Daily Prompt Love <3 Thanks and Love to the Talented and Generous Teri Lee Kline
16 June 2017
Make art inspired by a song that made you cry, that brought you to real tears.
Posts tagged ‘Love Is What Matters’
Some Call for Submissions Love <3 Elsewhere: Flash Fiction, Prose Poetry,
elsewhere is an online magazine that publishes every two months, publishing prose poetry, flash fiction and non-fiction.
From the elsewhere website:
elsewhere cares only about the line / no line. We want short prose works (flash fiction, prose poetry, nonfiction) that cross, blur, and/or mutilate genre. We publish six writers and one photo quarterly. Give us your homeless, your animals, your lunch money: we’re hungry.
Prose Poetry
up to 3 pieces of unlineated prose poetry, any length. up to two essays in a single document, each less than 1,000 words.
Flash Fiction
up to two stories in a single document, each less than 1,000 words.
Nonfiction
up to two essays in a single document, each less than 1,000 words.
Photography
submit up to 3 photographs for consideration as a cover image in JPG or PNG format. landscape orientation required, original size 3000px x 1700px minimum.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 All About Some Love and Joy–Gotta Be, In These Dark Days
14 June 2017
Make art about ways of finding (re-finding) your joy.
15 June 2017
Make art about taking a risk on Love.
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 Carnivals, Weeds, and a Fistful of Stars
10 June 2017
Accompanied my daughter and son-in-law today for that GrandPerson’s first trip to a fair.
Make art inspired by a fair, or carnival.
11 June 2017
Traveling on back roads today, my favorite way to get anywhere.
Make art about back roads, country lanes, two-lane blacktops cutting through nothing but countryside.
12 June 2017
Grading and gardening day.
Make art about pulling weeds, about weeding things out.
13 June 2017
Dreamt someone I love brought me a gift.
Make art about a fistful of stars.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Together We Can
9 June 2017
I’m so excited! Going to be entering into a new creative collaboration with a dear friend.
Make art about working with others, about the benefits of collaboration.
Daily Prompt Love <3 To Bear Witness
8 June 2017
bear witness
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to show that something exists or is true —+ to His success bears witness to the value of hard work. Rising ticket sales bear witness to the band’s popularity.
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formal : to make a statement saying that one saw or knows something asked to bear witness to the facts She was asked to bear witness at the trial.
Make art about what it means to bear witness.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Yes, Please
7 June 2017
Feeling my Southern mama at my shoulder.
Make art about manners, having them, learning them, lacking them, using them in difficult situations.
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up<3 Locks and Space
4 June 2017
Make art about locks, locking things in, locking things out, unlocking locks.
5 June 2017
Something I’m still learning, still working on.
Make art about making space for the unknown, the yet to come.
Monday Must Read! Lauren K. Alleyne: Difficult Fruit
What a beautiful read this week!
Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of Difficult Fruit (Peepal Tree Press, 2014). She holds an MFA in Poetry and a graduate certificate in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Cornell University, and an MA in English and Creative Writing from Iowa State University. Alleyne’s fiction, non-fiction, interviews, and poetry have been widely published in journals and anthologies such as Women’s Studies Quarterly, Guernica, The Caribbean Writer, Black Arts Quarterly, The Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gathering Ground, and Growing Up Girl, among others. Her work has earned several honors and awards, most recently the Picador Guest Professorship in Literature at the University of Leipzig, Germany, a 2014 Iowa Arts Council Fellowship, and first place in the 2016 Split This Rock Poetry Contest. Alleyne is a Cave Canem graduate, and is originally from Trinidad and Tobago. She currently works at James Madison University as Assistant Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and an Associate Professor of English.
Buy Lauren’s Beautiful Book Here!
Praise for Difficult Fruit
Lauren Alleyne’s voice is a revelatory and formidable fusion of irrepressible music and uncompromising craft. Like snippets of cinema, these poems arrest the senses and challenge what’s known. Every door this exceptional work opens opens onto a larger light.—Patricia Smith
To go back “is a verb conjugated in dreams,” Lauren Alleyne writes in her debut volume Difficult Fruit, inscribing the governing mystery of this work, the secret knowledge of the dead. In anaphoric bursts of incantatory disclosure, in ghazals of love and survival, eros and the infinite, she does, indeed, go back, past all griefs and illuminations, “to the song beneath the song.” There is uncommon spiritual knowledge here as well as political discernment. There is much to learn while accompanying Alleyne on her “raft of language,” through a troubled world and an imagined heaven, to the place “from which comes all singing.” I have gone with her and would do so again and again.—Carolyn Forché
Difficult Fruit is a book I wish there were no need for. But need there is; and Alleyne delivers poems of loss and grief and, thankfully, hope. “Meaning is the closest we get to salvation,/which is to say the word changes nothing/–it does not unmake the rivers,” she writes. But addressing the ages in ghazal and crown and free verse forms, she reminds us, in the “flaming sentence” that in one’s life, “it is in the raft of language we begin our escape.”—Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
More From Lauren Online
http://www.laurenkalleyne.com/work.html
http://www.gwarlingo.com/2014/the-sunday-poem-lauren-k-alleynes-difficult-fruit/
https://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/689-lauren-k-alleyne-poetry
http://www.2river.org/2RView/10_4/poems/alleyne.html
http://www.thegriefdiaries.org/poetry-by-lauren-k-alleyne/
http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/crb-archive/24-november-2010/two-poems/
http://www.thethepoetry.com/2013/02/poem-of-the-week-lauren-k-alleyne/
http://www.thefeministwire.com/2015/09/poetry-madame-x-by-lauren-k-alleyne/
Hear Lauren Read!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8VfxSkn3dc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax3nmQXD0YQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E5PvO_Lkcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70DVGoDzRlI
Wonderful work!
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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