Entry form available at

womanmade.org/pdfs/hermarkpoetry2010.pdf

WMG is looking to showcase a variety of compelling, sensitive, and provocative poetry by women for the annual HER MARK publication. All themes and styles are welcome. Selected poems will be featured together with visual art in a bound publication. The publication is 5” x 7”; poems submitted should be able to fit on one page of this size.

Poetry Juror: Maureen Seaton
Maureen Seaton has won numerous prizes for her poetry, including an NEA fellowship, the Lambda Literary Award, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the Audre Lorde Award, and the Pushcart Prize. She has facilitated poetry workshops at Columbia College Chicago, the School of the Art Institute, and at Woman Made Gallery. In 1995/1996, she curated a reading series entitled “Woman As Culture” for the Gallery. Maureen Seaton teaches poetry and literary collage at the University of Miami, Florida.

Calendar
March 6, 2009 – Final Entry Due Date
March 25, 2009 – Notifications Sent
July 31, 2009 – Her Mark Available
July 31 – August 27 – Exhibition
Sunday, August 2, 2009 Release Party & Reading 2-4pm
Entry fee: $10 for up to three poems

Emailed Entries Submit up to three poems with your complete contact information by email to gallery@womanmade.org. You’ll receive acknowledgment and an invoice for the $10 entry fee.

Mailed Entries Mail your completed entry form with up to three poems and a $10 entry fee to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60642.