Daily Prompt Love <3 Through the Air
11 September 2019
Had the most amazing flying dream, soaring and swooping high above the most beautiful countryside.
Make art about flying, or a flying dream.
Posts tagged ‘freedom’
Daily Prompt Love <3 Oh So Free
8 September 2019
Make art about what frees you, about what makes you feel most free.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Blocking
26 July 2019
Make art about obstruction, about obstructing something, or about being obstructed.
Image by Brigitte Werner from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 On Citizenship
4 July 2019
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.” ―
Make art about this tension, about the moral choice versus the political choice.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Sacrifice
27 May 2019
Make art about sacrifice.
Image by Filip Dukanic from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 Caged
27 March 2019
Make art about being caged, about feeling caged, about escaping the cage.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Breaking Free & Peace
4 November 2017
Make art about breaking out, breaking free.
5 November 2017
Make art about what peace means to you.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Doing What's Right
1 December 2016
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver’s order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.
Make art inspired by this, about doing what’s right.
Must Read–and Must See–Monday: Poetry of Witness
Something a little different this week: recommending a documentary, Poetry of Witness. Poetry of Witness is a 2015 documentary film directed by Billy Tooma and Anthony Cirilo about the lives of six contemporary poets who have lived through, and survived, extremities such as war, torture, exile, and repression, using poetry to preserve their memories.It debuted October 16, 2015 at the Buffalo International Film Festival.
The film documents the struggle of six contemporary poets who have faced the duress of war, exile, and human rights violations to give voice to their experiences while wrestling with the complex moral quandaries of artistic production, memory, and trauma. The poets: Carolyn Forché (Salvadoran Civil War), Saghi Ghahraman (Iranian Revolution), Fady Joudah (Doctors Without Borders), Claudia Serea (Socialist Republic of Romania), Mario Susko (Bosnian War), and Bruce Weigl (Vietnam War) offer first-person accounts of how their experiences as soldier, activist, doctor, and survivor imprint their poetry as evidence of those conflicts, rather than as representations of them.
Buy Poetry of Witness: The Documentary
A Couple of Suggested Anthologies (there are so many more…)
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
Award winning poet Carolyn Forché spent 13 years compiling Against Forgetting: 20th Century Poetry of Witness. It is an exhaustive and illuminating work of breadth, beauty, wisdom and tragedy.
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500 – 2001
More about the Poetry of Witness
Anthony Cirilo Talks about Poetry of Witness
Carolyn Forché talks about the poetry of witness
Poet Carolyn Forché gathers 500 years of suffering in new anthology
More About Against Forgetting at3Generations
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Mary
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