Welcome

This POETRY & PROSE page was created because we wanted to share with a broader audience some of the words that have resonated in the gallery during readings and workshops. In the same way that our exhibitions present so many different visions around a common theme, these writings sound an amazing array of voices.

Woman Made Gallery also publishes an annual datebook, HER MARK, featuring art and poetry. To read more about the current edition of HER MARK or for purchases go to the Special Page. Selections for Her Mark 2008 Art and Poetry have been made. The datebook will be available end of July and there is a release party planned for August 5th from 2 to 4pm.

Image: 'Speaking the Crone' Reading in conjunction with the "Signatures of Age" group show and solo exhibitions on Sunday, October 29, from 2 to 4pm. Readers were selected by Kathleen Kirk, editor for RHINO, and author of Selected Roles. Artwork images by artist Helen Redman.

Upcoming Readings & Calls for Poetry

Thank you to Lauren Levato, WMG's Poetry Coordinator, who has put the 2007 poetry schedule in place. We are looking to feature poets whose work fits into the theme of the following upcoming readings. As we continue to expand our poetry events, some of the readings may include a special juror/showcase reader. Entry deadlines are listed below. Please send all submissions in the body of the email (no attachments please) to womanmadepoetry@hotmail.com

PLEASE NOTE: If your work is selected, you must be available to present/read your work at Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois on the date of the Reading (listed with each event below). All poetry events are free and open to the public with light refreshments served.

We have completed our 2007 Poetry Reading series. Calls for poetry for our 2008 season will be posted here shortly.

Past Readings

Scroll down to review a selection of poems from Woman Made Gallery readings.

Pictured at right are poets who presented their work during the Prejudice exhibition. To see art from that show, click here. Participants included (clockwise from left): Selly Thiam, Evelyn Delgado, host Tara Betts, Lani Montreal, Nikki Patin and Lucy Anderton.

Pictured below is Nina Corwin, one of RHINO's contest entrants, reading in the park on August 5, 2001.

From Sham to Shame - 2/11/07

• Liu Minghe Speaks by Francisco Aragón
• Police Dog by Paul Martinez Pompa
• The Massa of Mount Misery by Mars Caulton
• The Torturer's Apprentice by Maureen Tolman Flannery
• Truth Incineration by Michael Warr

Her Mark 2004 Datebook Release Party & Reading - 10/19/03

• Mission Street Love Poem by Ruth L. Schwartz
• Of fire and rain by Natasha Carrizosa
• Sonnet for a Good Mood by Allison Joseph

Documentation - 7/20/03

• For Mom by Stephanie Erickson
• Harbinger Doves Filled the Evergreens by Lauren R. Mathews
• Weather Report by Susanna Lang

Her Mark 2003 Datebook Release Party & Reading - 10/20/02

• Introduction by WMG Staff
• Earth / Taste by Helen Schneider
• First Kiss by Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee
• Polka by Gale Czerski
• The Secret Thoughts of an Iraqi Woman by Melysha Sargis

The Political Woman - 9/29/02

• An Introduction by WMG Staff
• Black Mary by Kelly Tsai
• Switch by Tara Betts
• untitled by Duriel E. Harris

RHINO 2002 - 9th Annual Member's Show - 8/11/02

• An Introduction by WMG Staff
• Blue Human by Lucy Anderton
• Forgiveness by Patricia McMillen
• To Poem #---5 by Helen Degen Cohen

Between the Heart & the Land - Amanecer de Mujeres - 7/14/02

• An Introduction by WMG Staff
• I Have Been Painting on Leaves by Beatriz Badikian
• Intensidad--Ñ by Brenda Cárdenas
• Liviana by Johanny Vázquez Paz
• Origins by Ixtaccíhuatl
• The Line by Teresa Vázquez
• To the Visitor by Elizabeth Marino
• Traveling Light by Jennifer Morales

Autobiographies - 6/9/02

• An Introduction by WMG Staff
• Breaking Down Walls by Sofia (Sofi) Galarza
• I am a woman by Lydia Nelson
• The Watcher by Patricia Slaughter
• Untitled by Norine Baltazar

Inhabiting the Body - The Invented Figure - 5/5/02

• An Introduction by WMG staff
• "A child once said..." by Jackie Parker
• A Legacy by Helen A. Quade
• Mile-Thigh Travel by Krista Marie Vondras

Her Mark 2002 Datebook Release Party & Reading - 10/21/01

• An Introduction by WMG staff
• Grounds for Therapy by Mary H. Ber
• How dolphins find their way by Sarah Zale
• Whishing by Ellen Beals

Rhino 2001 - 8th Annual Member's Show - 8/5/01

• An Introduction by WMG staff
• Creation by Marty Campbell
• Dear Parents, With Love From Earth by Lori Williams
• Dress Form by Marian Jones
• Omens by Lina Chern
• Open to the Light by Cecilia Pinto
• Palomino by Mary Biddinger
• To History by Lauren Beukes
• Untitled by Erika Mikkalo
• Woman’s Crucifixion by Helen Degen Cohen

Deal With It - 6/10/01

• A Poetic Introduction to the Reading on June 10, 2001 by Maureen Seaton
• Abortion Stories by Anonymous
• Catholic Girl by Anonymous
• Circus Orgasm (An Exquisite Corpse) by Geiser, O'Banion, Odishoo, Seaton and Sykes
• Hand-cuffing Her Feet by Sarah Odishoo
• PIG by Anonymous
• Red berries, red lips, and a cat named No by Ginny Sykes
• two hands: white and black by Bernadette Geiser

Beyond the Surface - 4/29/01

• Body Language by Elizabeth Marino
• Editor by Nina Corwin
• Girls by Denise Rector
• Hey, Hey, Hallelujah by Shelley Miller
• His Words by Mars Gamba-Adisa Caulton
• I Sing in the Dark by Karen Stockwell
• Rainbow Eyes - A Fable by Sharon Klopner-Masters

Prejudice - 2/11/01

• A Mixed Message by Tara Betts
• Chicago Cherry by Lucy Anderton
• Sans Rhyme by Lani T. Montreal
• Sight by Lauren M. Woods
• The Anti-Poem by Nicole A. Patin