry by Shaindel Beers

http://www.theenchantingverses.org/uploads/4/6/1/6/461698/shaindelbeers.pdf

http://ithacalit.com/shaindel-beers.html#.Vm7AYEorLDd

http://www.shadowgraphquarterly.com/shadowgraph-quarterly-winter-2015/shaindel-beers/

Essays by and about Shaindel:

Creep”: Thoughts on Abuse and Survival » Real Pants

Hundreds of Dollars | i believe you | it’s not your fault

Hot Teachers, Gaslighting, and Sexual Abuse in Academia: Reflecting on Essays by Shaindel Beers by Leslie Salas

https://thegloriasirens.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/hot-teachers-gaslighting-and-sexual-abuse-in-academia-reflecting-on-essays-by-shaindel-beers/

Hear Shaindel read:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1wdbxsNAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2tucUP8yYI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-ETvj3LeE

 

 

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Now that all my grades are in!

12/9/2015

Up to my eyes in grading for the end of the semester. Make art about a teacher, or teaching.

12/10/2015

Doing an Interview Skills Consultation today. Make art involving questions and answers.

12/11/2015

Last day of grading, semester ending. Make art about something coming to an end.

12/12/2015

Had the most amazing conversation last night, with two young men servin in the Army, both scheduled for deployment in the next few months. One of the young men openly talked about the role faith plays in his life. He spoke with deep compassion of even the enemy he has trained to engage, and I was humbled and awed at how much grace and humanity these young warriors show. Make art about warriors.

12/13/2015

Make art about decompressing.

de·com·press

(dē′kəm-prĕs′)

v. de·com·pressed, de·com·press·ing, de·com·press·es

v.tr.

1. To relieve of pressure or compression.

2. To bring (a person exposed to conditions of increased pressure) gradually back to normal atmospheric pressure.

v.intr.

1. To adjust to normal atmospheric conditions after being exposed to increased pressure.

2. Informal To relax: decompressed after 12 hours of driving.

 

Happy Creating!

Sometimes the Prompt Comes to an End

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Last day of grading, semester ending. Make art about something coming to an end.
 
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Friday Call For Submissions Love! TulipTree Review

TulipTree Review

Stories That Need To Be Told

TULIPTREE REVIEW is a quarterly print literary journal accepting submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. There is no reading fee and authors whose works are accepted will receive free subscriptions. For guidelines and contact information, visit www.tuliptreepub.com.

GENERAL SUBMISSIONS

No Reading Fee

You can submit your work at any time for free if you would like to be considered for publication in the TulipTree Review.

How It Works

General submissions are not eligible for cash prizes. If your work is selected for publication in TulipTree Review, you will receive a one-year subscription toTulipTree Review.

How to Format Your Submission

  • Entries should be in Microsoft Word-compatible or PDF format and sent as an attachment to an email (not in the body of the email).
  • Fiction and nonfiction entries should be double-spaced.
  • Poetry format is open; for general submissions please put all of the poems in one document.

INCLUDE YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION

In the body of your email…

  • Include your name, mailing address, and title(s) of the work(s) you are submitting.
  • Include a bio that will appear with your work if it’s published.
  • Also, because we are usually accepting submissions for various anthologies as well as the journal, please indicate in the subject or body that your submission is for TulipTree Review.

​On your submission…

  • Include your name, mailing address, email address, and title of the work on the first page.

Word Limits

There are no word limits (min. or max.) for general submissions.

Legal Stuff

By submitting your work, you are stating and agreeing that (1) the work is your own original work, (2) no one else owns the rights to publish said work, and (3) you are granting TulipTree Publishing, LLC (TulipTree) the right to publish said work, unless you withdraw your work prior to TulipTree’s decision to publish.

TulipTree does not retain rights to your work after we publish it. If it is published again we ask only for an acknowledgment in the new publication (e.g., “previously published in TulipTree Review,” etc.).

How to Submit

Email general submissions to submissions@tuliptreepub.com.

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