The Stay Project
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The Stay Project is an online space where you can submit your experiences of the here and now as they relate to our president. We want your feelings, thoughts, reactions, hopes, fears – however big or small and in any form. Literary, Visual, Performative, etc. Our only criterion? No hate. Nothing hateful. Please. We are here to hold space, to remain present and engaged. We are here to document. And we are here to Stay.
To help you Stay, we’ll offer a new set of prompts each month designed to stimulate your mind and your senses. To catapult. Use the prompts as directed or as you see fit.
Handcrafted by our lil hearts for yours.
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The Stay ProjectJune 3, 2020 · black lives matter,The Stay Project,Feminism,no justice no peaceBlack Lives Matter. Period. pc: @grahamzimmerman We're not sure what to say. Or that we, as...April 29, 2020Where's Your Megaphone, May? Fast forward to now. Take up the megaphone of May, adjust the...April 1, 2020 · resistance,transformation,poetry,artmaking,Time TravelHuman existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without...March 2, 2020 · The Stay Project,transformation,artmakingAs we enter deep and anxious into the season of rhetoric, some of us we three poets are noticing...November 27, 2019 · artmaking,transformation,resistanceThis month we are excited to feature Part Five: Measures of Protection, from THE UNIVERSITY, a...October 7, 2019 · transformation,The Stay Project,makeup,feminism,artmakingUtilizing the tools at hand, Vaginal Davis creates colorful portraits of women, pop culture icons...August 6, 2019 · philosophy,consciousness,artmaking,resistance,transformationPlants might be conscious but that's not what matters. Philosopher Kenneth Goodpaster argued...July 5, 2019 · feminism,artmaking,The Stay Project,transformation,poetryAmerica stop pushing I know what I'm doing.America the plum blossoms are falling.I haven't read...June 4, 2019 · pride,feminism,artmaking,resistanceShow us what those tentacles can do. This pride month - we ask you to come out of your shell and...May 6, 2019 · Feminism,The Stay Project,transformation,resistance,artmakingBy describing something we place it at a distance. My body is a fleshy thing, my body is tall and...More PostsSubmission Guidelines
We are seriously eager to hear from you. Send us your poems, portraits, sound pieces, lists, experiments, conundrums, rants, and responses. Submit your work to threepoets2017@gmail.com as a word doc, a common photo format, or as simply as possible. No PDFs please. Note - while we intend to document as accurately as we can, publication is ultimately at the discretion of The Stay Project.
Stay. Let's Be What Happens.
To see something through even if and so what... All of which brings us to the word "project," as a verb and as a noun. And the impetus of both. What's your project and what's ours? What are we going to project? Before the memes take hold and divert us from the reality of things, as they're so apt to do... Hold this space. Simultaneously, look into the next corner. Turn your whole body towards it. And follow through. Whatever your project, post it to social media and tag it with #projectproject today. Not tomorrow, but today.
And Stay (in touch) with your humble editors at threepoets2017@gmail.com.