Category: Creativity
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New Issue! MANIFEST (zine): Perception
Issue #17, Perception WHAT ARE YOU SEEING? In today’s world, this question takes on a whole new meaning, doesn’t it? What are we seeing? What is real and what is imagined? How is my subjective response relevant to the collective real and important conversations? It’s critical, now more than ever, to validate what is real…
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Sleeping with Ghosts by Jen Payne: Blog Tour & Giveaway
I am very excited to participating in my second WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour! For four weeks in October and November, Sleeping with Ghosts will be featured more than a dozen blogs and websites across the country with book reviews, guest posts, book giveaways, spotlights, and interviews. It all starts today with an interview…
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The Artist as Anarchist
“The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.” ― Federico García Lorca
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The Divinity of Creativity
“You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creativity comes to a climax, when your…
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Eureka! Creativity Changes Your Brain
Eureka! The guy named Archimedes ran nude out of his bath tub to the town once he found out the idea the amount of water displaced from the tub was equal to the volume of the object immersed. That is an example of an intuitive creativity. Creativity had already been a vital force in science…
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Love Poems to the Something Greater within All of Us
EVIDENCE OF FLOSSING: What We Leave Behind Poems & Musings by Jen Payne 80+ Original & Vintage Color Photographs Would God floss? Do spiders sing? Can you see the Universe in your reflection? Part social commentary, part lament, the poems in Evidence of Flossing: What We Leave Behind are, at their heart, love poems to…
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What is life without music?
What is life without poetry?What is life without music? Sponsor MANIFEST (zine) today for just $25.00 and get 2 issue of this new art/poetry zine PLUS a FREE Spotify playlist that dances around the themes of change and Divine Intervention. CLICK HERE to learn more, or just… ONE ISSUEJuly 2020Divine Intervention$5.00 SUBSCRIPTIONAnnual, 20202 issues$10.00 PROJECT…
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MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention
Part artist book, part chapbook, MANIFEST (zine) is the creation of Branford, CT writer / poet / artist Jen Payne. Consider it a hold-in-your-hands art installation featuring Jen’s writing and mixed-media collage work, along with photography, quotes, and bits and pieces of whatnot that rise to the surface as she meditates on a theme. Layered…
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MANIFEST (zine) : A New Publication from 3 Chairs
Part artist book, part chapbook, MANIFEST (zine) is the creation of writer / poet / artist Jen Payne. Consider it a hold-in-your-hands art installation featuring Jen’s writing and mixed-media collage work, along with photography, quotes, and bits and pieces of whatnot that rise to the surface as she meditates on a theme. Layered with colors,…
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Finding Inspiration
When I told a friend last spring that I was writing a poem a day for National Poetry Month, she asked me how I found the inspiration for 30 poems. “It’s like rummaging around in a junk drawer,” I told her. “You’re bound to put your hands on something!” And sure enough, one April, I…
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A Holiday Toast
“Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.” — JANE KENYON — Happy Holidays & Heartfelt Best Wishes…
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Hi, All Your Readers…
The question gets posed often, by Literary Hub and Shelf Awareness and BuzzFeed: What were your most influential books as a kid? And we all respond: Little Women or The Secret Garden, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or Harry Potter. Even I would start to tell you James and the Giant Peach and The Boxcar…
Three Chairs Publishing 