"This work is unlike any other, in its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot: matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan Beatty

Posts tagged ‘poetry’

Sometimes the Prompt Has to Cook For a Bit

Daily Prompt

❤ Makin Sweet Potato Pie with my daughter today.

Make art inspired by a family recipe.

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Sometimes the Prompt is in Your Own Hands

Daily Prompt
 
“For she was the maker of the song she sang”~Wallace Stevens
 
Fighting fall depression, I make things to push back the dark, sewing painting, etc.
 
Make art about making, about being a maker.
 
#choosingjoy
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MONDAY MUST READ! LYNN PEDERSEN: TIKTAALIK, ADIEU

Monday Must Read!

pedersenauthorphotoThis week meet Lynn Pedersen. Lynn’s poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in New England Review,EcotonePoet LoreSouthern Poetry ReviewPalo Alto Review, and Heron Tree. She has two chapbooks, Tiktaalik, Adieu (2014 Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices Series) and Theories of Rain (2009 Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Choice Chapbook Series). A full-length collection, The Nomenclature of Small Things, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in early 2016. A graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lynn’s website:

www.lynnpedersen.wordpress.com

Buy books!

Finishing Line Press

https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=2179

Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Tiktaalik-Adieu-NWVS-Lynn-Pedersen/dp/1622297997

Praise for Tiktaalik, Adieu

Science looms large and lives well in Tiktaalik, Adieu. Pedersen’s lovely poems speak for, and to, our ever evolving, rapidly changing natural world, wherein the human animal seeks peace, or simply survival, from “resting place to resting place.” ~ Nance Van Winckel, author of Pacific Walkers

Lynn Pedersen gathers the world into her poems: its classical elements, its intricate patterns, its infinite mysteries. She makes gorgeous lyrics of stars and bone. ~Tania Rochelle, author ofKaraoke Funeral and The World’s Last Bone

Interviews/Reviews of Tiktaalik, Adieu:

https://chapbookinterviews.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/lynn-pedersen/

http://dailydoseoflit.com/2015/08/17/three-questions-lynn-pedersen/

Find more Lynn’s works online:

Heron Tree

A Catalog of What We’re Not Meant to See” Heron Tree (2014)

http://herontree.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/pedersen2pdf.pdf

Wilson’s Warbler” Heron Tree (2013)

http://herontree.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pedersen1pdf.pdf

Cider Press Review

Begin” Cider Press Review (2014)

http://ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-16-1/begin/#.Vjdvy6SirmG

Eve Paints the Apple Tree” Cider Press Review (2013)

http://ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-15-4/eve-paints-the-apple-tree/#.

Sometimes the Prompt’s in Bits & Pieces

Daily Prompt

Dreamt and dreamt but can only remember bits and pieces.

Make art about fragments of dreams.

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Sometimes the Prompt is Fleeting

Daily Prompt
 
“nothing is truly mine except my name”~Stanley Kunitz
 
Make art about the body as temporary.
 
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Got book? Let’s work together to make your beautiful work even better!

Got book? Let’s work together to make your beautiful work even better!
editor
 
I offer full manuscript consultations in all genres, drawing on my two decades as a writing teacher, more than ten years editing, and lessons learned in pursuit of publication of my own five, soon to be six, books.
 
My consultations are offered two ways, by correspondence, or in a three-day intensive one-on-one weekend totally focused on your manuscript at the beautiful and inspiring writers retreat The Porches in Norwood VA.
 
PM or email at carrollhackettma@gmail.com if interested 🙂
Check out the website for more details!
 

Sometimes the Prompt Seems to Be Following You

Daily Prompt

We ran as if to meet the moon.”~Robert Frost

Make art about that Lady Moon ❤

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Sweet Sky Dancer outside my house tonight – Photo by me 🙂

Friday Call for Submissions Love! Bluestem, until December 1

Bluestem
 
“Bluestem magazine is waiving submission fees for the month of November and seeking fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. Based out of Eastern Illinois University, Bluestem produces two quarterly online issues (September and December) and an annual spring print issue. Please submit no more than five poems at one time, or one short story, or one creative non fiction essay, or five black & white drawings. Fiction / prose / essays should be no longer than 5,000 words. All work is considered for both print and online publication.”
 
We only accept submissions via our online submission manager ,which can be accessed at bluestem.submittable.com. 
 
Submissions close for the year on December 1.

Sometimes the Prompt Takes You Home

11/19/2015
Daily Prompt
 
“Man, you’re already home and you don’t even know it.
You have a room you can return to, and you’ll never outgrow it.
See, you’re already home when you don’t know where to find it.”
~The Antlers
 
Make art about refuge.
 
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #music #wordsmatter
 

Sometimes the Day is the Poem

If I could make days last forever

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