Daily Prompt Love <3 That Fire
20 May 2019
Make art about walking through fire, about surviving the fire.
Posts tagged ‘writing for women’
Sometimes the Day Is the Poem <3
I’ll keep this world from draggin me down.
Daily Prompt Love <3 The Procession
12 May 2019
Make art about the procession of women, about women ancestors, about the shoulders we stand on.
Image by Richard Mcall from Pixabay
Daily Prompt Love <3 That Question
6 May 2019
Make art asking the question you’ve been afraid to ask.
Monday Must Read! Crone by Clare L. Martin
Clare L. Martin’s Seek the Holy Dark was selected as the 2017 Louisiana Series of Cajun and Creole Poetry by Yellow Flag Press. Her debut, Eating the Heart First, was published in 2012 by Press 53. Martin founded and edits the poetry magazine, MockingHeart Review. She lives in Louisiana with her husband and daughter.
Read excerpts and purchase this beautiful book here from NixesMate
Praise for Crone
“Clare Martin’s Crone is a feast for eyes and ears, seductive in its use of both imagery and sound. Celebrating the sometimes terrifying, sometimes life-giving teachings of the wise woman, Crone evokes a woman’s coming-to-power, an epic “cronesong” of spells and potions in the form of poetry.”
–Sheryl St.Germain, author of The Small Door of Your Death.
Clare Martin’s Crone glows equal parts magic, music, and muscle. Her lines are laced with ambergris and jasmine, ghosts and wolfbreath. I would call Martin’s art a gorgeous dream, but that would ignore the blood, bone, and heart that drive this book at its core. Crone is the creation of a poet at the height of her powers, in full voice, and mesmerizing. Immerse yourselves in these lines, friends. You’ll rise from their waters cleansed and awed. —Jack B. Bedell, author of No Brother, This Storm, Poet Laureate, State of Louisiana, 2017-2019
“Clare L. Martin is a mysterious spellcaster. CRONE is a lush and dizzying monster of a poem. Coming through it made me see the world anew.”
Luis Alberto Urrea, author of House of Broken Angels
Special Weekend Call for Submissions <3 Voice of Eve
Voice of Eve Accepting Women’s Poetry and Art
Submissions accepted year-round.
Voice of Eve is a magazine dedicated to women’s poetry and artwork.
“We celebrate women, their spirit, and their expression through art.”
Please read guidelines at www.voiceofeve.net/submissions before submitting.
Monday Must Read! Starlight & Error by Remica Bingham-Risher
Remica Bingham-Risher, a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet, is the author of Conversion (Lotus, 2006) winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award and What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan, 2013). She is currently the Director of Writing and Faculty Development at Old Dominion University. She resides in Norfolk, VA with her husband and children.
Purchase this beautiful book here.
Praise for Starlight & Error
There’s starlight and sunlight – and no error I could find – in this elegant book where the soul shines through every line. Only when we see how richly the poems matter to the poet can they come so close to us – entering with inescapable feeling and authenticity. We believe, and live, what each poem says, because the heart knows truthful detail. Central to our humanistic beliefs are the love of daughter, wife, stepmother, lover. Here, we learn this all over again, and how complex problems like memory become strengths. Only perfect craft can make it all happen, with experience leading the way. Remica Bingham-Risher has written a world-class book of poems. It’s the best of the best in American poetry. This is no imitation. This is the real thing.–Grace Cavalier
 In Starlight & Error, Remica Bingham-Risher redefines the beat of the heart not only in the adult situations of romantic love but also in the adult decisions within the love of family. The scope of her vision helps us see into our own lives with a sharper focus. At a time in America when we need hope the most, this book offers us an open path; we no longer “wonder what other secrets/ we’ve been keeping/ on this side of the world.” Here- in her songs of forgetfulness and of memory, songs of the closed fist and the open palm, songs of regrets and of gratitude-we clearly see a world worth fighting for.–A. Van Jordan
Monday Must Read <3 Siren by Kateri Lanthier
What a BEAUTIFUL book!
Kateri Lanthier‘s work has appeared in numerous journals, including Green Mountains Review, Hazlitt and Best Canadian Poetry 2014. She was awarded the 2013 Walrus Poetry Prize. Her first book of poems is Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011). She lives in Toronto with her family.
“If you drop your weapons’-grade handshake, I’ll carry your kiss to the car.
Court controversy, skip the altar. What will survive of us is Spring.”
–from “Uncontrolled Burn”
Purchase this gorgeous book here!
Praise for Siren
from Vehicule Press
“Siren, Kateri Lanthier’s astonishing second book, calls us to attention. In her search for what she calls “compelling melancholy,” Lanthier’s new poems not only draw on the ghazal’s history as love poetry but remind readers of the dangerous and alluring quality of the ancient form itself. The siren was a lethal yet seductive figure, and that sense of power—and as well as her fast-taking bemusement at her own reputation—is present in lines that marry unnerving dream logic to emotional fearlessness. Siren is an uncompromising achievement: an original style at once mysterious, witty and musical that refines and clarifies the world in consistently surprising ways.” Call it playing with fire. Call it connect-the-dots lightning.”
“…a heartfelt cry after the shipwreck…a restless and fearless engagement with the world” – Green Mountains Review
“Desire, then, rules these poems. These poems are not sweet. They are remarkably beautiful just to say out loud.” -Hannah Brown, Toronto Review of Books
“Kateri is a full speed poet, no meandering allowed. One minute you’re a grand piano and the next a Formula One engine. Lanthier finds a way so that “coral has osteoporosis” and “The satellite dish and the satellite must weep for their decay.” Lanthier ties these disparate threads together into an information overload, poems ripe with jaw drop.” – Michael Dennis
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 Catch-Up! 9 Brand New Prompts!
20 March 2018
Make art about who’s watching.
21 March 2018
Make art about self-acceptance.
22 March 2018
Make art about what you’re hiding from.
23 March 2018
Make art about what you’re searching for.
24 March 2018
Make art about getting messages from the dead.
25 March 2018
Make art about when the mothership returns.
26 March 2018
“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard.”-Toni Morrison
Make art about that magical machine you inhabit.
27 March 2018
Make art about the growth that can come from encountering opposition.
28 March 2018
Always a visitor, always away.
Make art inspired by my visitor this morning.
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