Sometimes the Prompt Is a Place to Take Refuge <3
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“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm.”~Bob Dylan
Make art about seeking refuge, taking shelter, offering shelter.
Posts tagged ‘Inspiration’
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Double Call from Hofstra
Hofstra University Has Two Forums for Your Literary Work
Submissions accepted year-round.
Submissions for AMP: Always Electric (a digital literary site) are accepted in poetry, short prose, innovative and cross-genre texts, video poems and literary videos. AMP is a project of the Hofstra University Digital Research Center and is co-sponsored by the MFA program and the Department of English. amp.hofstradrc.org
Windmill: The Hofstra Journal of Literature & Art accepts both print and digital submissions including fiction, creative nonfiction, art and photography, and poetry. Our inaugural issue will be published in January 2017. Windmill is a joint project of Hofstra University’s MFA in Creative Writing and BA in English/Publishing Studies. hofstrawindmill.com
Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Storms, and Shrines, and What We Can Learn <3
10/4/2016
I grew up in Hurricane Alley, eastern North Carolina, so the preparation for these big storms is something I learned early. Hurricane Matthew has ripped through Haiti, and is on his way to the US East Coast. All my provisions are laid in, flashlights and emergency equipment in place and ready, and I’ve battened down as much as I can. But sometimes Mama Nature’s just too big and unpredictable for any kind of preparation.
Make art about preparing the best you can.
10/5/2016
Thinking a lot today about all the ways people find their way to, or demonstrate faith. Took me immediately to one of my top three favorite songs, The Mountain, by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer.
Excerpted Lyrics by Dave Carter
Some build temples and some find altars,
some come in tall hats and robes spun fine.
Some in rags, some in gemstone halters,
some push the pegs back in line.
I see the mountain, the mountain comes to me,
I see the mountain and that is all I see.
Make art about temples or altars or shrines, faith in some unexpected way.
10/6/2016
Road Angel Andrea at Walmart today told me about her grandmama teaching her to sew, first by making curtains, long straight hems, she said, over and over again, summer curtains, winter curtains with their heavy lining. She said her grandmama was patient but tough, making her tear out crooked stitches, and try again til she got it right. “I learned to take my time,” she said. “I learned to take my time, look ahead of the foot, and how a pair of curtains can make all the difference in a room.”
Make art about curtains. Or about what you learned from an elder.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Leaves, & Autumn, & Just Going From Here
10/1/2016
Walking in these West Virginia mountains 🙂
“The falling leaves, all over the forest, are protecting the roots of my plants. Only look at what is to be seen, and you will have garden enough, without deepening the soil in your yard. We have only to elevate our view a little to see the whole forest as a garden.” ~Thoreau
Make art about ‘garden enough.’
10/2/2016
Driving back from WV, I stopped for gas, and Road Angel Louise tells me her story of trying to recover from the recent flooding, what it’s like to lose so much. “Just go from here, I reckon,” she said.
Make art about rebounding from tragedy, about how we ‘just go from here.’
10/3/2016
Dreamt someone I love brought me apples, Honey Crisp and Red Delicious, Granny Smith and Winesap, even a couple of Arkansas Black. He sliced one with his sharp knife, and smiling, said, Here you go, Missy. A taste of what’s to come.
Make art about the taste of autumn. Or about what’s to come.
Monday Must Read! Pattiann Rogers: Holy Heathen Rhapsody
The most recent book from one of my always favorite poets, Pattiann Rogers.
Ms. Rogers has published eleven books of poetry; two book-length essay collections, The Dream of the Marsh Wren and The Grand Array; and A Covenant of Seasons, poems and monotypes, in collaboration with Joellyn Duesberry. She is the recipient of two NEA grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award for poetry. She lives in Colorado.
Read the title poem here in American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/holy-heathen-rhapsody
Buy Holy Heathen Rhapsody
https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Heathen-Rhapsody-Penguin-Poets/dp/0143123882
Praise for Holy Heathen Rhapsody
“I believe Pattiann Rogers walks the world at night when we are sleeping. Her poems are translations of our dreaming life—what we know to be true but fail to remember. We read her words, sentence by sentence, image by image, and return to all that is beautiful, mysterious, and erotic.”
—Terry Tempest Williams
“Pattiann Rogers is a visionary of reality, perceiving the material world with such intensity of response that impulse, intention, meaning, interconnections beyond the skin of appearance are revealed. Her language, unmarred by clichés, springs up out of a sense of how various and endlessly amazing are the forms of life and the human ability to notice them.”
—Denise Levertov
“How the densely detailed, thickly textured, imaged stanzas of Pattiann Rogers result in so much light-as-air wonderment is surely one of the greater questions—one of the greater magics—of contemporary poetry. But however it happens, we must be thankful—for both the science text and the psalter of her work, for both the physical abundance and for the spirit flimmering over it.”
—Albert Goldbarth
Read More from Ms. Rogers Online
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/pattiann-rogers#about
http://www.terrain.org/2014/poetry/two-poems-by-pattiann-rogers/
https://orionmagazine.org/poetry/pattiann-rogers-poem/
https://imagejournal.org/article/speak-rain/
Interviews
http://www.missourireview.com/anthology/interview-with-pattiann-rogers
http://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_pattiann_rogers?cmnt_all=1
Ms. Rogers on Merging Science and Poetry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gicNcqk08Pk
http://www.cennamology.com/home/pattiann-rogers-review-merging-poetry-science-and-philosophy
Reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBelOceSMA
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt Love <3 Faith v. Fear
9/30/2016
Make art about the struggle between faith and fear, or about faith overcoming fear.
Before I Hit the Road Call for Submissions Love <3 Otis Nebula
Otis Nebula Now Open to Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
Otis Nebula is now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, video, and hybrid forms. To get a sense of what we’re looking for, please read an issue, available for free online.
Website: http://www.otisnebula.com/otisnebula/Home.html
Submission details: www.otisnebula.com/otisnebula/contribute.html.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3
7/16/2016
“Late, I have come to a parched land/doubting my gift, if gift I have,/the inspiration of water”~Dannie Abse
Make art about the inspiration of water.
7/17/2016
“Poor dear son, though you were not my son, I felt to love you as a son, what short time I saw you sick & dying here—“~Walt Whitman (letter to Erastus Haskell’s parents)
Make art about how they are all our sons.
7/18/2016
“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.”~Mother Teresa
Make art about the open heart.
Hundreds of Prompts! Right Here! :-)
Finally got around to getting this website updated 🙂
Including all those Daily Prompts! Right here!
Check em out and get your creativity flowing!
Mary Carroll-Hackett Daily Prompts!
We’re Almost There! Prompts, Prompts, & More Prompts!
Just realized this morning that come Friday, I’ll officially reach ONE YEAR of this Daily Prompt Madness! So much fun! Hope you’ve enjoyed it too! Git that creativity on, y’all!
Check out the Daily Prompt Big List here! And please share!
The more beautiful art we put into this crazy world, the better!
https://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/
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