The Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, hosts thematic poetry contests and readings to go along with art shows. This month’s show, “Size Matters,” offered a poetry contest that called for short, unpublished poems.
To participate in the contest, the six winners must be available to read their poems at the Sunday event. I was the juror for the “Size Matters” contest, and selected the six winners, who were Jan Bottliglieri, Kathy Kubik, Nina Corwin, Margaret Mikus, Robert Engler and Phyllis Natenek.
The reading was Sunday, April 23. We read in the gallery, surrounded by interesting and colorful artwork. I was delighted by the diversity of the poets, their content, theme and forms, including several sonnets that fit nicely into the “small size” theme.
Christine Swanberg is a local author and poet who has written several books of poetry and formerly wrote a column called “The Writer’s Garret” for this newspaper.
From the May 3-9,2006, issue
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