26 July 2016
“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.” ― Edith Wharton
Make art about a window opening.
27 July 2016
“Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.”―Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Make art about what you thirst for.
28 July 2016
Make art about falling in Love with the world, even—especially–when it seems to be at its most heartbreaking, when it seems too difficult to Love.
24 July 2016
Liminal (adj.)
“of or pertaining to a threshold,” 1884, from Latin limen “threshold, cross-piece, sill” (see limit (n.)) + -al (1). Related: Liminality.
Definition: occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.
Make art about being on a threshold, being in a liminal space.
25 July 2016
“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.”~John Donne
Make art about being your own palace, or about the world as a jail.
Meet Monty Campbell Jr, author of Train through the Video Game (Shabda Press) and A Large Dent in the Moon(Foothills). Monty is a member of the Cayuga Tribe of the Six Nations. He grew up in and around Gowanda, NY, the Cattaraugus Reservation and Rochester, NY’s inner city. His work is also included in the indigenous poets anthology, I was Indian (FootHills Publishing, 2009) and Simpatico, On the Road (Simpatico, 2009).
Buy A Large Dent in the Moon!
http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2011/id21.htm
Praise for A Large Dent in the Moon
Erupting from the junkyards, dead eyed alleys and psycho-babble of our raped and compromised Turtle Island, Monty Campbell, Jr., incandescently stands for truth in all its flawed magnificence. A Large Dent in the Moon is a clarion call to non-Indians and Indians alike to get it together before we drown in a tsunami of exploitation, lies and mediocrity. Monty Campbell is a wichasha wakan for our times. I’ve had the great fortune of reading through his book three times now and each time I was left shattered, awed and breathless. May these poems be the first of many such incantations.~Paul Hapenny
This first book by Monty Campbell, Jr. makes a large dent, indeed. Careening around every corner the reader finds startling metaphors, precision line-breaks, and enough poetic arsenal to supply NASA’s next mission. Monty’s “music slides / through the genetic / garbage of a / Rochester alley…” His poems are Manifestos / written on / cell phones / portraits of / everyday / struggle” and “Rez Photos” where “all the skin is brown, / weighed / and forgiven…” These poems are alternately sensual, despairing, angry, hopeful, but always crafted with love out of three decades of survival on the real side of America’s tracks. If Lou Reed is correct that it takes a “Busload of Faith to get by,” here it is, achieving lift-off.~John Roche
From the Introduction:
I think that never have I read work by an indigenous writer in which so much is said about the beauty of Earth filtered through palimpsest-images of city, ghost streets, train tracks, and litter forced upon Turtle Island and our planet altogether. It is beauty conveyed through loss. I literally hurt when I read Monty’s poetry. Yet, as I state in my blurb, Monty’s poems have led me to understand something about love which I never understood before. When you read this book, I trust you will get why I cannot paraphrase any poems herein; doing so would strip the tropes, deep song, and enfolding spaces of their haunting realness, evocations and dreamscapes (if not nightmare-scapes). It would do dishonor to that love.~Susan Deer Cloud
Read More From Monty Online
http://www.alestlelive.com/lifestyles/article_da20c15c-2faa-11e3-9855-0019bb30f31a.html
https://spaceslitmag.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/writers-reading-monty-campbell-jr/
http://www.amerinda.org/talkingstick/15-2/
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
23 July 2016
Reading one of my favorite writers this morning, Linda Hogan. If only we all could listen in the miraculous way she does.
“When the body wishes to speak, she will”~Linda Hogan
Make art about what the body has to say.
7/19/2016
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”~John Kennedy
Make art about revolution.
7/20/2016
When the world becomes too much, I make things, usually for other people. So this week I’m sewing old fashioned cloth dolls to send to the children’s unit at the Massey Cancer Center.
Make art about when the world becomes too much.
7/21/2016
In the way I was taught, there are four fundamental types of dreams: waking life dreams; visitation dreams; teaching dreams; and traveling dreams.
Make art about one of these types of dreams.
Get that creativity flowing!
https://marycarrollhackett.com/writing-prompts/
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.
15 July 2016
“Art is a wound turned into light.”~Georges Braque
Make art about the wound, about transforming pain into light.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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