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Thoughts on Creativity, Meds, Normalcy, and the Pikes Peak Writers Conference 2013
A conversation at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference spurs reflection from a psychologically-attuned attendee. Click on the link below.
Reflections on PPWC’s 21st conference: Fumbling Toward Normalcy | 1600 Words A Day.
Day Seven, NaPoWriMo: Write a Sevenling
2013 April PAD Challenge: Day 7 | Write a Poem a Day Until May | WritersDigest.com.
Zen
one wide brush
one block of ink
one roll of rice paper
one minute
one emptiness
one stoke
mastery
Enter the Castaways Poetry Competition
If you are looking for a challenge or for inspiration, check out the rules for this free poetry competition. Poems are to be based on sculptures in the city’s collection. Submissions are via email.
People Who Have Changed My Life: Part 2: My Dad
Here’s the second in a series of posts about people who have changed my life. This one is about my dad, a California Scene painter, and his influence on me as an artist, so I posted it first to my neglected art blog, Notes from a Virtual Easel. The link is below. I mention it here because writing is an art, too, and many of the same attitudes and disciplines apply.
Blue Mesa Review – A Literary Magazine » Online Issue #26
Here’s an online literary magazine I discovered today. Enjoy!
Blue Mesa Review – A Literary Magazine » Online Issue #26.
In the Company of ________: The Poem
Every Wednesday throughout the year, Robert Lee Brewer offers a fresh poetry prompt on his blog Poetic Asides. This week is his two hundredth!
He challenges his readers to write a poem titled “In the Company of __________.” Fill in the blank with whatever comes to mind. Click on the link to read the responses.
Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 200 | In the Company of Blank Poems | WritersDigest.com.
Here’s mine:
In the Company of Artists
when I was a child
I sat in the corner
and listened as my
parents laughed
and talked with their
friends in our tiny
walk-up apartment.
Once, at Christmas,
someone brought
my father a rainbow
box of colors and I
thought how wonderful
to play a whole
life long.
When I was a child
I stood low
and watched
as men in suits
and women in
best dresses
spoke softly,
admiring paintings
on the walls
of one or another
gallery and I thought
how wonderful
to share a whole
life long.
When I was a child
I sat very still
in the back
of my father’s
friend’s car
and watched
them paint the
afternoon, she
in the front seat,
he by the road
and I thought
how wonderful
to keep a whole
life long.
Write an Opposite Poem
Today’s challenge on Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides Blog is to write an Opposite poem, using a previous challenge post as its basis. If you have not been participating, you can scan the previous prompts on the blog and take the opposite point of view, choose a poem by a famous poet and write a contrary reply, or do the same with a poem of your own. I looked over the poems I have written for the challenge this year and decided to use the one I wrote yesterday, “The Truth About Art.” I wrote “Lies About Art.”
To read a fascinating collection of replies to this prompt, click on the link, and then, if you feel inspired, add one of your own. Anybody can join in the fun. You have to register for the blog to post, but it’s very easy.
2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 25 | Opposite Poem | WritersDigest.com.
Here’s my poem:
Lies About Art
The harder
it is the better,
after all,
it’s about
the skill,
the height
of the leap,
the length
of the note,
the flawless
reproduction
of a photograph
in an unforgiving
medium.
The best
is dearest,
after all
experts know
a fine
investment
when they
see one
and no
great poet
has died
unknown.
It takes
years to learn,
after all,
the wheel
has been invented
and there are
so many
conventions
to attend.
Besides,
who would
want
to be called
a child?
Linda Armstrong, November 25, 2012. All rights reserved.
Write a “The Truth About ________” Poem (Day 24 PAD Challenge)
For today, the prompt is provocative. Fill in the blank to create your title: The Truth About ____________.
Click on the link to read all the responses and then add your own.
2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 24 | The Truth About Poetry | WritersDigest.com.
Here’s mine:
The Truth About Art
It is a field
without a road
a forest
without a path
the vastness
of a rolling
sea. Though
many have gone
this way before,
none has passed
this particular
way. Though
many can help
with packing
and advice
none can come
along all
the way.
It is a journey
without an
end, a quest
for a cup
that can never
be held
in a hand.
2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 17 | How to Poems | Write Poetry | WritersDigest.com
Maxie Steer offers today’s prompt on Robert Brewer’s Poetic Asides blog.
It’s a how-to poem. Read the contributions of others and add your own.
2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 17 | How to Poems | Write Poetry | WritersDigest.com.
How to Paint
Set up a surface,
whether canvas,
paper or weathered
wood doesn’t
matter, at least
not at first.
Next, squeeze
out a bright
worm of color,
or mix it up
from powder
with medium
and binder.
Invite your
thoughts to
depart, opening
to other
forces beyond
them.
Then, pick
up the brush.
Linda Armstrong, 11/17/2012. All rights reserved.
One Way to Wonder 