Daily Prompt Love <3 So Much Power
23 August 2019
Make art about the power of story, of how story can change lives.
Posts tagged ‘power of language’
Monday Must Read! The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall
A must-read for any writer or storyteller, I think.
A New York Times Editor’s Choice
A Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Finalist
“A jaunty, insightful new book . . . [that] draws from disparate corners of history and science to celebrate our compulsion to storify everything around us.”
—New York Times
—New York Times
Humans live in landscapes of make-believe. We spin fantasies. We devour novels, films, and plays. Even sporting events and criminal trials unfold as narratives. Yet the world of story has long remained an undiscovered and unmapped country. Now Jonathan Gottschall offers the first unified theory of storytelling. He argues that stories help us navigate life’s complex social problems–just as flight simulators prepare pilots for difficult situations. Storytelling has evolved, like other behaviors, to ensure our survival. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology, Gottschall tells us what it means to be a storytelling animal and explains how stories can change the world for the better. We know we are master shapers of story. The Storytelling Animal finally reveals how stories shape us.
“This is a quite wonderful book. It grips the reader with both stories and stories about the telling of stories, then pulls it all together to explain why storytelling is a fundamental human instinct.”
–Edward O. Wilson
“Charms with anecdotes and examples . . . we have not left nor should we ever leave Neverland.”–Cleveland Plain Dealer
Daily Prompt Love <3 Privilege
24 April 2019
Make art about privilege, about those who have it, about the blindness of privilege, about those who abuse it, or about ways to use it to help others.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Hear Me Now?
6 December 2017
Make art about the roar, a time you roared, or wanted to roar, but didn’t. Make art about the need to roar, about where you carry that need to roar in the body. Write the roar.
Monday Must Read <3 Poets Against the War, Sam Hamill
Poets Against the War: The Movement, The Anthology
Led by poet Sam Hamill, February 12, 2003 became a day of Poetry Against the War conducted as a reading at the White House gates in addition to over 160 public readings in many different countries and almost all of the 50 states. Since then, over 9,000 poets have joined this grassroots peace movement by submitting poems and statements to http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org, registering their opposition to the Bush administration’s headlong plunge toward war in Iraq. Poets Against the War features a selection of the best poems that were submitted to the website. Contributors include: Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin, Galway Kinnell, Robert Bly, Marilyn Hacker, Grace Schulman, Shirley Kaufman, Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Hayden Carruth, Jane Hirshfield, Tess Gallagher, Sandra Cisneros, former Poet Laureate Rita Dove, and many others.
Buy This Beautiful Necessary Book
More Online About Poets Against the War
The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/poets-against-war/
In These Times: http://inthesetimes.com/article/49/poets_against_the_war
Voices in Education: http://voiceseducation.org/content/poets-against-war
Voices in Wartime Documentary (12 Minute Preview; Full documentary available): http://voiceseducation.org/voices-wartime-12-minute-preview
Excerpts From Voice in Wartime
Wonderful Reading by Sam Hamill
Write on, y’all!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt Catch-Up!
21 May 2016
Road trip to visit family today in northern Virginia, backroads and crossroads 🙂
Make art about intersections.
22 May 2016
Spent this precious day with my grandson and his beautiful mama 🙂 my daughter. Max, my grandperson 🙂 I call him Noquisi, which means Star 🙂 is already very vocal LOL a family trait 😀 I kept thinking about how, right now, at just over a month old, he has the physical capacity for learning every language on the planet. I kept listening to his wildly varied baby sounds, and thinking about how I wish we could retain—and fulfill–that potential, wishing we could all—all people—speak to and universally understand each other.
Make art about the power of language.
23 May 2016
I stopped on the way home yesterday, caught by an intriguing historical sign, marking The Church of the Blind Preacher.
Make art inspired by a historical marker, or by an intriguing historical character.
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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