tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-811345666647289852011-07-30T23:56:01.253-07:00L.B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18178375387148290344noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81134566664728985.post-48606165070174781352009-06-19T05:40:00.000-07:002009-06-19T12:43:00.866-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_z5tXqNd3_ls/SjuMzopjQsI/AAAAAAAAALA/PFoC7RtsbSc/s1600-h/001_draw.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_z5tXqNd3_ls/SjuMzopjQsI/AAAAAAAAALA/PFoC7RtsbSc/s400/001_draw.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349023801145508546" /></a><br /><br /><br />Hello Ladies,<br /><br />This is a call for submissions for a poetry anthology, tentatively titled "Cranky Town" - which is dedicated to poems infused with the irritability, despair, sadness and horror of PMS or Menopause. The collection will benefit the women's shelter herstreet: <a href="http://www.buzzle.com/articles/types-of-poetry-all-the-different-types-of-poems.html">http://www.laruedesfemmes.com/e_herstreet.htm<br /></a><br />If you've never written a poem, don't fret. It doesn't have to be majestic or profound. It could be a haiku, free verse, or one where you use each letter of your first name to come up with a line, as in:<br /><br />Leave me alone<br />I hate you<br />And all living creatures<br />No one understands my<br />Everlasting wretchedness<br /><br /><a href="http://www.buzzle.com/articles/types-of-poetry-all-the-different-types-of-poems.html">Here is a link</a> to a bunch of different types of poetry:<br /><br />I think Cranky Town will be a funny and therapeutic book. Not only for its readers, but for its writers. So please, next time that hormonal torrent descends, take pen to paper, and vent your emotion in a poem. You will not only be turning your rage into creativity, but also doing a charitable service for the many women who rely on the services of herstreet. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The deadline for submissions is August 1st, 2009.</span><br /><br />I look forward to reading your poems!<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Liane Balaban<br />Editor in Chief<br /><br />Here are some recent submissions to inspire you:<br /><br />A haiku by Kathy Baker:<br /><br />they say dry as sand<br />or bone, cotton, riverbeds<br />i say dry as me<br /><br /><br />An ABC poem by Elizabeth Arana:<br /><br />A bright crimson dot encroaches. For girls, hell is jeering <br /><br />kilos, laughing, menacing. Now, ovaries protest <br /><br />quietly, ruing scales tipped. Understand? Vexation! <br /><br />Waterweight! Xanadu: Y-chromosome zen.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/81134566664728985-4860616507017478135?l=pmspoetry.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>L.B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/18178375387148290344noreply@blogger.com8