Sometimes the Memory Is the Poem <3
Woke up hearing someone sing this ❤ “Let the light guide your way. Hold every memory as you go.” ❤
Needed reminder that bodies may end, but Love never does. ❤
Posts tagged ‘Mary Carroll-Hackett’
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Salvage, Reconstruct, and Dreams of Lace
Daily Prompt Catch-Up 😀 Soooo busy around here lately! LOL
9/4/2015
Lots of thinkin this week about salvage. “The wreck is a fact…The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work.”~Kay Ryan Make art about salvage, or salvaging something.
9/5/2015
“Sink, suffer, self-destruct. Rise stronger, reconstruct”~Lamb of God Make art about reconstruction, about reconstructing from what’s left.
9/6/2015
Someone I love is battling cancer. Make art about illnesss or disease.
9/7/2015
Dreamt someone I love brought me yards of unbleached cotton and lace. Make art with flowing white fabric, or lace, or lacing as the central metaphor.
Monday Must Read! Laurie Kolp: Upon the Blue Couch
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Laurie Kolp. Laurie is an avid runner, lover of nature, mother of three, and wife to former Marine who enjoys living life one day at a time in Southeast Texas. She is the author of Upon the Blue Couch (Winter Goose Publishing, 2014) and Hello It’s Your Mother (Finishing Line Press, October 2015). Laurie’s poems have appeared in more than four dozen print and online journals worldwide including the 2015 Poet’s Market, Scissors & Spackle, North Dakota Quarterly, Blue Fifth Review, and Pirene’s Fountain.
You can find out more about Laurie on her website, http://lauriekolp.com
Praise for Laurie’s work!
Laurie Kolp’s new collection Hello, It’s Your Mother is a poetry that threads the hard truth of loss and grief to daily living – piano lessons, coffee tables, blueberry scones, and phones. It’s the ordinary made universal in the relentless will to sort the fragments of life, to give us something to hold, and Kolp does this well. Her writing skill never falters, never loses voice, allowing the real moments of mother / daughter relationships to find a strong connection in all readers. This is a remarkable and penetrating work.~Sam Rasnake, author of Cinéma Vérité (Editor of Blue Fifth Review)
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Because Kolp writes of the everyday, she writes of the familiar. These poems and the life they paint are recognizable. We see ourselves in the poems; we share the emotions they evoke; and the life and lives they represent become our lives. ~Glynn Young of Tweetspeak Poetry, Author of Poetry at Work
Laurie’s Work and More Online:
Upon the Blue Couch- Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Origami Poems Project (free micro-chap)- What You Left
Turtle Island Quarterly- Muffled (bottom of Chapter 1)
Gnarled Oak- haiku
Otter Magazine- Crushed Rose
Black Heart Magazine- 3 poems
Here is a link to an interview by Robert Lee Brewer on Poetic Asides.
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Sometimes the Prompt is the Key :-)
9/1/2015
Dreamt someone I love gave me a ring full of keys and I gleefully skipped around unlocking and throwing open doors. 🙂
Make art about keys, about finding the key. 
Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Big Family Weekend :-)
Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂
8/29/2015
All my kids coming home for a visit 🙂 Make art about visitors.
8/30/2015
You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.” ~Diane Samuels Make art about children, young or adult, or about parenting.
8/31/2015
I’m fixin to go on a sewin binge 🙂 The first known sewing needle came from southwestern France and dates to about 25,000 years ago. When I sew, I feel an endless procession of women surround me, as I, in my small way, add to the story. Make art about sewing, or needlework, or stitching something together.
A set of bone needles from the Cave of Courbet in the Aveyron Valley, near Toulouse, France. Believed to be over 13,000 years old.
Monday Must Read! Marilyn McCabe: Perpetual Motion and Rugged Means of Grace
Monday Must Read!
This week, meet Marilyn McCabe, author of Perpetual Motion, published by The Word Works in 2012 as the winner of the Hilary Tham Capitol Collection contest.
Peek inside and purchase Marilyn’s book from Small Press Distribution:
http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780915380824/perpetual-motion.aspx
A chapbook, Rugged Means of Grace, was published by Finishing Line Press:
https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=1337
Marilyn’s poem “On Hearing the Call to Prayer Over the Marcellus Shale on Easter Morning” was awarded A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize, fall 2012, appeared in the Los Angeles Review.
Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as Nimrod, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, French translations and songs on Numero Cinq, and a video-poem on The Continental Review.
Visit Marilyn’s blog about writing and reading at marilynonaroll.wordpress.com
Read more of Marilyn’s work online:
Valparaiso Literary Review:
http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v14n1/v14n1poetry/mccabelakeshore.php
The Cortland Review:
http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/52/mccabe.php
Interview at TNB:
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbpoetry/2012/04/marilyn-mccabe-the-tnb-self-interview/
Happy reading, y’all!
xo
Mary
Friday Call for Submissions Love! 3Elements: Mania, Tower, Exposure.
Friday Call for Submissions Love!
3Elements Literary Review
Deadline: October 31, 2015
Call for Submissions
3Elements Literary Review seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, and photography for Winter/January issue.
Each quarter, three elements/words are given that must be incorporated into your story or poem. The rest of the story is completely up to you. If you choose to submit art or photography, only one element is needed.
Current elements are: Mania, Tower, Exposure.
About
“We appreciate good writing in any gWe appreciate good writing in any genre. We especially like edgy writing that offers insight into darkness. We prefer character-driven stories as opposed to plot-driven ones. We relish a piece with a great deal of heart and more than a little bit of Truth (note the capital “T”).We want to read a story that makes us feel edified or philosophical or amused or creeped out or angry or melancholy or inspired or, best yet, all of these things together.enre. We especially like edgy writing that offers insight into darkness. We prefer character-driven stories as opposed to plot-driven ones. We relish a piece with a great deal of heart and more than a little bit of Truth (note the capital “T”).We want to read a story that makes us feel edified or philosophical or amused or creeped out or angry or melancholy or inspired or, best yet, all of these things together.
We want to read a story we simply can’t put down.We generally don’t enjoy science fiction, unless a particularly well-written story rises above the ordinary to engage the heart as well as the mind. We despise cliché. We find stories that include gratuitous violence distasteful. Sexism, racism, or other forms of intolerance are intolerable to us. That said, you can certainly reveal a character through his/her prejudices; just don’t use a story to perpetuate negative stereotypes or ignorance. The world is already bursting with both.c
And now, the important stuff:
The three elements for the current submission period are: Mania, Tower, Exposure.
As you might have guessed, 3Elements Review is a themed literary journal, hence the three elements, and all THREE elements (the specific words, Mania, Tower, Exposure—art/photography excluded) given for the submission period must be included in your story or poem for your work to be considered for publication in 3Elements Review; NO EXCEPTIONS WHATSOEVER. Synonyms of the elements will not be accepted.
For more information, and to review our submission guidelines, visit www.3elementsReview.com/winter-submissions. All work must be submitted through website.
When the Dream is the Prompt, or the Prompt is a Dream :-)
8/28/2015
Daily Prompt
“I see you in your backyard’s lavender, post-lunch doze, dreaming someone.”~W.S. Di Piero
Make art inspired by lavender, the color or the scent or the flower 🙂 or the feeling 🙂
Daily Prompt :-) In Pieces
8/24/2015
Daily Prompt
Woke up feeling like life’s full of promise 🙂 So many dreams last night, but all that remains are shining fragments 🙂
Make art about fragments.
Monday Must Read! Diana Whitney: Wanting It
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Diana Whitney. Diana’s first book of poetry, Wanting It, was released in 2014 by Harbor Mountain Press and became an indie bestseller. Wanting It won the Rubery International Book Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Julie Suk Award here in the US. Diana is the poetry columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the winner of the 2015 Women’s National Book Association poetry prize, selected by Ellen Bass. She is grateful to have received grants and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center.
Diana’s poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Crab Orchard Review, The Rumpus, Mud Season Review, and many more. Her irreverent parenting column, Spilt Milk, was syndicated for years, ran as a public radio commentary series, and is currently being collected into a risky memoir about motherhood and sexuality. A yoga teacher by trade, Diana blogs about the darker side of mothering for The Huffington Post and runs a yoga studio in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and thirteen chickens.
Visit Diana’s website: www.diana-whitney.com
Get Diana’s book:
http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988275522/wanting-it.aspx
Reviews of Diana’s book, Wanting It:
Gulf Coast Magazine:
http://gulfcoastmag.org/online/blog/wanting-it,-a-review/
Coal Hill Review:
http://www.coalhillreview.com/book-review-wanting-it-by-diana-whitney/
Read Diana’s work online:
New poems:
Mud Season Review
http://mudseasonreview.com/2015/07/poetry-issue-11/
One: Jacar Press
http://one.jacarpress.com/?s=Diana+Whitney#Diana%20Whitney
Book Reviews:
http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Poetry-John-Burnside-Jane-Hirshfield-Rebecca-6401935.php
Essays:
http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2013/08/10/kissing-essay-diana-whitney/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-whitney/raising-a-rock-star_b_5888600.html
Author interviews:
http://mudseasonreview.com/2015/07/you-never-know-when-youre-working/
http://www.penparentis.org/interview-with-poet-diana-whitney/
Happy reading!
xo
Mary
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