My poem, "A String of Freedom" will appear in the upcoming 2007 HerMark Calendar published through Woman Made Gallery.
The 2007 Her Mark poetry entries were juried by Lisa Alvarado, Pamela Miller and Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai.
Here are Pamela Miller's observations: "I looked for poems that communicated women's experience with clarity and sharply focused precision, with rich texture and vivid detail, with sure-footed imagery and a contagious joy in the power of words. Above all, I looked for poems that moved me, made me laugh or struck me with their strangeness--poems with the power to catalyze the reader rather than just sitting there prettily like a vase of flowers."
Poetry juror Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai wrote the following statement: Over the last few weeks, I have been blessed with the opportunity to read, experience, and absorb over 240 poems from women across the country who chose to boldly reveal their stories with courage, conviction, and pride. Their stories span the earth from the most intimate portraits of garden flower petals to the horrific violence of Hurricane Katrina. They draw from the rich roots and textures of our various cultures that survive in direct opposition to domination, hierarchy, and isolation.In these poems, I re-discovered the passion that we, as women, bring to our families and communities, our responsibilities and freedoms. Reading each poem, I was renewed with the sense of why this work is so important. We write tocommunicate with our own hearts, to commemorate people and places that have slipped from our grasps, to explode our own sense of what is possible, to re-write what lays before us.My deepest hope is that as you jump into these pages that you too can sit with the humanity that so clearly presents itself with every image and every stanza break. Thank you for entering into this challenge to carve new space for ourselves by listening thoroughly to our own hearts and those that inhabit this earth with us. My only regret is that we do not haveenough pages to publish all of the positive effort that these women have dared to put forth into the world. -Peace and blessings, Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
The following 21 poets will each have one poem in the Her Mark 2007 edition: Tamiko Beyer, Maureen Tolman Flannery, Marina Garcia-Vasquez, Claudia Van Gerven, Lucia Galloway, Penny Hackett-Evans, Irene D. Hays, Luisa A. Igloria, Allison Joseph, Jane Knechtel, Kathy Kubik, Ellen LaFleche, Laura LeHew, Natalie Olsen, Susan Richardson, Purvi Shah, Bonnie Summers, Valerie Martt Wallace, Jennifer Weigel, Sarah Zale and Andrena Zawinski.
Her Mark 2007 is a 7" x 5.5" spiral-bound appointment book with weekly calendar pages and a bounty of poems and artwork in color. The cover artwork is by Lidia Simeonova. Both useful and inspiring, the Her Mark 2007 Datebook makes a great gift--for yourself and for all the art lovers you know! Her Mark Datebook contributors are selected via annual poetry and art competitions, which are open to women worldwide. This year's poetry jurors were Lisa Alvarado, Pamela Miller and Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai. Kymberly Pinder, Ginny Sykes and Beate Minkovski juried the artwork entries. The datebook was designed by Karin Kuzniar - www.kk-studios.com.
To purchase copies of Her Mark 2007, go to www.womanmade.org/calspecial.html, or call 312-738-0400 to receive the special discount price. Woman Made Gallery hours are Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 12 p.m. – 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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