Daily Prompt <3
14 July 2016
Make art about finding somewhere to land.
Posts tagged ‘We are One’
Daily Prompt <3 Hard Travelin' for the Tender Hearted.
29 June 2016
“It’s hard to wake up sometimes and look back at your life with clear eyes, isn’t it? All the Hello’s and Goodbye’s, and all the things said and left unsaid, whether they were timely, or easy, or uncomfortable or boltfree, or jarring, or just plain true, at least for you, in the moment of their saying.And once you’re awake you have to listen to the now, or ignore it and pretend that it’s just not there. Tricky stuff for the strongest of us, and hard travelin’ for the tender hearted. Like pilgrims on some dusty trail, the long line of true believers stretches into nothingness, and the shadows of the don’t fit in’s move along like so much smoke, pungent and ethereal, lingering toward home.”~John Little Bear Eaton
Make art about the don’t fit in’s.
John Little Bear Eaton
Daily Prompt <3 On Work
28 June 2016
“if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is”~Philip Levine
Make art about what work is.
Daily Prompt <3 Are We Prepared?
27 June 2016
This morning, keep thinking about, hearing, a line from a poem by my mentor and friend, the poet Liam Rector, from his poem “This Summer.”
“Our motto: Fight to live; prepare to go.”~Liam Rector
Make art about preparation, about being prepared. Or about fighting to live.
Still listenin, Big Dog. Still miss you.
You can read the full poem “This Summer” here.
Monday Must Read! Amy King: The Missing Museum
This week’s Monday Must Read is The Missing Museum, winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize, by Amy King. John Ashbery described Amy’s poems in I Want to Make You Safe (Litmus Press, 2011) as bringing “abstractions to brilliant, jagged life, emerging into rather than out of the busyness of living.” The book was named one of the Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2011. King is also the author of the poetry collections Slaves To Do These Things(Blazevox, 2009), I’m the Man Who Loves You (Blazevox, 2007), and Antidotes for an Alibi (Blazevox, 2005). Her chapbooks include Kiss Me with the Mouth of Your Country(Dusie Press, 2007), The Good Campaign (2006), The Citizen’s Dilemma (2003), andThe People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press, 2002). Her poems have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and her essays have appeared in Boston Review, Poetry, andThe Rumpus.
King joins the ranks of Ann Patchett, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rachel Carson, Barbara Bush, and Pearl Buck as the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). She was also honored by The Feminist Press as one of the “40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism” awardees, and she received the 2012 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities.
King serves on the executive board of VIDA: Woman in Literary Arts and is currently co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv (WOMPO) and the Goodreads Poetry! Group. She teaches English and Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. Her poems have been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, and she has been the recipient of a MacArthur Scholarship for Poetry. Amy King was also the 2007Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere. Check her latest blog entries at Boston Review, Poetry Magazine and the Rumpus.
She co-edited Poets for Living Waters with Heidi Lynn Staples, co-edited the PEN Poetry Series and Esque Magazine with Ana Bozicevic and, for many years, moderated the Poetics List, sponsored by The Electronic Poetry Center (SUNY-Buffalo/University of Pennsylvania). She has also guest-lectured and conducted workshops at a number of colleges and universities, including Goddard College, Naropa University, RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), San Francisco State University, Slippery Rock University, and, forthcoming this spring, the Center for Women Writers at Salem College.
Buy The Missing Museum!
https://tarpaulinsky.com/amy-king/
Find Amy’s Other Books!
http://www.amazon.com/Amy-King/e/B004GEYJGC
Read More from Amy Online!
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/amy-king#about
https://tarpaulinsky.com/Chronic/amy-king.html
http://yr.olemiss.edu/piece/king/
http://www.3ammagazine.com/poetry/2004/sep/king.html
http://therumpus.net/2012/01/death-is-always-a-rumpus-original-poem-by-amy-king/
http://therumpus.net/2013/07/beauty-and-the-beastly-po-biz-part-1/
http://therumpus.net/2013/07/beauty-and-the-beastly-po-biz-part-2/
Interviews
http://www.bookslut.com/features/2010_01_015554.php
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs143/1110349281835/archive/1121363131353.html
Hear Amy Read
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3bunzTN3GY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijPfs3WEfbU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3OT8WbxWeQ
Happy Reading!
xo
Mary
Daily Prompt <3 What Will We Leave Behind?
26 June 2016
“I leave to you a curious loom,
That I have wrought my dreams upon;
I beg you lay your hand to it
and weave a pattern when I’m gone.”
~James Lovell
Make art about legacy.
Daily Prompt Love <3 Country Traffic Jam
25 June 2016
Encountered a little slow down on the road yesterday 🙂 Three calves had broken out and were gleefully chasing around, having a high old time 🙂
Make art about unexpected obstacles. 🙂 Or about unexpected freedom 🙂
Daily Prompt <3 See You Later, Arrivederci, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehen, Slán, Adiós
24 June 2016
Brexit.
Make art about choosing to leave, even when the choice leaves the future completely uncertain.
united kingdom exit from europe relative image
Daily Prompt <3 What Lightning Desires
23 June 2016
Wrote a poem this morning 🙂 Haven’t done that in a while 🙂 Called “The Girl Lightning Loved” 🙂
The Girl Lightning Loved
didn’t know how deeply she burned, was burned, her bones wicked through lifetime after lifetime….~Mary Carroll-Hackett
Make art about what lightning, about what lightning desires.
Daily Prompt Love <3
6/21/2016
I was raised Catholic, and in cultures that are very comfortable with the dead.
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.
May they rest in peace.
Amen.
Make art celebrating the dead. Or write a prayer for the dead.
6/22/2016
Hold on, to me as we go
As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you’re not alone
‘Cause I’m going to make this place your home
Settle down, it’ll all be clear
Don’t pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
Just know you’re not alone
‘Cause I’m going to make this place your home
~written by Greg Holden and Drew Pearson, performed by Phillip Phillips
Make art about remembering you’re not alone.
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