Daily Prompt
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” A. Einstein
Make art about intuition, about how intuition whispers, about listening to it, or about what happens if we don’t.
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Great conversation thread yesterday started by the amazing poet and person Karen Craigo on Facebook regarding what we can do all to support poetry and other poets. Got me thinking about how my mama always quoted John Donne, his “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions,” saying “No man is an island.”
Make art about community, abut community-building, about our need for community.
Monday Must Read! Rachel Heimowitz: What the Light Reveals
This week meet Rachel Heimowitz, the author of the chapbook, What the Light Reveals (Tebot Bach Press, 2014.) Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Spillway, Crab Orchard Review, and Prairie Schooner and she has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. She is currently the editor of arc-24, the literary journal of The Israel Association of Writers in English and she is due to receive her MFA from Pacific University in Spring 2015.
Visit Rachel’s Website
http://www.rachelheimowitz.com/#!bio/c1ktj
Buy Rachel’s book!
Tebot Bach Press: http://www.tebotbach.org/publication.html#lightreveals
Praise for What the Light Reveals
In poem after vivid poem, Rachel Heimowitz “gather[s] what is holy/into [her] palms,” using words and “the light between words” to describe life in contemporary Israel—fraught with danger and uncertainty as well as joy and vision. The precise music of these poems moves from somber moments of religious and historical reflection to the description of dramatic, even frightening, events in contemporary life, proving once again that political realities, faith, and personal, familial life are inescapably intertwined. These are, above all, accomplished and beautiful poems that will be read and reread for a very long time.
—Gale Wronsky
Rachel Heimowitz’s collection of poems, What the Light Reveals, is a remarkable debut. This brilliant, sobering, often harrowing – yet always lyrical – account of life in Israel is also a meditation on faith and family, both immediate family and the larger human family as well. As Rachel Heimowitz reckons her place as a woman in a time and place of war, we find ourselves, as readers, enveloped in one of the most intimate and dramatic sequences of poems in recent years. This is a book to cherish.—David St. John
“Holding”, Rachel Heimowitz says, “is a woman’s purpose”, and by “holding” she means keeping, securing, preserving, remembering, carrying deep inside as in prayer, witnessing, and testifying truthfully, earnestly and urgently. It is a woman’s purpose, this is true, and it is the poet’s purpose, too. Sometimes it is a splendid accident when a gifted poet is thrown into places and times that demand the poet’s heart and eye. In What the Light Reveals, Heimowitz shows herself to be precisely that poet, and the result is poetry of grace, exquisite wrenching, and stark honesty.—Kwame Dawes
Listen to Poems from What the Light Reveals
http://www.rachelheimowitz.com/#!blank/c6ll
Read More From Rachel Online:
http://composejournal.com/articles/rachel-heimowitz-two-poems/
http://www.crowhollowbooks.com/m1-1–rachel-heimowitz.html
http://www.soul-lit.com/poems/v5/Hemiowitz/index.html
http://atticusreview.org/bright-eyes-tight/
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Two Prompts ‘Cause I’m Sooooo Happy Spring’s Here!
Happy Spring Prompt 1
Dreamt last night I was playing with a little bitty baby bear We tussled and snuggled and giggled and romped. Make art about a baby’s capacity for joy. 🙂 Or about a bear. 🙂
Happy Spring Prompt 1
Make art with the first day of spring, about rebirth.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up!
3/18/2016
Make art about survivors.
3/19/2016
Make art inspired by a rainy Saturday.
Daily Prompt
Make art about the difference between hearing and listening.
“So long now I been out in the rain and snow, but Winter’s come and gone, a little bird told me so….” 🙂 ❤ New beginnings, y’all. Letting go of what doesn’t work, moving forward to where Love is ❤
Daily Prompt
Before my mama went on to the next life, she told me “You’ve got to LET someone love you, Mary, really Love you.” One of the lessons I’m still learning, both about myself, and about other people.
You can only love someone as much as they’ll let you.
Make art inspired by this.
Great insights on this can be found here.
Daily Prompt
“…careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist …”~John Geddes
Make art with mist as the central metaphor.
Daily Prompt
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” – Albert Einstein
Make art with deliberate shifts in time.
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