Sometimes the Prompt Is Sold Out
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Pre-winter-storm panic is on where I am.
Make art about needing bread and milk.
Posts tagged ‘One Love’
Sometimes the Prompt Reminds Us Who We Really Are
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Make art about justice.
Or interconnectedness.
Thank you, Dr. King.
Monday Must Read! Lesléa Newman, I Carry My Mother
This week meet Lesléa Newman, the author of 70 books for readers of all ages including the poetry collections, Still Life with Buddy, Nobody’s Mother, and Signs of Love. In 2012, her novel-in-verse, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard, received a Stonewall Honor from the American Library Association and was named a “Must Read” title by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Ms. Newman has won many literary awards including poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation; the Burning Bush Poetry Prize; the Americus Review poetry prize, and second place runner-up in the Solstice Literary Journal poetry competition. Her poetry has been published in Spoon River Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Evergreen Chronicles, Moment Magazine, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Lilith Magazine, Kalliope, The Sun, Bark Magazine, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Seventeen Magazine and others. Nine of her books have been Lambda Literary Award Finalists and she has received four Pushcart Prize nominations. From 2008-2010 she served as the poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts. Currently she is a faculty member of Spalding University’s low-residency MFA in Writing program. Her newest poetry collection, I Carry My Mother was published in January 2015 by Headmistress Press.
Lesléa’s website: http://www.lesleanewman.com/newbks.htm
Buy Lesléa Newman’s latest poetry book, I Carry My Mother:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0692277056/leslenewmawrite/
Buy Lesléa Newman’s novel-in-verse, October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0763658073/leslenewmawrite/
Poetry by Lesléa Newman:
“How to Watch Your Father Watch Your Mother Die”
http://www.masspoetry.org/poemofthemoment4/#pomnewman
“Looking at Her”
http://www.lavrev.net/2014/12/leslea-newman.html
“I Carry My Mother”
http://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/2015/06/12/i-carry-my-mother-by-leslea-newman/
“Teen Angels”
http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2013/04/leslea-newman-teen-angels.html
Interviews
“Getting to Know Lesléa Newman and her new book, I Carry My Mother
http://www.masspoetry.org/newbooknewman/
“Poet to Poet: Jane Yolen interviews Lesléa Newman”
http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/2015/01/poet-to-poet-jane-yolen-and-leslea.html
“On Poetry, Mentoring, and Writing for Adults and Teens”
http://scbwi.blogspot.com/2015/03/leslea-newman-on-poetry-mentoring-and.html
“It’s My Job To Use My Imagination: Writing October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard”
http://www.recorder.com/home/11350058-95/its-my-job-to-imagine
Articles:
“Formally Yours: The Joys of Writing Formal Verse”
http://www.spaldingmfablog.org/?p=318
“Writing October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard: An 11 Year Journey”
“Dear Professor H.”
http://passagesnorth.com/2014/10/writers-on-writing-95-leslea-newman/
“Allen, Adieu: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg”
http://www.lesleanewman.com/allen_adieu.html
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Sometimes the Prompt Makes It All Come Clear
Daily Prompt
“Snow falling soundlessly will always fill my heart with sweet clarity” ~Novala Takemoto
Make art about the musings brought on by falling snow.
Sometimes the Prompt Is Born of Sadness
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“Call it a night. O soul. Flow on. Instead.”~CD Wright
Make art about the eternal flow.
Sometimes The Day Is The Poem <3
“dreaming is believing” ❤
who you are is miraculous ❤ never forget that.
Sometimes The Prompt Just Begins To Fall
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“This, then, is the gift the world has given me/(you have given me)/softly the snow”~Diana Di Prima
Make art with first snow as the central metaphor.
Sometimes You Just Gotta Let The Prompt Go
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Sometimes people just have to deal with their own issues.
Make art about letting people go.
Bless and release, y’all ❤
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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