Daily Prompt Love <3 Rebels
24 May 2019
Make art about being a rebel, about rebellion.
Posts tagged ‘resilience’
Monday Must Read! Undoing the Silence
I LOVE this book.
Undoing the Silence offers guidance to help both citizens and professionals influence democratic process through letters, articles, reports and public testimony.
Louise Dunlap, PhD, began her career as an activist writing instructor during the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. She learned that listening and gaining a feel for audience are just as important to social transformation as the outspoken words of student leaders atop police cars. “Free speech is a first step, but real communication matches speech with listening and understanding. That is when thinking shifts and change happens.” Dunlap felt compelled to go where the silences were deepest because her work aimed not just at teaching but also at healing both individual voices and an ailing collective voice. Her tales of those adventures and what she knows about the culture of silence — how gender, race, education, class, and family work to quiet dissent — are interwoven with practical methods for people to put their most challenging ideas into words. Louise Dunlap gives writing workshops around the country for universities and social justice, environmental, and peace organizations that help reluctant writers get past their internal censors to find their powerful voice. Her insight strengthens strategic thinking and her “You can do it!” approach makes social-action writing achievable for everyone.
Daily Prompt Love <3 That Fire
20 May 2019
Make art about walking through fire, about surviving the fire.
Daily Prompt Love Catch-Up <3 List
27 April 2019
Make art about what’s on that list. Or about taking a breath and stepping away from that list.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Blind
5 April 2019
” I learned my body like a blind child”–Darcy Cummings
Surgery on my eyes when I was a child resulted in my spending significant time without my vision. In the later years of her life, my mother went blind. The experience taught us both surprising things.
Make art about blindness, about being blind, about turning a blind eye, about what can be learned in the dark.
Monday Must Read! New Poets of Native Nations
New Poets of Native Nations by Heid E. Erdrich
from Graywolf Press
from Erdrich’s introduction:
“Native nations are our homelands, our political bodies, our heritages, and the places that make us who we are as Natives in the United States of America. More than 566 Native nations exist in the U.S. and yet “Native American poetry” does not really exist. Our poetry might be hundreds of distinct tribal and cultural poetries as well as American poetry. The extraordinary poets gathered in New Poets of Native Nations have distinct and close ties to specific indigenous nations—including Alaskan Native and island nations. Most are members or citizens of a tribe: Dakota, Diné, Onondaga, Choctaw, and Anishinaabe/Ojibwe (my tribe), and more than a dozen others. These nations determine their own membership and their own acceptance of descendants. My criterion that a poet have a clear connection to a Native nation has nothing to do with blood quantum, the federal basis for recognition of American Indians. Race also has nothing to do with it. Geography is not a factor. These poets live on reservations, in nations, and in cities or towns. Some of their reservations and homelands are urban; most are rural. Many of these poets have relatives across the borders of Mexico and Canada. Most are multiracial. They are also a diverse group in terms of age, gender, education, and poetic styles, but they have one thing in common. Not one of them identifies as “Native American” alone.”
Read more at LitHub.
Purchase this beautiful book here.
Daily Prompt Love <3 'Both furious and magnificent'
25 February 2019
“blessed be she who is both furious and magnificent” ―Taylor Rhodes
Make art about a woman who is furious and magnificent.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Discovering It Within
15 December 2017
Make art about discovering hidden strengths within, about discovering you are stronger than you thought, about a specific time you called upon strength you didn’t know you had.
Daily Prompt Love <3 It's Full, I Swear!
11 December 2017
“Sometimes, your relentless optimism makes me tired.” 🙂 my brother Bill
Make art about why that glass is half full.
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