Sometimes the Prompt is Unsung
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“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell
Make art about heroism, about heroes.
Posts tagged ‘writing-in-the-real-world’
Sometimes the Prompt is on Fire
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“When born you inherit what’s burning.”~Liam Rector Tattooed on my right arm. Considering the courage of the activists at University of Missouri.
Make art about protest.
Monday Must Read! Christine Stoddard: The Children of Jackson Ward
This week meet Christine Stoddard, a Salvadoran-Scottish-American writer and artist. In 2014, Folio Magazine named her one of the media industry’s top 20 visionaries in their 20s for starting Quail Bell Magazine. She also is a Puffin Foundation national emerging artist. She has edited two anthologies for Quail Bell Magazine, in addition to co-authoring Images of America: Richmond Cemeteries and directing a documentary on Edgar Allan Poe.
Currently, she is completing her book, Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia, for The History Press. Christine’s work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, So to Speak, The New York Transit Museum, Bustle, Yellow Chair Review, the Poe Museum, local PBS stations, and beyond.
In early 2016, Christine will be participating in Tupelo Press’ 30/30 Project and completing a writing residency at Sundress Academy for the Arts.
Learn more about her at www.wordsmithchristine.com
More from Christine online!
The Children of Jackson Ward, an art project with a social justice perspective. http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/about/the-children-of-jackson-ward-manuscript
YesPoetry
http://yespoetry.com/post/108735306281/photo-poetry-christine-stoddard
Brooklyn Quarterly
http://brooklynquarterly.org/tbq-artist-series-christine-stoddard/
The Poet Time
Fourth and Sycamore
http://fourthandsycamore.com/2015/09/14/my-nightingale-a-poem-by-christine-stoddard/
Video
The Persistence of Poe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_eKwn5D8Vg
Everyday Seeing (from The Children of Jackson Ward)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRWdDriov4
Nine Flights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWVgBHla2Bk
Chalk Poetry
Before Morning Sobers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtFJu_XHvhI
Sometimes the Prompt is What the Heart Remembers
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“I know I’ve loved you before.”~Melissa Etheridge
Make art about other lives, about remembering Love.
Sometimes the Prompt Just Makes Good Sense
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“After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things”~Wallace Stevens
Make art about the practicality of autumn.
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #wordsmatter
Sometimes the Prompt Really Hurts My Heart
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Spent the day workin on a meal planning/shopping/cooking tutorial for some of my students who struggle with making their food dollars stretch.
In 2014:
46.7 million people (14.8 percent) were in poverty.
15.5 million (21.1 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty.
4.6 million (10 percent) seniors 65 and older were in poverty.
The overall poverty rate according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure is 15.3 percent, as compared with the official poverty rate of 14.8 percent.[ii]
Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure, there are 48.4 million people living in poverty, nearly 2 million more than are represented by the official poverty measure (46.7 million).
48.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 32.8 million adults and 15.3 million children.
And this doesn’t even begin to touch the problems of global hunger.
Make art about literal, physical, hunger.
Sometimes the Prompt is Rebellious
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Make art about protest, or art that IS protest.
#writingprompt #art #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #protest #wordsmatter
Mary Carroll-Hackett: Poetry and Prose 
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