"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

Posts tagged ‘writing coach’

Got Book? Let’s Make It Even Better!

I do lots of my group workshops, BUT

I also offer

One-on-One Manuscript Consultation and Editing in Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction

Let’s get together and let me provide you with a weekend consult at the beautiful Porches Writers Retreat in scenic Norwood, Virginia, giving your manuscript three days of undivided attention!

porches light

Got book? Let’s your beautiful work even better!

Check out the page for details! 

https://marycarrollhackett.com/weekend-retreat-one-on-one-manuscript-consultation-and-editing/

Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-)

Daily Prompt Catch-Up 🙂 

10/15/2015
I have one dog who thinks she’s Houdini, constantly coming up with magic ways to get out of my fenced yard. Make art about escape.

10/16/2015
“The sky hangs up its starry pictures: a swan, a crab, a horse”~Barbara Crooker Make art inspired by constellations.

10/17/2015
I’m conducting a workshop this weekend on Writing Prayer. Write your own prayer, or chant, or gratitude letter. Make art that is prayer.

10/18/2015
Nighttime & Dreams Daily Prompt
Last night I dreamt my beautiful friend Beth and I were escorting a huge group–hundreds–of people on some kind of trek to safety through a beautiful wild desert-like landscape. Beth walked in the front of the long long line of people, and I covered the back, making sure we lost no one. I carried a small child, a little boy with outrageously blue eyes, on my hip, We had planned for years for the time when we would have to do this, and so we knew what we had to do to get them where we were taking them safely. It felt good and strong and somehow celebratory, despite knowing it was a rescue and there was so much that had to be done. I was very glad to have Beth there with me.
Make art about rescue.

10/19/2015
First frost of the fall 🙂  My cold frames are keeping the winter garden safe. Make art about protecting something from the cold.

10/20/2015
Today included seriously the most amazing nap 🙂  Make art about naps.

10/21/2015
Thinkin on Call & Response. Call and response is a form of “spontaneous verbal non-verbal interaction between speaker and listener in which all of the statements (‘calls’) are punctuated by expressions (‘responses’) from the listener.” Make art using a call & response exchange.

call & response

Sometimes the Equinox is the Prompt :-)

Daily Prompt
 
Happy Autumnal Equinox ❤
 
Make art about balance.

Sometimes You Have to Let the Prompt Go

Daily Prompt

“Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.”~Kahlil Gibran

Make art about releasing control.

roots-and-wings

Sometimes the Prompt Catches You Unaware

9/13/2015 Woke up hearing the heavens singing 🙂 Had to share ❤

Daily Prompt

“I heard an Angel singing/ When the day was springing/ Mercy Pity Peace…”~William Blake

Make art about everyday angels.

angel street 2

Sometimes the Prompt Cuts Deeply

9/12/2015

Daily Prompt

Cutting out a new skirt this morning. Love to see it emerge from the fabric, the art of cutting away. Make art about this emergence from cutting away;

or reenvision one of these old adages, making us see it in some new way:

cut out, cut off, cut bait, cut the cord, cut loose, cut to the chase, a cut above, cut and dried, cut a rug, cut and paste, unkindest cut, cut to the bone, cut and run, cut from the same cloth,cuts both ways.

scissorpic

Daily Prompt Catch-Up :-) Salvage, Reconstruct, and Dreams of Lace

 

Daily Prompt Catch-Up 😀 Soooo busy around here lately! LOL

9/4/2015

Lots of thinkin this week about salvage. “The wreck is a fact…The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work.”~Kay Ryan Make art about salvage, or salvaging something.

 

9/5/2015

Sink, suffer, self-destruct. Rise stronger, reconstruct”~Lamb of God Make art about reconstruction, about reconstructing from what’s left.

 

9/6/2015

Someone I love is battling cancer. Make art about illnesss or disease.

 

9/7/2015

Dreamt someone I love brought me yards of unbleached cotton and lace. Make art with flowing white fabric, or lace, or lacing as the central metaphor.

 

 

Monday Must Read! Marilyn McCabe: Perpetual Motion and Rugged Means of Grace

Monday Must Read! 

marilyn mccabeThis week, meet Marilyn McCabe, author of Perpetual Motion, published by The Word Works in 2012 as the winner of the Hilary Tham Capitol Collection contest.

Peek inside and purchase Marilyn’s book from Small Press Distribution:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780915380824/perpetual-motion.aspx

A chapbook, Rugged Means of Grace, was published by Finishing Line Press:

https://finishinglinepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=1337

Marilyn’s poem “On Hearing the Call to Prayer Over the Marcellus Shale on Easter Morning” was awarded A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize, fall 2012, appeared in the Los Angeles Review.

View it at http://aroomofherownfoundation.org/on-hearing-the-call-to-prayer-over-the-marcellus-shale-on-easter-morning-by-marilyn-mccabe/

Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as Nimrod, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, French translations and songs on Numero Cinq, and a video-poem on The Continental Review.

Visit Marilyn’s blog about writing and reading at marilynonaroll.wordpress.com

Read more of Marilyn’s work online:

Valparaiso Literary Review:

http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v14n1/v14n1poetry/mccabelakeshore.php

The Cortland Review:

http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/52/mccabe.php

Interview at TNB:

http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/tnbpoetry/2012/04/marilyn-mccabe-the-tnb-self-interview/

 

Happy reading, y’all!

xo

Mary

Monday Must Read! Diana Whitney: Wanting It

Monday Must Read!

DianaWhitneyheadshotThis week meet Diana Whitney. Diana’s first book of poetry, Wanting It, was released in 2014 by Harbor Mountain Press and became an indie bestseller. Wanting It won the Rubery International Book Award in the UK and was shortlisted for the Julie Suk Award here in the US.  Diana is the poetry columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the winner of the 2015 Women’s National Book Association poetry prize, selected by Ellen Bass.  She is grateful to have received grants and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center.

Diana’s poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Crab Orchard Review, The Rumpus, Mud Season Review, and many more. Her irreverent parenting column, Spilt Milk, was syndicated for years, ran as a public radio commentary series, and is currently being collected into a risky memoir about motherhood and sexuality.  A yoga teacher by trade, Diana blogs about the darker side of mothering for The Huffington Post and runs a yoga studio in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and thirteen chickens.

Visit Diana’s website: www.diana-whitney.com

Get Diana’s book:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780988275522/wanting-it.aspx

Reviews of Diana’s book, Wanting It:

Gulf Coast Magazine:

http://gulfcoastmag.org/online/blog/wanting-it,-a-review/

Coal Hill Review: 

http://www.coalhillreview.com/book-review-wanting-it-by-diana-whitney/

Read Diana’s work online:

New poems:

Mud Season Review

 http://mudseasonreview.com/2015/07/poetry-issue-11/

One: Jacar Press

http://one.jacarpress.com/?s=Diana+Whitney#Diana%20Whitney

Book Reviews:

http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Poetry-John-Burnside-Jane-Hirshfield-Rebecca-6401935.php

Essays:

http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2013/08/10/kissing-essay-diana-whitney/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diana-whitney/raising-a-rock-star_b_5888600.html

Author interviews:

http://mudseasonreview.com/2015/07/you-never-know-when-youre-working/

http://www.penparentis.org/interview-with-poet-diana-whitney/

 

Happy reading!

xo

Mary

 

 

Sometimes the Dream Is the Prompt :-) and the Poem

8/23/2015

Daily Prompt

Last night I dreamt of so so many shining spoons, too many spoons to choose from 🙂 Someone I love stood at my side and laughed indulgently at my excitement about all of those spoons LOL

Make art about spoons. 🙂

spoons

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