Sometimes the Prompt Requires Action
Daily Prompt
First week in the online class is all about defining activism, personal and professional.
Make art rooted in action.
Posts tagged ‘poetry’
Sometimes the Prompt Is A Tender Touch
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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Monday Must Read! Shaindel Beers: The Children’s War
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Shaindel Beers, the author of two full-length poetry collections, A Brief History of Time (2009) and The Children’s War and Other Poems (2013), both from Salt Publishing. Her awards include First place Karen Fredericks and Frances Willitts Poetry Prize, Grand Prize Co-winner Trellis Magazine sestina contest, First place Dylan Days Poetry Competition, and others. She currently serves as English department chair at Blue Mountain Community College, as Poetry Editor forContrary Magazine, and on the executive board of PAWS, the Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter. She lives in Pendleton, Oregon, with a zoo of pets and a wild four-year-old son.
Learn more
Official Site of Shaindel Beers
Buy Shaindel’s beautiful books!
A Brief History of Time
http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/a-brief-history-of-time-9781844715053
The Children’s War and Other Poems
http://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-children-s-war-9781844719303
Read More From Shaindel Online:
“Death, Sleep, Beauty” by Shaindel Beers | Pine Hills Review
http://www.voiceinjournal.com/shaindel-beers-the-imprecision-of-language/
An American Meditation — Poetry by Shaindel Beers
http://www.theenchantingverses.org/uploads/4/6/1/6/461698/shaindelbeers.pdf
http://ithacalit.com/shaindel-beers.html#.Vm7AYEorLDd
http://www.shadowgraphquarterly.com/shadowgraph-quarterly-winter-2015/shaindel-beers/
Essays by and about Shaindel:
“Creep”: Thoughts on Abuse and Survival » Real Pants
Hundreds of Dollars | i believe you | it’s not your fault
Hot Teachers, Gaslighting, and Sexual Abuse in Academia: Reflecting on Essays by Shaindel Beers by Leslie Salas
Hear Shaindel read:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1wdbxsNAc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2tucUP8yYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5-ETvj3LeE
Sometimes the Prompt Comes to an End
Daily Prompt
Last day of grading, semester ending. Make art about something coming to an end.
Daily Prompt Catch-Up <3 Naming & Healing
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
“So many names, my mother, I’m never sure what to call you.”~Rudy Make art about names, about naming.
Monday Must Read! Sarah Busse: Do It Yourself Airplanes
Monday Must Read!
This week meet Sarah Sadie (Sarah Busse). Sarah is co-editor of Cowfeather Press and one of the Poets Laureate of Madison, Wisconsin (2012-2015). Her poems and books have won the Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Niedecker and Posner Prizes, as well as a Pushcart. Her most recent chapbook, Do-It-Yourself Paper Airplanes, was published in 2015 by Five Oaks Press.
Sarah teaches online at the Loft, at the University of Iowa’s Summer Writing Festival, and occasionally elsewhere. These days you can find her blogging at Dowsing for Divinity on the Patheos Pagan channel, tweeting as @sarahsadie1313 and occasionally posting articles, pictures and notes of interest at sarahsadiesadiesarah.tumblr.com. This month she is participating in Tupelo Press’s 30/30 poetry challenge.
Buy Sarah’s beautiful books!
Do-It-Yourself Paper Airplanesc
http://five-oaks-press.com/our-titles/
Somewhere Piano
http://mayapplepress.com/somewhere-piano-sarah-busse/
Given These Magics
Visit Cowfeather Press
Follow Sarah on Tumblr:
http://sarahsadiesadiesarah.tumblr.com/
Read More of Sarah Online
http://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=442
http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/busse.htm
http://www.dmqreview.com/nov02/bussej.html
http://www.dmqreview.com/nov02/busseo.html
http://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/03/sarah-busse-evening-walk-mid-march.html
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Sometimes the Prompt Requires Action
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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Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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