Daily Prompt Love <3 Shifting
29 July 2019
Make art about shape shifting, about a shape shifter.
Posts tagged ‘Poem’
Daily Prompt Love <3 On Not Wanting to See
28 July 2019
Blind Faith: belief without true understanding, perception, or discrimination.
Make art about unwillingness to see, listen, or learn, about blind faith.
Image by Stefano Ferrario from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 Better Late Than Never, Right?
27 July 2019
Down with a fever today. Ick.
Make art about fever dreams.
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Tiferet, Themed Issue on "Borders"
Tiferet: Fostering Peace Through Literature & Art
Call for Submissions on Special Borders Issue
Deadline: September 1, 2019
Currently accepting submissions for a special issue of Tiferet Journal entitled “Borders.” In this issue, we will focus on breaking down walls and crossing borders of culture, faith, gender, and spiritual beliefs to promote understanding, compassion and cross-cultural connections.
Complete Submissions Details Here
Daily Prompt Love <3 Blocking
26 July 2019
Make art about obstruction, about obstructing something, or about being obstructed.
Image by Brigitte Werner from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 Jungle Wild
25 July 2019
“Jungle rain had no beginning or end; it grew like foliage from the sky, branching and arching to the earth, sometimes in solid thickets entangling the islands, and other times, in tendrils of blue mist curling out of coastal clouds. The jungle breathed an eternal green that fevered men.”-Leslie Marmon Silko
Make art using a jungle as the inspiration or central metaphor.
Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 Facing It
23 July 2019
Make art about confrontation, about confronting someone or something, about avoiding confrontation, or about a time when confrontation was healthy.
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Pond Water & Mud <3 Sharing a poem from my latest book (Un)Hinged
Thanks to Sammy Greenspan and all the good folks at Kattywompus Press ❤ Here’s a peek into this odd, little book ❤
Woman Made of Pond Water and Mud
mouth o’ing like fish, fighting for breath in the run-off, in the sludge, in what’s left
of the autumn light gold-slicking the green green surface. She fights to recall what it means to keep breathing.
Meaning is, she knows, manufactured, manufacturing, making, made. What will
we construct today, this day where cold rain pools all across the yard, and where
the gathering dark makes it hard for even the slightest steps of dreaming?
As a child she learned early to clean fish, buckets of struggle she and her brothers carried
home from the creek, the pond, the river, home to the scrape, the knife, the filet,
the tweezer pull of pin bones, careful delicate extractions, lessons in vigilance,
before her mama’s sure hands transformed their catch into sustenance.
She never could look in there, in the pail, couldn’t watch as those fish–
bass, stripe, crappie, cats–fought so hard, banged in circles against the smooth
unending plastic, ramming and gasping, drowning in air. She didn’t have to, look,
or ask, when even now her own small amphibious heart thudded
within the curve of her ribs, this breath, then that, the only meaning
even vaguely in reach of her grasp.
-Mary Carroll-Hackett, (Un)Hinged, Kattywompus Press, 2019
Monday Must Read! The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall
A must-read for any writer or storyteller, I think.
A New York Times Editor’s Choice
A Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist
“A jaunty, insightful new book . . . [that] draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us.”
—New York Times
—New York Times
Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. Now Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life’s complex social problems–just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, Gottschall tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal and explains how stories can change the world for the better. We know we are master shapers of story. The Storytelling Animal finally reveals how stories shape us.
“This is a quite wonderful book. It grips the reader with both stories and stories about the telling of stories, then pulls it all together to explain why storytelling is a fundamental human instinct.”
–Edward O. Wilson
“Charms with anecdotes and examples . . . we have not left nor should we ever leave Neverland.”–Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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