"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 for women’

Daily Prompt Love <3 In the Distance

18 December 2017

Make art about what you see on the horizon. 

horizon

Daily Prompt Love <3 Stories of the Body

16 December 2017 

‘The Poet writes the story of his/her own body.” Thoreau 

Make art about a story, or stories, held in your own body, perhaps one that’s been hidden, or about where you carry story in your body. 

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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. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 One Small Act

14 December 2017

Our world needs kindness right now more than it ever has. 

Make art about a difference made by one small act of kindness. 

kindness

Daily Prompt Love <3 Coalition

13 December 2017

Make art about what’s possible when we work together, about coalition building. 

coalition

Daily Prompt Love <3 Hear Me Now?

6 December 2017

Make art about the roar, a time you roared, or wanted to roar, but didn’t. Make art about the need to roar, about where you carry that need to roar in the body.  Write the roar. 

roar

Daily Prompt Love <3 Fighting On Behalf of Love <3

5 December 2017

Make art about someone fighting to make the world a better place, an everyday Love Warrior. 

 

Daily Prompt Love <3 Tools & Litany

14 November 2017

Make art about tools.

tools

15 November 2017 

lit·a·ny (ˈlitnē/)
noun
noun: litany; plural noun: litanies
  1. a series of petitions for use in church services or processions, usually recited by the clergy and responded to in a recurring formula by the people.
    synonyms: prayerinvocationsupplicationdevotion

    archaicorison
    “she was reciting the litany”
    2. a tedious recital or repetitive series.
    “a litany of complaints”
    synonyms: recitalrecitationenumeration

Make art about or inspired or including a litany or a recited list. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Honoring

13 November 2017

Today is my late husband’s birthday, and the anniversary of my baby brother walking on to the next life. So to celebrate them, today, I launched a new literary magazine, K’in. 

They filled my life with so much beauty and humor and wisdom and joy. It only seems right to honor them by creating something beautiful. 

Make art about honoring the dead. 

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Daily Prompt Love <3 Times Two

11 November 2017

Make art about having or not having room at the table.

table

12 November 2017

Make art about breaking away from the herd.

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