"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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Friday Call for Submissions Love: Mary: A Journal of New Writing–Only 3 Days Left to Submit!

MARY: A Journal of New Writing is looking for poetry, fiction, and non-fiction submissions for our special themed Spring 2017 Issue: Art as Activism and Resistance!
 
FICTION and NONFICTION submissions should be no more than 15 pages in standard 12-point font, double-spaced format (unless otherwise structured for craft purposes).
POETRY submissions should contain no more than 5 poems or 10 pages per submission. All work must be previously unpublished.
 
All submissions will be considered for our Editors’ Prize.
 
Deadline to submit is March 20th.
submit
 

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Daily Prompt Love for St. Paddy’s Day <3

17 March 2017

Make art about an immigrant story, about the realities, about how America was built on the very backs of the immigrants they revile. 

no_irish

 

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Daily Prompt Love <3

15 March 2017

Make art about restlessness.

restlessness Nin

16 March 2017

Make art about truth and lies. 

Lies-and-Truth

 

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Sometimes the Day is the Poem, and the Prayer <3

 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Yes and No

14 March 2017

“One person saying Yes Yes and another person saying No No, that’s tension.”-Betsy Cox

Make a list of all the things you’d like to say No to, then make a list of everything you’d like to say Yes to. Make art inspired from these lists. 

Yes and No

 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Judge Not

13 March 2017

I unfriended someone this morning on social media, a woman who leads with her “I’m a Christian” banner, but who daily and consistently posts things that are disparaging to others, about people and groups of people with whom I know personally she has little actual experience. She’s older, and has limited life experience, so I had alternately either ignored her ignorance or had tried, gently, to share my own experiences with the people she judged. Her fear, it seems, runs too deep. But this morning, as she posted multiple things mocking and denigrating millennials, I was just done.

Am I judging her? Maybe. I’ll think on that. Pray on it too. But for now, her persistent fear and judgment of people about whom she is ignorant are not something I want in my life every day. 

Make art about judging, about judging through ignorance, or–be brave!–educate yourself on someone you have previously judged. 

dont-judge

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Monday Must Read: Joel Peckham, God’s Bicycle

joel peckhamJoel Peckham is a scholar, essayist and poet who has published a book of essays, two books of poetry, and two chapbooks His work has appeared in many literary and academic journals including The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, The Black Warrior Review, Riverteeth, The North American Review and American Literature Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Regional Literature and Creative Writing at Marshall University.

“A Chevy up on blocks is only an eyesore
to the faithless.”-from “Husks”

In GOD’S BICYCLE, Joel Peckham’s fifth collection of poetry, he offers a spiritual road mix for 21st-century America. In poems that travel from the heartland through Appalachia to New England, he sings a song crafted from his own strange brew of off-kilter, irreverent psalms, prayers, hymns, aubades, and elegies in praise and homage to a fragmented but beautiful landscape and people. Drawing as much from rockabilly as Whitman, these poems are always intense and often exuberant, even in their struggle for the kind of hope that can “rise green and leafy from a bitter soil.”

Joel’s Website

Buy Joel’s Beautiful Books

God’s Bicycle

Body Memory

Resisting Elegy

Why Not Take All of Me

The Heat of What Comes

 

Read More from Joel Online

 

Joel on Youtube

Interview 

Reading 

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Getting Lost, and Finding Home

11 March 2017

Spent the day lost in a book. 

Make art about being lost in a good way.

lost good way

12 March 2017

Dreamt a future conversation with my grandson, where we talked about what it meant to create home wherever you are, that our true home is what we carry inside us, from our experiences, from the ancestors. He nodded solemnly, as if he already knew this. 

Make art about where home is, or how we create home. 

home heart ancestors

 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Hello From the Other Side

10 March 2017

Make art about messages from the other side.

other side

 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Two Today <3 On Power, and Violence

8 March 2017

Make art about collective power. 

collective

9 March 2017

Make art about the violence of poverty. 

poverty of violence

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