Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Touch
20 March 2020
Make art inspired by the following quote.
“Touch has memory.”– John Keats
Posts tagged ‘love letters’
Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Emergence
19 March 2020
The jonquils in my yard have emerged, blooming like glory. I was struck while outside this morning, this first day of spring, with a kind of surreal awe at the beautiful constancy of this mother planet.
Even as we’re surrounded with fear or panic, which as a species we’ve seen again and again over millennia–famine, war, plague 😦 — even in the darkest days, there is the arrival of beauty.
Make art about what’s emerging.
Quarantine Prompt a Day <3 Feeding
18 March 2020
Nourish the body. Feed the soul.
Thinking on all the things that fed me these last few days. Yes, the meals shared with my son, but also my brother-man Eric in West Virginia, with his guitar, serenading the world with an Irish song, the silly memes my sister Adaire and I sent back and forth to each other, my young alum Katlyn and her friend selflessly working to collect donations for families and kids in need in quarantine, my current students excitedly discussing their short stories and poems in our online class, my friend Brigid writing a new comic who shared the pages with me, the sound of my friend Lynne’s laughter through the phone, my old dog sleeping on his purple pillow, my silly cat Moco biting my elbow because I was ignoring him, the humming of the bees across the burgeoning green in my yard, the multitude of good people out there doing good work teaching, sharing, cooking, donating–coping, all of them, in beautiful, humane, and community-minded ways.
So much, in the midst of this fear, to feed the soul.
Make art about one thing recently that fed your soul.
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 About Place–Themed Issue: Infinite Country: Deepening Our Connection to Place, Culture, and One Another
About Place Journal Call for Submissions: Infinite Country
Deadline: August 1, 2019
Each issue of About Place Journal, the arts publication of the Black Earth Institute, focuses on a specific theme. From 6/1 to 8/1 they’ll be accepting submissions for their Fall 2019 issue Infinite Country: Deepening Our Connection to Place, Culture and One Another.
“Our mission: to have art address the causes of spirit, earth, and society; to protect the earth; and to build a more just and interconnected world. We publish prose, poetry, visual art, photography, video, and music which fit the current theme.”
More about this theme and submission guidelines: aboutplacejournal.org/submissions/
Daily Prompt Love <3 Breaks, and Breaks
12 June 2019
“What shall I do with all this heartache?:–Joy Harjo
Make art about unspeakable heartache.
Image by Kevin McIver from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 Absolution
20 April 2019
Make art about or write a letter to someone you need to forgive.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Place
10 April 2019
Make art about a place abandoned, about the spirit of an old place, about what the land remembers.
Gardi, GA. Photo by John Eaton
30 New Prompts to Celebrate National Poetry Month! Join Us on Facebook!
Tomorrow! April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate, I’ve created and posted 30 new prompts to inspire and incite! The prompts will work for fiction or nonfiction too!
Join us in the Better-Than-Black-Friday Writing Group, and let’s get that spring write on! ❤
Join us HERE!
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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