10/22/2015
“I want to remember us this way—late September sun streaming through
the window, bread loaves and golden bunches of grapes on the table, spoonfuls of hot soup rising to our lips, filling us with what endures.”~Peter Pereira
Make art about sustenance.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂
10/15/2015
I have one dog who thinks she’s Houdini, constantly coming up with magic ways to get out of my fenced yard. Make art about escape.
10/16/2015
“The sky hangs up its starry pictures: a swan, a crab, a horse”~Barbara Crooker Make art inspired by constellations.
10/17/2015
I’m conducting a workshop this weekend on Writing Prayer. Write your own prayer, or chant, or gratitude letter. Make art that is prayer.
10/18/2015
Nighttime & Dreams Daily Prompt
Last night I dreamt my beautiful friend Beth and I were escorting a huge group–hundreds–of people on some kind of trek to safety through a beautiful wild desert-like landscape. Beth walked in the front of the long long line of people, and I covered the back, making sure we lost no one. I carried a small child, a little boy with outrageously blue eyes, on my hip, We had planned for years for the time when we would have to do this, and so we knew what we had to do to get them where we were taking them safely. It felt good and strong and somehow celebratory, despite knowing it was a rescue and there was so much that had to be done. I was very glad to have Beth there with me.
Make art about rescue.
10/19/2015
First frost of the fall 🙂 My cold frames are keeping the winter garden safe. Make art about protecting something from the cold.
10/20/2015
Today included seriously the most amazing nap 🙂 Make art about naps.
10/21/2015
Thinkin on Call & Response. Call and response is a form of “spontaneous verbal non-verbal interaction between speaker and listener in which all of the statements (‘calls’) are punctuated by expressions (‘responses’) from the listener.” Make art using a call & response exchange.
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Susan Lewis, the author of six chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections, This Visit (BlazeVOX [books], 2015), and How to be Another (Červená Barva Press, 2014). Her poetry and flash fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize several times and published in such journals as The Awl, Berkeley Poetry Review, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Cimarron Review, Connotation Press, EOAGH, Fact-Simile, Fourteen Hills, Gargoyle, The Journal, Luna Luna, The New Orleans Review, Phoebe, Ping Pong, Pool, Prelude, Propeller, Raritan, Seneca Review, So To Speak, Verse Daily, Word For/Word and Yew. She lives in New York City and edits Posit (www.positjournal.com).
Get Susan’s most recent books here:
http://www.spdbooks.org/Search/Default.aspx?AuthorName=Susan+Lewis
Read more from Susan online:
http://www.susanlewis.net/poetry-online/
Read reviews, interviews, blurbs, etc.:
Monday Must Read! Pam Uschuk
This week meet Pam Uschuk. Political activist and wilderness advocate, Pam Uschuk has howled out six books of poems, including Crazy Love, winner of a 2010 American Book Award, and Wild In The Plaza Of Memory. A new collection of poems, Blood Flower, was released in February 2015.
Translated into more than dozen languages, Pam’s work appears in over three hundred journals and anthologies worldwide, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Agni Review, etc. Uschuk has been awarded the 2011 War Poetry Prize from WINNING WRITERS, 2010 New Millenium Poetry Prize, 2010 Best of the Web, the Struga International Poetry Prize (for a theme poem), the Dorothy Daniels Writing Award from the National League of American PEN Women, the King’s English Poetry Prize and prizes from Ascent, Iris, and Amnesty International.
Editor-In-Chief of Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts, Uschuk lives in Bayfield, Colorado. Uschuk is often a featured writer at the Prague Summer Programs, teaches occasional workshops for the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, and was the 2011 John C. Hodges Visiting Writer at University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She’s working on a multi-genre book called The Book of Healers Healing: An Odyssey Through Ovarian Cancer.
Buy Pam’s Beautiful Books!
Blood Flower: http://wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=193
Crazy Love: http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=104
Wild in the Plaza of Memory: http://www.wingspress.com/book.cfm?book_ID=141
More of Pam’s books here!
http://www.wingspress.com/author.cfm?author_ID=24
Read More from Pam online:
http://www.coloradopoetscenter.org/poets/uschuk_pamela/
http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/uschuk.html
http://www.terrain.org/poetry/24/uschuk.htm
Hear Pam Read: https://vimeo.com/74141138
Praise for Pam’s Work!
“Like Lorca, Uschuk is a poet of the duende, that mystical Spanish conception; she views the poem as a vehicle for fierce engagement with the body and its social realities, often with a metaphysical awareness that transcends and extends the corporeal into the natural world. Working a poetics rare for a North American writer, Uschuk has crafted a poetry equally steeped in nature and political resistance. This is an ecological poetics of engagement, a mythic poetry—part Lorca, part Rachel Carson.”–Sean Thomas Dougherty, RAIN TAXI, 2012
“American Book Award–winner Uschuk’s new collection of meditative, delectably powerful poems offers a steady and generous solace that serves as a platform for thought-provoking glimpses into spirit, family, and feeling. She has written of a tethered reality, commonplace secrets, and emotional rescue. And she is political. Among the more than 40 poems, “Red Menace” (“After all of these years / it’s clear what it was / those teachers couldn’t name— / not just the consonants but the roots, / the skin drums”) and “Black Swan” (“Grandfather, what purpose can you discern / now your entitled eyes are soil, / your heart going to anthracite?”) are standouts. In the same vein as her contemporaries Patricia Smith and Joy Harjo, Uschuk is strong in metaphor, urgent in language, and powerful in vivisection.” — Mark Eleveld
Monday Must Read! Sam Rasnake: Cinéma Vérité
This week meet Sam Rasnake. Sam’s works, receiving five nominations for the Pushcart Prize, have appeared in OCHO, Wigleaf, Big Muddy,Literal Latté, Poem, Pebble Lake Review, Poets/Artists, New World Writing, Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Santa Fe Literary Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, as well as the anthologies MiPOesias Companion 2012, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Best of the Web 2009, LUMMOX 2012, Flash Fiction Fridays, BOXCAR Poetry Review Anthology 2, Deep River Apartments, The Lost Children, and Dogzplot Flash Fiction 2011.
He is the author of Necessary Motions (Sow’s Ear Press, 1998), Religions of the Blood (Pudding House Press, 1998), Lessons in Morphology (GOSS183, 2010) and Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press, 2010). His latest poetry collection is Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press 2013). His latest poetry collection is Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press 2013).
He is chapbook editor for Sow’s Ear Poetry Review and has served as a judge for the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, University of California, Berkeley, and from 2001-2010 was editor of Blue Fifth Review. Since 2011, Rasnake has edited, with Michelle Elvy, the Blue Five Notebook Series from BFR.
Sam’s website: https://samofthetenthousandthings.wordpress.com/
Get Sam’s beautiful books!
Cinéma Vérité
(from fabulous A-Minor Press!): https://www.createspace.com/4377102
Inside a Broken Clock:
`https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=660
Read more of Sam’s work online:
http://www.connotationpress.com/poetry/1129-sam-rasnake-poetry
http://www.fwrictionreview.com/post/28048617961/three-poems-by-sam-rasnake
http://www.coriummagazine.com/?page_id=179
http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com/2013/06/some-last-things-by-sam-rasnake-so-many.html
Hear Sam Read his beautiful work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSOx7D62-NA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrBm91nmX6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjoGRro_1VQ
Happy reading!
xo
Mary
9/13/2015 Woke up hearing the heavens singing 🙂 Had to share ❤
Daily Prompt
“I heard an Angel singing/ When the day was springing/ Mercy Pity Peace…”~William Blake
Make art about everyday angels.
Woke up hearing someone sing this ❤ “Let the light guide your way. Hold every memory as you go.” ❤
Needed reminder that bodies may end, but Love never does. ❤
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Laurie Kolp. Laurie is an avid runner, lover of nature, mother of three, and wife to former Marine who enjoys living life one day at a time in Southeast Texas. She is the author of Upon the Blue Couch (Winter Goose Publishing, 2014) and Hello It’s Your Mother (Finishing Line Press, October 2015). Laurie’s poems have appeared in more than four dozen print and online journals worldwide including the 2015 Poet’s Market, Scissors & Spackle, North Dakota Quarterly, Blue Fifth Review, and Pirene’s Fountain.
You can find out more about Laurie on her website, http://lauriekolp.com
Praise for Laurie’s work!
Laurie Kolp’s new collection Hello, It’s Your Mother is a poetry that threads the hard truth of loss and grief to daily living – piano lessons, coffee tables, blueberry scones, and phones. It’s the ordinary made universal in the relentless will to sort the fragments of life, to give us something to hold, and Kolp does this well. Her writing skill never falters, never loses voice, allowing the real moments of mother / daughter relationships to find a strong connection in all readers. This is a remarkable and penetrating work.~Sam Rasnake, author of Cinéma Vérité (Editor of Blue Fifth Review)
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Because Kolp writes of the everyday, she writes of the familiar. These poems and the life they paint are recognizable. We see ourselves in the poems; we share the emotions they evoke; and the life and lives they represent become our lives. ~Glynn Young of Tweetspeak Poetry, Author of Poetry at Work
Laurie’s Work and More Online:
Upon the Blue Couch- Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Origami Poems Project (free micro-chap)- What You Left
Turtle Island Quarterly- Muffled (bottom of Chapter 1)
Gnarled Oak- haiku
Otter Magazine- Crushed Rose
Black Heart Magazine- 3 poems
Here is a link to an interview by Robert Lee Brewer on Poetic Asides.
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
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