in·tu·i·tion
ˌint(y)o͞oˈiSH(ə)n/
noun
1 the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning.
“we shall allow our intuition to guide us”
2 a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning.
“your insights and intuitions as a native speaker are positively sought”
Make art about intuition, about using intuition, about what is revealed or understood intuitively.
15 December 2016
Dreamt I was rescuing babies from some catastrophe.
Make art about rescue, about rescuing, about being rescued.
Mine Rescue by Fletcher Martin
Loud Zoo is Looking for Inspiration!
Deadline: December 31, 2016
We need it now more than ever. Please send art in any medium (video, audio, and multimedia welcome!), fiction of any genre, poetry, nonfiction, and beyond. Send pieces with people standing up for one another, standing up to injustices. We want people banding together in the face of mania and terror, holding strong and rising up against oppressors and regressions. From the hyper-real to the experimental and surreal, show us humanity. Help inspire people to take their own stands in their own communities and lives.
Website: http://www.bedlampublishing.com/loudzoo.html
Detailed guidelines: www.bedlampublishing.com/submissions.html.
13 December 2016
That Lil Red Car is headed into the shop this morning. I’m now marooned in my lil house 🙂 It’s all good.
Make art about being stranded.
14 December 2016
The pups and I wandered through this this morning.
Make art about walking in a fog.
4 December 2016
Make art about nothing going as you planned.
5 December 2016
Make art about driving in the dark.
6 December 2016
Make art about standing up for yourself.
7 December 2016
Make art about corruption, about calling out corruption.
8 December 2016
Make art about needing silence, about the recharge, rebirth, renewal of strength to be found a a period of silence.
9 December 2016
Make art about needing to scream, about the release, the energy, the power, to be found in a good primal scream.
10 December 2016
Make art about hospitals, about being in the hospital.
11 December 2016
Make art about drawing strength from the energy and creativity and spontaneity of young people.
12 December 2016
Make art about coming to terms with the inevitability of death.
This week’s recommendation is a collection, a vital gathering of voices that should be in every poet’s library, in every classroom where we talk poetry: Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin,compiled by Phil Cushway and edited by Michael Warr.
“This stunning work illuminates today’s black experience through the voices of our most transformative and powerful African American poets.
Included in this extraordinary volume are the poems of 43 of America’s most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize–winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other luminaries such as Elizabeth Alexander, Ishmael Reed, and Sonia Sanchez. Included are poems such as “No Wound of Exit” by Patricia Smith, “We Are Not Responsible” by Harryette Mullen, and “Poem for My Father” by Quincy Troupe. Each is accompanied by a photograph of the poet along with a first-person biography. The anthology also contains personal essays on race such as “The Talk” by Jeannine Amber and works by Harry Belafonte, Amiri Baraka, and The Reverend Dr. William Barber II, architect of the Moral Mondays movement, as well as images and iconic political posters of the Black Lives Matter movement, Malcolm X, and the Black Panther Party. Taken together, Of Poetry and Protest gives voice to the current conversation about race in America while also providing historical and cultural context. It serves as an excellent introduction to African American poetry and is a must-have for every reader committed to social justice and racial harmony.”
Buy Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin Here
More on this collection online
Of Poetry and Protest in Poets & Writers
Michael Warr on The Morning Mixtape discussing Of Poetry and Protest
Of Poetry and Protest Readings
2 December 2016
De·fi·ance (dəˈfīəns/) noun
open resistance; bold disobedience.
“the demonstration was held in defiance of official warnings”
Make art about acts of defiance, small or large.
3 December 2016
Making new stocking for our family with remnants of late 40s-early 50s vintage fabric.
Make art about remaking something old into something new.
1 December 2016
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver’s order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.
Make art inspired by this, about doing what’s right.
NEGATIVE CAPABILITY PRESS wants to know your secrets! Please send your secrets as prose, poetry, flash-fiction, non-fiction, and hybrid work for this special edition of the journal.
Deadline January 15, 2017.
Please visit the Submittable page and choose Literature or Artwork to view the specific submission guidelines. https://negativecapability.submittable.com/submit/
30 November 2016
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I’m two, and both keep their distance”-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Make art about restlessness, about disquiet.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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