"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! Michelle Reale: Birds of Sicily

michelle reale photoThis week meet Michelle Messina Reale, author of four collections of poetry including Birds of Sicily, and The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance: Elegies. She won the Twin Antlers Prize for poetry, along with poets Meg Tuite and Heather Fowler. The winning manuscript, “Bare Bulbs Swinging” was published by Artistically Declined Press in the 2014. She is also one of the authors in the collaborative anthology Shut Up/Look Pretty. Her work has been published in Verbsap, 3711 Atlantic, Underground Voices, Moondance, Lily, Philadelphia Poets, Yellow Mama, Unfettered Verse, Grey Borders, La Fenetre, and others. Michelle is an Associate Professor at Arcadia University. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She conducts ethnography among African refugees in Sicily. Her Italian-American way of life is a prominent source of her research, as well.

She blogs about many of her experiences and topics of research at http://www.sempresicilia.wordpress.com

Buy Michelle’s Beautiful Books!

Birds of Sicily

Praise for Birds of Sicily

Birds of Sicily is an exploration into the geography of proximity. Dipping relentlessly and empathically into the “shadow of lack,” Reale unravels travel to reveal the “life of hard work and paradox” that links us all.—Cameron Conaway, Author of Malaria, Poems


Michelle Reale’s Birds Of Sicily is an outstandingly powerful poetry collection which has personal resonance for me due to our shared Sicilian background. In these wonderfully written poems, Michelle explores themes of migration and finding one’s place in a new, unfamiliar world and culture. Not much literature is written on the Italian-American experience and Reale’s work is a most welcome contribution to that end. This is a work you will come back to again and again.—Julian Gallo, Author of Breathe

Michelle Reale fashions lines that bite and burn. The delicate yet fanged poetry in Birds of Sicily draws from the depths of history and blends voluptuous landscapes with raw depictions of human fragility. Weaving and blending together various poetic forms and structures, the language of each piece sings. This collection, both universal and deeply personal, remains with the reader long after they’ve turned the final page.—Janie Cannarella, Editor-in-Chief, HOOT Review

 

The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance: Elegies

Bare Bulbs Swinging

Shut Up/Look Pretty

 

Read More from Michelle Online

https://mockingheartreview.com/current-issue/michelle-reale

http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/november-2012-michelle-reale.html

http://wickedalicezine.tumblr.com/post/86509383189/two-poems-by-michelle-reale

http://boneorchardpoetry.blogspot.com/2012/04/michelle-reale.html

http://www.wordriot.org/tags/michelle-reale

http://www.connotationpress.com/fiction/1268-michelle-reale-fiction

http://www.undergroundvoices.com/UVRealeMichelle.htm

 

Inteviews

https://anewlookonbooks.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/february-writers-feature/

https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/interview-michelle-reales-interiors/

http://www.smokelong.com/smoking-with-michelle-reale/

http://thebirdsisters.blogspot.com/2011/05/introducing-paul-elwork-and-michelle.html

 

Happy Reading!

xo

Mary

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Daily Prompt <3 Apocalypse Ain't What They Say

1 June 2016

Apocalypse (Ancient Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apokálypsis, from ἀπό and καλύπτω meaning“uncovering”), translated literally from Greek, is a disclosure of knowledge, i.e., a lifting of the veil or revelation.

Make art about revelation, or about spiritual awakening.

revelation light

 

 

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Daily Prompt <3 Hoping We Remember Who We Are

19 May 2016

When everything finally has been wrecked and further shipwrecked, 

When their most ardent dream has been made hollow and unrecognizable, 

They will feel inside their limbs the missing shade of blue that lingers….

 

–from “Half Omen Half Hope” by Joanna Klink

 

Make art about your hopes for the human race.

peace-on-earth-hands

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Daily Prompt <3 I Call Them Angel Babies

18 May 2016

I spend most of my time with 18-25 year olds 🙂 I call them Angel Babies, Angel Chirren. 🙂 I call them My Teachers. Yep. They always teach me more than I could ever teach them. 

Make art about something learned from a young person. 

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Some Call for Submissions Love! New Mag: The Forge

The Forge Literary Magazine: Call for Submissions

Submissions accepted year-round.

“The Forge Literary Magazine, a new online lit mag, seeks fiction and nonfiction submissions. While we have no formal word limit, work below 3,000 words is preferred. Send us your best! Since we are a diverse, international group of writers, our tastes and styles are wide-ranging. Submissions are read anonymously year-round. We publish one prose piece per week selected by a rotating cast of editors. There is no fee to submit, and we pay all contributors.
Visit our website for better insight into who we are and what we publish:www.forgelitmag.com.”

 

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Daily Prompt Catch-Up! Porches, and Pictures, and Plans–Oh My!

 

 

13 May 2016

Headed off to teach a weekend Promptathon workshop at The Porches Writing Retreat 🙂

Make art about porches.

upper porch

 

14 May 2016

Saturday morning at The Porches Writing Retreat, and we’re working on Voices.

Make art about the voice you hear down in the hall.

hallway_to_heaven_by_aleco247-d7z1jqv

 

15 May 2016

I have a habit of collecting discarded photographs in thrift stores, those precious memories sold in estate sales, so many beautiful faces, so many voices, so many stories.

other people's pictures

Make art about other people’s pictures.

 

16 May 2016

Had some sweet winged company.

A luna moth emerges from its cocoon with not long for this earth. The average lifespan is a week, during which time they have no means to eat (no mouths). Their week (and life) goal is simple: to reproduce. To make love, the strongest of human emotions.

Many observers believe this to be a reminder of the importance of love in our short time on this earth. Live and love to the fullest and enjoy every experience that gets thrown your way. 

Make art about Loving fully in the moment. 

 

luna moth

 

 

17 May 2016 

Okay, so the garden’s cleaned up and turned over, but it’s pouring cold hard rain outside. So I guess I’m sewing, instead of planting today.

Make art about having your plans thwarted.

hard rain

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Daily Prompt <3 Two Lives

12 May 2016

“I called to say we have two lives/and only one of them is real.”~Claudia Rankine

 

Make art about the multiple lives we live.

 

living-two-lives-300x256

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Daily Prompt :-) Just a Little Gift

11 May 2016

I have a Creativity Promptathon Workshop Weekend coming up, and I always make small gifts for my participants. Nothing fancy, just something I made with my own hands. Small thank you for their trust and time. 

Make art about a gift someone has given you. Or about giving a gift. 

gift

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Newest Book Released! A Little Blood, A Little Rain

And it’s out!!!! So excited and thrilled to let y’all know that my newest book, A Little Blood, A little Rain, is now available from FutureCycle Press!!!!!

Thanks and so much Love to Diane Kistner, Robert S. King, and all the good folks at FutureCycle Press, and to Carmel Mawle and Jonathan Kevin Rice for their kind blurbage, and to all of you for inspirin me constantly the way you do! ❤
 
I’ll be looking into setting up some readings once I survive exams LOL but for now, this crazy lil book of prose poems is available here!

http://www.futurecycle.org/index.php/en/catalog/item/233-mary-carroll-hackett

Woot!!
 
Be sure to check out the full catalog of titles at FutureCycle 🙂 I’m humbled to be in such amazing company ❤ 
 
 
 

 

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Gratitude to Emily Ramser and Laura Dowswell at Change Seven

Thrilled and humbled to be a Recommended Read at Change Seven Magazine, celebrating National Poetry Month! Honored to be in such amazing company! 

7 Reads We Recommend: National Poetry Month by Emily Ramser and Laurel Dowswell

 

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