Daily Prompt
Thinkin of all the loving care my nurse mama and sister gave their patients for decades.
Make art about nurses, about caretakers.
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12/5/2015
I haven’t put up a Christmas tree since 2011, the year both my husband and brother walked on to the next life. This year, I’m finally putting one up again, and covering it with crazy little angels I’ve been handmaking from clay and fabric for several weeks. I’m calling it my Healing Tree. Make art about healing.
12/6/2015
Quiet Sunday morning with my son. Make art about quiet.
12/7/2015
Daily Prompt
Mornin news story on how law enforcement s now strongly encouragin people to report it if their neighbors are actin odd or “suspicious.” One of the signs they mentioned is havin lots of deliveries, like from UPS. If this is the standard, I’m screwed. Totalitarianism for breakfast 😦
Because I think we need to….Make art about resistance.
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For the Consideration of Poets
by Haki Madhubuti
where is the poetry of resistance,
the poetry of honorable defiance
unafraid of lies from career politicians and business men,
not respectful of journalist who write
official speak void of educated thought
without double search or sub surface questions
that war talk demands?
where is the poetry of doubt and suspicion
not in the service of the state, bishops and priests,
not in the service of beautiful people and late night promises,
not in the service of influence, incompetence and academic
clown talk?
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Daily Prompt
“Angels affect us oft”~John Donne
I’m putting up my first Christmas tree since my husband and brother passed on in 2011. So, I’m a little obsessed right now with making angel ornaments.
Make art about angels.
This week meet Amy Tudor, whose first collection of poetry, A Book of Birds, won the Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry from Briery Creek Press and was published in 2008. Her second collection, Studies in Extinction, is forthcoming from Aldrich Press in early 2016. Her honors and awards include individual artist grants from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She holds both a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities and a M.F.A. in creative writing and currently teaches creative writing and interdisciplinary courses in thanatology at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. In addition, Amy is a published essayist, short fiction writer, and photographer, and she is also a working songwriter, with recent collaborations with British artists Mark Chadwick of the Levelers and Jamie Freeman of the Jamie Freeman Agreement.
Buy Amy’s Beautiful Books!
Professor Of Bees
https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=227
The Secret Museum
https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=1893
Book of Birds
http://www.amazon.com/Amy-Tudor/e/B00J7CGLL4
And watch for Amy’s new book, Studies in Extinction, forthcoming from Aldrich Books in 2016!
Read More of Amy’s Amazing Work Online!
http://www.newsoutherner.com/2012/12/19/studies-in-extinction/
http://www.stilljournal.net/amy-tudor-poetry.php
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v12n2/poetry/tudor_a/death_page.shtml
http://www.newsoutherner.com/tag/amy-tudor/
Interview at Boxcar Poetry
http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/019/interview_tudor_cunningham.html
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