"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

Posts tagged ‘Music’

Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3

11/8/2016

Make art about hard choices.

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11/9/2016

Make art about not learning the lessons of history.

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11/10/2016

Make art about Love as Resistance.

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Finally! 24 New Creativity-Inspiring Prompts!

And hopefully I’m back on track with these 🙂 ❤ Love y’all!

10/10/2016

Make art about buried treasure.

10/11/2016

Make art about working toward a goal.

10/12/2016

Make art about the sound of walking.

10/13/2016

Make art about frailty.

10/14/2016

Make art about a youngest child, that last child.

10/15/2016

Make art about what’s revealed in the moonlight.

10/16/2016

Make art about birds on a wire.

10/17/2016

Make art about going back in time.

10/18/2016

Make art about leaving an inheritance, or receiving one, on what’s inherited.

10/19/2016

My mama used to quote the Bible, saying, “Never a prophet in your own land.” Make art inspired by this quote.

10/20/2016

Make art about transitions.

10/21/2016

I really want to take a ceramics class. Make art about what you want to learn.

10/22/2016

Make art about excavation, literal or metaphorical.

10/23/2016

Canning apples for days. Make art about the fruits of autumn.

10/24/2016

Make art about every day angel encounters.

10/25/2016

Make art about the sacredness of water.

10/26/2016

Make art about making a trip home.

10/27/2016

Make art about what kind of road your heart would be.

10/28/2016

“When born, you inherit what’s burning.”~Liam Rector Make art inspired by this quote.

10/29/2016

Make art about night driving.

10/30/2016

A friend came across an old painting that looks just like me. Make art about doppelgangers.

10/31/2016

I set out food for the ancestors, cornmeal and milk for the wee folk, lit a fire and watched it burn. Make art about ancient traditions.

11/1/2016

Sometimes the sorrow is so deep, all I know to do is cook. Make art about process sorrow in an unexpected way.

11/2/2016

Make art consoling, receiving, or giving, consolation.

11/3/2016

Make art about feeling paralyzed.

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Aji Mag and Music

Aji Magazine Call for Submissions for Spring 2017

Deadline: After first 500 submissions are received.

 

While Aji publishes poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, graphic art, and photographs on all subjects in every issue, the theme for our spring 2017 issue is music, the tempo of a city street, the dissonance of a conversation—what are the melodies, the harmonies, and the rhythms of your life? Send us work on music of all types, classical, jazz, experimental, pop, and of course the thundering and whispering of storms, the jangling of traffic, the noise in your head that won’t let you sleep. We’re a small staff—we will close submissions after the first 500 submissions. www.ajimagazine.com

Sometimes the Prompt Is a Place to Take Refuge <3

Daily Prompt Love ❤

Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm.”~Bob Dylan

Make art about seeking refuge, taking shelter, offering shelter.

Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Storms, and Shrines, and What We Can Learn <3

10/4/2016

I grew up in Hurricane Alley, eastern North Carolina, so the preparation for these big storms is something I learned early. Hurricane Matthew has ripped through Haiti, and is on his way to the US East Coast. All my provisions are laid in, flashlights and emergency equipment in place and ready, and I’ve battened down as much as I can. But sometimes Mama Nature’s just too big and unpredictable for any kind of preparation.

Make art about preparing the best you can.

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10/5/2016

Thinking a lot today about all the ways people find their way to, or demonstrate faith. Took me immediately to one of my top three favorite songs, The Mountain, by Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer.

Excerpted Lyrics by Dave Carter

Some build temples and some find altars,
some come in tall hats and robes spun fine.
Some in rags, some in gemstone halters,
some push the pegs back in line.

I see the mountain, the mountain comes to me,
I see the mountain and that is all I see.

Make art about temples or altars or shrines, faith in some unexpected way.

 

10/6/2016

Road Angel Andrea at Walmart today told me about her grandmama teaching her to sew, first by making curtains, long straight hems, she said, over and over again, summer curtains, winter curtains with their heavy lining. She said her grandmama was patient but tough, making her tear out crooked stitches, and try again til she got it right. “I learned to take my time,” she said. “I learned to take my time, look ahead of the foot, and how a pair of curtains can make all the difference in a room.”

Make art about curtains. Or about what you learned from an elder.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Old Music and New

9/24/2016

Found some healing and comfort last night from listening to old school outlaw country music that my mama loved. 

Make art inspired by a song remembered from your childhood. 

 

 

25 September 2016

Make art about another beginning. 

 

Big Ol’ Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Almost a Month’s Worth of Prompts! Gettin back on track around here :-)

8/24/2016

Spent a lot of time the last two days in traffic jams.

Make art about something unexpectedly positive arising from being stuck in a traffic jam.

8/25/2016

Make art about ceremony.

8/26/2016

Make art about grandmothers.

8/27/2016

Make art about spirituality or faith as a spectator sport.

8/28/2016

Make art about realizing you already had what you though your were looking for.

8/29/2016

Make art about finding family, or about the family you choose, rather than the one you were born to.

8/30/2016

Mercury goes into a three week retrograde, starting today. Careful with communication and travel plans.

Make art about something spinning backwards, or about a snafu in communication or travel.

8/31/2016

Make art about taking a shortcut.

9/1/2016

Make art about coming back home.

9/2/2016

Make art about a specific request from a child.

9/3/2016

Make art about dragons.

9/4/2016

Interestingly, the word dragon derives from two separate Greek words. One word means “a huge serpent or snake” and the other means “I see clearly”.

Make art about seeing the panoramic view, the big picture.

9/5/2016

Make art about getting your wings.

9/6/2016

Recently witnessed a young man in line at the grocery store pay for the purchases of the stranger behind him, just as an act of kindness.

Make art about an act of kindness toward a stranger.

9/7/2016

In that same grocery store line, the woman behind me, even after having witnessed the young man’s spontaneous act of kindness, ranted on about how awful young ones are.

Make art about being blind to what’s right before you.

9/8/2016

Soundtrack for the day: R.E.M.

Make art about losing your religion.

9/9/2016

Whoever the next man in my life turns out to be, he’s gonna need to love onions 🙂 or at least be tolerant of how much I love em.

Make art about loving someone in spite of themselves 🙂

9/10/2016

I have been diagnosed with Complicated Grief Based PTSD. PTSD is so misunderstood.

Make art about PTSD, about the echoes and scars of trauma.

9/11/2016

The sky was so blue that day.

Make art about the tension of beauty set against tragedy.

9/12/2016

Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can share its joy.” (Proverbs 14:10).

Make art about healing bitterness. Or about finding compassion for a bitter person.

9/13/2016

“Where is a woman, there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs, and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort with the spirits.”~Nzotake Shange. Ms. Shange has inspired me since my teen years. She still does, every day.

Pick a line from a writer who has inspired you for years, and use it to inspire art.

9/14/2016

Make art about the Harvest Moon. Or about an eclipse. Use either as a metaphor in a new and different way.

9/15/2016

Make art about stitches, something sewn together, or something coming apart at the seams.

9/16/2016

Make art about a late night visitor.

9/17/2016

We managed to surprise my oldest son with a birthday celebration today 🙂 Not an easy task to catch him off guard that way 🙂

Make art about surprising someone.

9/18/2016

Came home from my walk to find The Fisher King on TV, one of my favorite movies.

Make art inspired by a scene from a favorite film.

9/19/2016

Writing today about a particularly tough lesson I learned.

Make art about a hard lesson.

 

 

Daily Prompt Love! <3 Mountains, and Mystery, and Music–Oh My! :-)

 

13 August 2016

Headed off to wild and wonderful West Virginia for a reading. Driving through these amazing Appalachian mountains always fills me with such awe.

Make art about the mysteries felt in mountains.

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14 August 2016

Road Angel named Bay, a very large beautiful young man working as a cashier in a roadside stop, his smile like a bright bright beacon, caught me doing a lil dance in the aisle to the BeeGees piping in overhead. He grinned and immediately started dancing too 😀 So we finished out Stayin Alive while I paid 🙂

Make art about dancing with strangers. 🙂

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15 August 2016

Feeling this this morning, the music.

Some days I catch a rhythm, almost a song/in my own breath”~Philip Levine

Make art about the music you hear, in anything, in everything.

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Daily Prompt Love <3 What's in the Water

10 August 2016

Woke up hearing this song. One of my favorites. 

Make art about where God is. Or about casting out a line into the darkness. 

 

Daily Prompt <3 Hard Travelin' for the Tender Hearted.

29 June 2016

“It’s hard to wake up sometimes and look back at your life with clear eyes, isn’t it? All the Hello’s and Goodbye’s, and all the things said and left unsaid, whether they were timely, or easy, or uncomfortable or boltfree, or jarring, or just plain true, at least for you, in the moment of their saying.And once you’re awake you have to listen to the now, or ignore it and pretend that it’s just not there. Tricky stuff for the strongest of us, and hard travelin’ for the tender hearted. Like pilgrims on some dusty trail, the long line of true believers stretches into nothingness, and the shadows of the don’t fit in’s move along like so much smoke, pungent and ethereal, lingering toward home.”~John Little Bear Eaton

Make art about the don’t fit in’s. 

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