"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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Sometimes the Prompt Goes On and On

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“When the singer’s gone Let the song go on”~Art Garfunkle
 
Make art about the persistence of Love.
 
#writingprompt #art #fiction #nonfiction #wordsmatter #loveneverends

Got Book? Special Thursday Call for Submissions! Main Street Rag

Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award

Deadline: February 1, 2016
Award: $1,200, publication, and contributor copies
Fee: $25

Send between 48 and 84 pages of poetry. No restriction on content style or subject. We’re looking for the best manuscript.

Complete Guidelines here! 

http://03c9c48.netsolhost.com/WordPress/contests/the-main-street-rag-poetry-book-award/

Sometimes the Prompt is Unsung

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“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell

Make art about heroism, about heroes.

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Sometimes the Prompt is on Fire

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“When born you inherit what’s burning.”~Liam Rector Tattooed on my right arm. Considering the courage of the activists at University of Missouri.

Make art about protest.

 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up!

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November 7

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”~ Joseph Campbell

Make art about braving the darkness. 

November 8

Wrote a poem today called “The List of Dangers.”

Make art about an unexpected form of danger. 

November 9

Keep hearin the song Little Boxes this morning. Most people now know it as the theme song for the TV show Weeds, but it originally was recorded in 1961 by American folk artist Malvina Reynolds. 

Make art inspired by little boxes. 

Monday Must Read! Christine Stoddard: The Children of Jackson Ward

christine stoddardThis week meet Christine Stoddard, a Salvadoran-Scottish-American writer and artist. In 2014, Folio Magazine named her one of the media industry’s top 20 visionaries in their 20s for starting Quail Bell Magazine. She also is a Puffin Foundation national emerging artist. She has edited two anthologies for Quail Bell Magazine, in addition to co-authoring Images of America: Richmond Cemeteries and directing a documentary on Edgar Allan Poe.

Currently, she is completing her book, Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia, for The History Press. Christine’s work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, So to Speak, The New York Transit Museum, Bustle, Yellow Chair Review, the Poe Museum, local PBS stations, and beyond.

In early 2016, Christine will be participating in Tupelo Press’ 30/30 Project and completing a writing residency at Sundress Academy for the Arts.

Learn more about her at www.wordsmithchristine.com

More from Christine online!

The Children of Jackson Ward, an art project with a social justice perspective. http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/about/the-children-of-jackson-ward-manuscript

YesPoetry

http://yespoetry.com/post/108735306281/photo-poetry-christine-stoddard

Brooklyn Quarterly

http://brooklynquarterly.org/tbq-artist-series-christine-stoddard/

The Poet Time

http://thepoettime.com/

Fourth and Sycamore

http://fourthandsycamore.com/2015/09/14/my-nightingale-a-poem-by-christine-stoddard/

 

Video

The Persistence of Poe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eKwn5D8Vg

Everyday Seeing (from The Children of Jackson Ward)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRWdDriov4

Nine Flights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWVgBHla2Bk

Chalk Poetry

https://vimeo.com/21420381

Before Morning Sobers

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

Another New Journal Seeking Submissions for Inaugural Issue: Courtship of Winds!

The Courtship Of Winds

Submissions accepted year-round.

“It goes without saying that we are looking to publish the best work. For details regarding submissions and a sense of the editorial direction of The Courtship of Winds go towww.thecourtshipofwinds.org.

We are interested in publishing “unknowns,” as well as well-established writers. A writer who has published absolutely nothing will be read the same way as a prize-winning “name” writer. Work that does something not seen before or, more to the point, makes us see differently—call it avant-garde, experimental, or what you like—is always welcome.”

 

Sometimes the Prompt is What the Heart Remembers

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“I know I’ve loved you before.”~Melissa Etheridge

Make art about other lives, about remembering Love.

Sometimes the Prompt Just Makes Good Sense

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“After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things”~Wallace Stevens
 
Make art about the practicality of autumn.
 
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #wordsmatter
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Sometimes the Prompt Really Hurts My Heart

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Spent the day workin on a meal planning/shopping/cooking tutorial for some of my students who struggle with making their food dollars stretch.

In 2014:

46.7 million people (14.8 percent) were in poverty.
15.5 million (21.1 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty.
4.6 million (10 percent) seniors 65 and older were in poverty.
The overall poverty rate according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure is 15.3 percent, as compared with the official poverty rate of 14.8 percent.[ii]
Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure, there are 48.4 million people living in poverty, nearly 2 million more than are represented by the official poverty measure (46.7 million).

48.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 32.8 million adults and 15.3 million children.

And this doesn’t even begin to touch the problems of global hunger.

Make art about literal, physical, hunger.

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