Daily Prompt Love <3 Stones
4 April 2019
“where stone has old stories”–Linda Hogan
Make art about the stories stones tell, the songs stones sing.
Posts tagged ‘poems’
Daily Prompt Love <3 Vulnerable
3 April 2019
Make art about the vulnerability of animals, about the absolute trust of a pet.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Dance
2 April 2019
“The music stopped playing years ago but we’re still dancing.”–Marcel Hernandez Castillo
Make art about the dance, about dancing.
Image by prabha karan from Pixabay
Monday Must Read! Drifting in Awe by Larry Thacker
Larry D. Thacker is a Kentuckian poet, writer, and artist now hailing from Johnson City, Tennessee with his wife, Karin, and their cat, Abraham Lincoln. A five year veteran of the US army and having served fifteen years in the realm of student services in higher education, he finally paid heed to the voices of adventurous reason and will soon complete his poetry and fiction MFA at West Virginia Wesleyan College. He earned his bachelor of history, master of education in counseling, and education specialist degree from Lincoln Memorial University, home of the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival. Besides Drifting in Awe, he is the author of Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia (2007), and the chapbooks Voice Hunting (2011) and Memory Train (2015). His poems have appeared in over a hundred journals and magazines.
Keep up with what’s happening at http://www.larrydthacker.com
and on Instagram at: thackalachia
Also, keep an eye out for Larry’s forthcoming collection, Grave Robber Confessional, later this year, from one of my favorites, FutureCycle Press.
Praise for Drifting in Awe
The poems in this resonant book offer a strong, hands-on encounter with the world as it is, with the weather, geography, the trees, our fellow creatures. Attending to the muscular and physical realities of the local world, however, rightly leads these poems to the lesser-known and less-certain wonders of the metaphysical, to the apprehension, as far as the mind can reach, of a meaning beyond the limits of physical knowledge. What’s out there beyond the fog rising in a cove? What questions should we ask, only to voice them, knowing they have no ready answer? That strange little paradox is why we have poetry at all, and here is a fine book to prove that point, with elegance, and with elegant reserve.
—Maurice Manning
Larry Thacker writes of the natural world and what hovers on the edge of consciousness. Entities “seen in the corner of the eye” or “the sound of the sun” might manifest if one becomes still enough to see and hear. Drifting in Awe, gives us a manual for doing just that. In his first full length collection, Thacker invites us to be still and let that world come to us if we are brave enough.
—Jane Hicks
30 New Prompts to Celebrate National Poetry Month! Join Us on Facebook!
Tomorrow! April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate, I’ve created and posted 30 new prompts to inspire and incite! The prompts will work for fiction or nonfiction too!
Join us in the Better-Than-Black-Friday Writing Group, and let’s get that spring write on! ❤
Join us HERE!
Daily Prompt Love <3 Cure
31 March 2019
Make art about what the cure is, about what cured you, about what needs to be cured.
Special Weekend Call for Submissions <3 Voice of Eve
Voice of Eve Accepting Women’s Poetry and Art
Submissions accepted year-round.
Voice of Eve is a magazine dedicated to women’s poetry and artwork.
“We celebrate women, their spirit, and their expression through art.”
Please read guidelines at www.voiceofeve.net/submissions before submitting.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Mending
30 March 2019
“Bend, mend—the echo isn’t lost on me-”– Jeff Hardin
Make art about what’s been mended, or needs mending.
Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay
Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Nebo
Nebo: A Literary Journal, Arkansas Tech University’s literary journal.
“Nebo accepts submissions year round. We’re interested in all kinds of creative work—fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, comics, art, etc.”
Send your submissions as an attachment to:
neboATatuDOTedu (Change AT to @ and DOT to . )
Please include a brief, 3rd person author bio of no more than 100 words.
Simultaneous submissions and multiple submissions are fine.
They’re also happy to consider reprints from print journals. Please let them know where the piece was published previously.
Submissions should include no more than 5,000 words of prose, five poems, or 20 pages of comics.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Collapse
29 March 2019
“I’ve been wandering where the cold tracks of language collapse into cinders, unburnable trash.”–Chase Twichell
Make art about the collapse of language, or about the burning, the cinders.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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