Today's introduction to poet, memoirist, playwright, nonfiction writer, and musician Joy Harjo includes a video of her performance of her famous 'Eagle Song':

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/monday-muse-joy-harjo-performs-eagle.html

The Thought for the Day comes from the late John O'Donohue:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/thought-for-day_19.html

I've posted "A Girl Can Dream", a poem that first appeared as part of the Image-ine series at TweetSpeakPoetry. The poem is inspired by Nicola Slattery's painting "Red Shoes".

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-girl-can-dream-poem.html

A quote from poet Mark Strand's "Keeping Things Whole" is the Thought for the Day:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/thought-for-day_12.html

I saw Prince in concert for the first time this week. This was a huge deal for me. I have loved Prince since I was a teenager; his sexy, funky music was instrumental in helping me begin to connect with my own sexuality (as you can see in this essay I wrote for Nerve several years ago). Every time a Prince concert toured over the years, I was either too broke or busy to go. When I saw the announcement of a new…

No matter how much you train yourself to keep your creative work on track, you will eventually get stuck or want a fresh perspective. And besides, sometimes it’s just fun to give your creativity a jolt with a little exercise. A creative prompt can be useful for any of these situations.

There’s a slew of options for inspiration and creative prompts across the Internet … which can make it even harder to know where to turn when you’re looking for one right now. To get you started,…

Just came across this article this afternoon as I watched one more day slipping away without having moved my career, my writing, or my goals forward even a fraction of an inch--as of about 3:30 p.m.

How to Schedule Your Day

There are a few things I have done recently. I'm making a concerted effort to check in to my…

Monday Muse shares impressions of her reading of "A God in the Hosue: Poets Talk About Faith":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/monday-muse-poets-on-faith.html

Posted new poem, "Not Wanting", responding to today's image prompt at Tess Kincaid's Magpie Tales:

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/not-wanting-poem.html

A fascination with "what happens when you merge biology with technology" has turned Australian designer, architect, and classically trained ballerina Lucy McRae into a self-described "body architect". I've posted a brief introductory video about the TED Fellow in which she talks about her concepts and work to "re-shape the human silhouette".…

I've posted two sneak peeks from Alberta Chu's film about the construction of artist Anish Kapoor's  "Dismemberment Site 1", a work commissioned for Alan Gibb's sculpture park in New Zealand.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/05/anish-kapoors-dismemberment-site-1.html

The Thought for the Day, about confessionalism, is from Maryland Poet Laureate Stanley Plumly.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/thought-for-day_28.html

Amy Brill is a writer and producer whose articles, essays, and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including Salon, Guernica, Redbook, Real Simple, Time Out New York, and The Common. A Pushcart Prize nominee and…

Today's post features a clip from documentary filmmaker Robert Adanto's "3D: Darkly Digital & Divine", which explores digitization and its influence on photography, manipulation of images and visual truth, and, more generally, our "post-photographic" future.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/adantos-3d-darkly-digital-divine.html

Today's Wednesday Wonder is "grain chaser" Virgil Leih, a Minnesota wood-turner who reclaims native woods to create gorgeous monumental vessels.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/wednesday-wonder-grain-chaser-virgil.html

Monday Muse looks at "Speleology", a film by photographer Scott Rank and poet and sound artist Duriel Harris, who reads her poem "Speleology":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/monday-muse-poet-sound-artist-duriel.html

I've posted Thought for the Day, a quote from Richard Jackson's poem "Living On":

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/thought-for-day_14.html

I've posted Kahlil Joseph's award-winning "Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes" for today's Saturday Short.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/saturday-short_13.html

Anyway...he gave me an early draft of his novel to read in the summer of 2010, I think. And unwittingly rekindled an old, old passion I…

Producer, director, and cinematographer Ben Shapiro's fascinating documentary "Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters" is the subject of today's post, which also includes the trailer for the film.

http://writingwithoutpaper.blogspot.com/2013/04/gregory-crewdson-brief-encounters.html