Sometimes the Day Is the Poem <3
“As a man thinketh in his heart so is he
whatever you dwelling on is the reality that you’re creating”
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Sick for a Week Prompt Catch-Up! 7 New Prompts!
21 October 2017
Make art about feeling like you can’t speak, about not saying things you need to say, about self-silencing.
22 October 2017
Make art about being new to language, a child learning language.
23 October 2017
Make art about the first naming of things.
24 October 2017
Make art about a fever.
25 October 2017
Make art about long sleep.
26 October 2017
Make art about seeing the web.
27 October 2017
Make art about seeing the doctor.
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
Love y’all.
Mary
Because I Needed to Stand in the Light <3
The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished. -Ming-Dao Deng
Sometimes the Prompt Shifts and Flows
Daily Prompt
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein
Make art with deliberate shifts in time.
Sometimes the Prompt Makes You Look Twice
Daily Prompt
Rewatching my beloved X-Files 🙂
Make art about seeing something new the second time you look.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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