"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

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Monday Must Read! Clare Martin, Eating the Heart First, and Seek the Holy Dark

clare-martinClare L. Martin is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and lifelong Louisiana resident. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies both online and in print, including Avatar Review, Blue Fifth Review, Literary Mama, Louisiana Literature, and Poets and Artists, among others. Her poems have been included in the anthologies The Red Room: Writings from Press 1, Best of Farmhouse Magazine Vol. 1, and Beyond Katrina. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2012), Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web (2011), Best New Poets (2009), and Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net (2008 and 2011).

Visit Clare’s website here: https://clarelmartin.com/

Buy Clare’s beautiful books!

Eating the Heart First

http://www.press53.com/BioClareLMartin.html

Preorder Clare’s new book Seek the Holy Dark!

http://www.yellowflagpress.com/_p/prd15/4592458541/product/clare-l.-martin—seek-the-holy-dark

Seek the Holy Dark  available for pre-order. Trade paperback, 66 pages, only $10. Pre-orders will ship in early February.

Praise for Eating the Heart First

“Clare L. Martin pulls off an impressive balancing act in her debut book of poems Eating the Heart First. In this collection, divided into three sections, she manages trust of her intuitive powers while she tats her findings onto poems built with technical expertise. She is a believer of dreams, and the whole of the work can be read as an oneiric treatise guided by the powers she believes in: the power of memory, the power of water, the power of moons, the powers of longing, and the power of love. In one of the late poems a crow in a dream asks, ‘Let me be a whorl of darkness— / Let me be a fist in the sun.’ All of the poems in this collection have the impact of that crow’s call and of the trope it creates. Gradually the poems reveal richly textured revelations of a heart tied to human experience in that ‘dream we cannot know completely.’ And, while we may not ever know the dream completely, Ms. Martin hands us a guidebook to dreams and to the art that uses dream and dreaming as the scaffolding from which to make something beautiful, and useful, and mysterious all at the same time.” 

— Darrell Bourque, former Poet Laureate of Louisiana and author of In Ordinary Light, New and Selected Poems

“Clare L. Martin is a fine young poet whose work is dark and lovely and full of a deep organic pulse. Like the landscape of her beloved Louisiana, her work is alive with mystery. You could swim in this hot water, but there are things down inside its darkness that might pull you away forever. It is an exquisite drowning.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Queen of America

Praise for Seek the Holy Dark

From the holy dark of horror storms and freedom in the hand, to starving wolves and old women who live in woods, Clare Martin’s poetic imagery seeks in myth to locate depth of soul. She incants salvation “bone by bone” up from the shadows. Her writing has a beautiful fury, a hard questing and secret exultation that keep the reader poised and intoxicated. “Do you seek the heart too” the opening poem asks, and of course, we answer Yes and read breathlessly on. These poems “drop through this world/into dark awakening.” The strong-hearted will understand.

~Rachel Dacus, author of Gods of Water and Air

Seek the Holy Dark is a book of revelations in poems.  Clare L. Martin sees the richness and the poverty that are bedmates, proffers them as gifts, lays them at our feet.  Her poems suggest we join in the quest to be both humbled and exalted. Martin, who never looks away, fully understands the duality of nature, its light and darkness, exploring both in this lush and lyrical new collection.

~Susan Tepper, author of dear Petrov and The Merrill Diaries

Visit Clare’s beautiful litmag: MockingHeart Review!

https://mockingheartreview.com/

Read More from Clare Online

http://wewantedtobewriters.com/2014/01/excerpt-from-clare-martins-poetry-collection/

https://referentialmagazine.com/contributors/m-o/clare-l-martin/

http://www.eclectica.org/v12n1/martin.html

http://www.redheadedmag.com/poetry/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=232:two-poems-by-clare-martin&catid=36:poetry&Itemid=59

http://www.unlikelystories.org/12/martin1212.shtml

http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue15/poetry_martincl.

Hear Clare Read!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yx32YG96f8

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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HeartWood Call for Submissions: Still Open for our April Issue

We’re still reading, but closing in on final selections for our April issue, so send us your best–poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction. 

Website: http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/

Guidelines: http://www.heartwoodlitmag.com/submit/

HeartWood

 

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Out of Many

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

OUT OF MANY MAGAZINE

founded by writers at Vanderbilt University, is seeking fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. We are especially eager to read pieces with multi–cultural elements. Submission is free, and response times are low. We publish regularly online and quarterly in print.

For details, visit outofmanymag.com.

 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-)Post-Broken Arm Prompts :-)

1/3/2017

Make art about kitchen utensils, about inheriting utensils, about replacing utensils.

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1/4/2017

Make art about bones breaking, literal or as a metaphor.

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1/5/2017

Make art inspired by an x-ray.

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1/6/2017

Make art about restricted motion, limited movement.

bound-hands

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) 16 New Prompts! Let’s write into the New Year <3

12/18/2016

Re-envision a fable in a contemporary way, The Emperor Has No Clothes, for example.

emperor-has-no-clothes

12/19/2016

Remember that old game Telephone? Make are where a truth is twisted until it’s unrecognizable.

telephone-game

12/20/2016

Make art about travel planning.

Hand writing travel plan

12/21/2016

Make art about needles and pins.

needles_and_pins

12/22/2016

Make art digging a hole.

digging-a-hole

12/23/2016

Make art about bread baking.

bread

12/24/2016

Make art about finishing something last minute.

last-minute

12/25/2016

Make art what you see in a baby’s eyes.

max-by-j

Max 🙂 Photograph by J Hackett

12/26/2016

Make art about the last flicker of a candle.

candles

12/27/2016

Make art inspired by what’s left over.

something-left-over

12/28/2016

Make art about cleaning up the debris.

christmas-debris

12/29/2016

Make art about passive resistance.

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12/30/2016

I’ve been working a lot lately with Archetypes, particularly the Maiden/Mother/Crone.

Pick an archetype and portray it in contemporary, unexpected circumstances.

archetypes

12/31/2016

Make art inspired by the song stuck in your head.

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1/1/2017

Make art about piecing things together.

quilt-pieces

1/ 2/ 2017

Make art about deliberately putting something on repeat.

repeat

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Monday Must Read! Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice

Planning to use this in my Intro to Poetry class this spring.

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resistancePoetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice
Edited by Francisco X. Alarcón; Odilia Galván Rodríguez
University of Arizona Press 2016

On April 20, 2010, nine Latino students chained themselves to the main doors of the Arizona State Capitol in an act of civil disobedience to protest Arizona’s SB 1070. Moved by the students’ actions, that same day Francisco X. Alarcón responded by writing a poem in Spanish and English titled “Para Los Nueve del Capitolio/ For the Capitol Nine,” which he dedicated to the students. The students replied to the poem with a collective online message. To share with the world what was taking place, Alarcón then created a Facebook page called “Poets Responding to SB 1070” and posted the poem, launching a powerful and dynamic forum for social justice.

Since then, more than three thousand original contributions by poets and artists from around the globe have been posted to the page. Poetry of Resistance offers a selection of these works, addressing a wide variety of themes, including racial profiling, xenophobia, cultural misunderstanding, violence against refugees, shared identity, and much more. Contributors include distinguished poets such as Francisco Aragón, Devreaux Baker, Sarah Browning, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Susan Deer Cloud, Sharon Dubiago, Martín Espada, Genny Lim, Pam Uschuk, and Alma Luz Villanueva.

Bringing together more than eighty writers, the anthology powerfully articulates the need for change and the primacy of basic human rights. Each poem shows the heartfelt dedication these writers and artists have to justice in a world that has become larger than borders. Poetry of Resistance is a poetic call for tolerance, reflection, reconciliation, and healing.

Praise for Poetry of Resistance

Poetry of Resistance is a timely response (via verse) to the current political climate of Arizona, though what the book ultimately argues is that these injustices have always been taking place—SB 1070 is simply its most recent manifestation. —Rigoberto González, author of Our Lady of

Alarcón and co-editor the eco-poet and activist Odilia Galván Rodríguez selected the strongest work from the hundreds of entries to shape this anthology whose communal message—a plea for social change—will remain timeless and resonant.–NBC News

Buy Poetry of Resistance here!

http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2590.htm

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Daily Prompt Love <3 The Study of Us

17 December 2016

One of my undergrad degrees is in Anthropology, and the gift of that, the ability to view ‘us’ through the detailed and complex lens I learned from my amazing professors in that field still, every day, shapes the way I move through the world.

I first discovered Anthropology in the library as a child, those trips we made to get books every weekend with my mama, and one of the things I first loved about the anthropology books I found was that, in those books, I found women–not as subjects (although that fascinated me too)–but as the authors, as the experts: Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, Jane Goodall. They were who I imagined myself to be as I “excavated’ arrrowheads and shark teeth from the plowed up tobacco field beside the trailer park where I lived as a child.

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“It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.”
―Jane Goodall,  British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace

“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”~Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist and author

“I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself, and one for the world.”~ Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist and folklorist

Make art inspired by anthropology, by an anthropological discovery.

anthropology-benedict

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Friday Call for Submissions Love <3 Wildness

WILDNESS: Call for Submissions

Submissions accepted year-round.

 

WILDNESS is an online literary journal that seeks to promote contemporary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that evokes the unknown. Founded in 2015, each thoughtfully compiled issue strives to unearth the works of both established and up-and-coming writers. For submission guidelines visit readwildness.com/submit or email submissions@readwildness.com

 

Website: http://readwildness.com/

 

 

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Daily Prompt <3 Disquiet

30 November 2016

“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I’m two, and both keep their distance”-Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Make art about restlessness, about disquiet. 

disquiet

 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Still Waiting for an Answer

29 November 2016

I’ve had only two brief replies to all of the emails and letters I’ve sent to my senators, members of Congress, or the White House. The two I have received came from Senators Kaine and Warner. Neither response actually addressed what I had written them. Neither response actually said anything at all.  

Nonanswer (noun (plural nonanswers)

  1. The lack of an answer.
  2. An answer that is so vague or noncommittal as to be worthless. 

Make art about someone giving a Non-Answer. 

nonaswer

 

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