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BARED contributors celebrate the anthology’s release - Happy April!

Meg Eden

Judy Kronenfeld

Margo Stever

Catherine Wald

#national poetry month #poetry #nationalpoetrywritingmonth

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more BARED contributor news & updates

Kierstin Bridger - New book: All Ember (Urban Farmhouse Press). Monthly Poetry Series: Open Bard in a Ridgway, CO

Jane Satterfield - New book: Apocalypse Mix, winner of 2016 Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by David St. John. New anthology, co-edited with Laurie Kruk: Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland (Demeter, 2016).

Virginia Chase Sutton - Work featured in Peacock Journal, Queen of Cups; new chapbook, Down River, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

Laura Shovan - Laura Shovan's novel in verse for children, THE LAST FIFTH GRADE OF EMERSON ELEMENTARY. was named an NCTE 2017 Notable Verse Novel and won the 2016 CYBILS award for poetry.

Jennifer Perrine - New poems will be coming out soon in Rattle, Cream City Review, and the Older Queer Voices online anthology.

Lisa Lewis - New poems appear or are forthcoming in Burnside Review, Cloudbank, Kestrel, No Tokens, Grist, Four Way Review, Florida Review, and WomenArtsQuarterly.

Alice Friman - Alice Friman’s latest collection is The View from Saturn, LSU 2014. Her previous collection, Vinculum, LSU 2011, won the 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry. She won a 2012 Pushcart Prize and is included in Best American Poetry 2009. Friman is Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College.

Kate Falvey - A new book of poems from David Robert Books: The Language of Little Girls

Barbara Schmitz - Reissue WHAT BOB SAYS Wayne State Press

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BARED contributor news & updates

MANDEM - We received a grant for our disability poetics painting series "Hypermobility" here.

Susan Jamison - I will be having a solo exhibition at Chroma Projects in Charlottesville, VA in April, 2017.

Maryann Corbett - My fourth book, Street View, will be published by Able Muse Press in the summer of 2017.

Jehanne Dubrow - My sixth book, Dots & Dashes, won the Crab Orchard Review Open Competition Poetry Prize and will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in August 2017.

Sally Bliumis-Dunn - My poem, "Heart" will be read by Stuart Kestenbaum, Maine's Poe Laureate on Maine public radio's program called, "Poems from Here."

Chuka Susan Chesney - Three of my poems have been accepted into two zines and an event in Michigan. My poem "Marilyn's Pose" and a painting I created of Marilyn Monroe will be published together in Issue #4 of Inklette zine. My poem "My Last Meal" and my painting "Cake at the Wake" will be published in the upcoming "Buried"-themed issue of Claudius Speaks. My poem "California Jane and Mr. Rochester" will be included in the Poetry Leaves Outdoor Poetry Exhibition in Waterford, Michigan.

Judy Kronenfeld - My fourth collection of poetry, BIRD FLYING through the BANQUET, comes out from FutureCycle Press by March 20th, 2017.

Catherine Arra - My third chapbook, Tales of Intrigue & Plumage was accepted for publication by FutureCycle Press on December 25, 2016. Fall release expected.

Susan Rich - I've published poems in all 50 states and 1 district

Margo Taft Stever - CavanKerry Press has accepted my second full length collection, CRACKED PIANO, for publication in 2019.

Shirley J. Brewer - My third book of poetry, Bistro in Another Realm, is forthcoming in late spring, early summer, 2017, from Main Street Rag Press.

ALICIA OSTRIKER - New collection of poems next February: WAITING FOR THE LIGHT, University of Pittsburgh Press. Includes a suite of poems on New York City, my original hometown, where I now am again at last a citizen.

Alexis Rhone Fancher - My poem, "When I turned fourteen, my mother's sister took me to lunch and said:" was published in The Best American Poetry 2016.

Amy Small-McKinney - My second full-length book of poems, Walking Toward Cranes, won the Kithara Book Prize 2016 and is forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press. It is due to be released end of January- beginning of February, 2017.

Lorene Delany-Ullman - In coloration with Jody Servon, our photography and prose poem project, Saved: Objects of the Dead, will be exhibited at Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, NC in 2017.

Rebecca Foust - My short story, "Something Blue," won the 2015 American Literary Review fiction prize and was nominated for a Pushcart in 2016. Jane Hirshfeld chose "Iconostasis" for the 2015 Jame Hearst Poetry Prize and nominated it for a pushcart in 2016. New poems are in Arroyo Review, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, and 32 Poems. I'm teaching the Sonnet workshop at West Chester Poetry Conference in 2017.

Diane Lockward - My book The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop was published in Sept 2016. In October 2016 I started Terrapin Books, a small press for poetry books.

bonnie stufflebeam - My novelette "The Orangery" just appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Trish Hopkinson - I have a chapbook entitled "Footnote" forthcoming from Lithic Press in 2017.

Julie Danho - In 2016, I received a $25,000 MacColl Johnson Fellowship to support the completion of my book manuscript:

Lana Hechtman Ayers - My poem the The Moon's Answer was published as a handmade, illustrated book by Anita K. Boyle of Egress Studio Press.

Ann Bracken - My second collection of poems, No Barking in the Hallways: Poems from the Classroom, was published by New Academia Publishing, Scarith Imprint, in January, 2017.

Natalie Voelker - I'm collaborating with Reyes Padilla on a large scale mural installation titled "La Joya 2017" for the Harwood Art Center that goes up the first week in March. Composed of 6 24 foot panels, the piece explores the lives of women and girls that attended the Harwood Girls School in the 1930s.

mary beth smith - I won the Peter Honegger Best One-Act Play award for KEEP A-BREAST, a play that offers insight to my bizarre experiences surviving breast cancer. KEEP A-BREAST was performed in The Firehouse Center for the Arts 2014 New Works Festival in Newburyport, MA, during which I received the Honegger award.

Sarah Ann Winn - My first book won the Barrow Street Book Prize, and will be published by Barrow Street Press in October 2017.

Erin M. Bertram - I have three chapbooks forthcoming: "from The Vanishing of Camille Claudel" (Seven Kitchens Press); "Relief Map" (C&R Press, a winner of the 2016 Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Competition); and "Gender/Genre" (Red Bird Chapbooks). I also have a poem forthcoming in "Tupelo Quarterly" entitled "There Is a Wilderness, There Will Always Be." And I have an upcoming artist residency at The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences in March 2017.

Carine Topal - "Tattooed," my poetry collection about the Holocaust, written in the voices of the victims, perpetrators, and the survivors, was chosen by Kelly Cherry, and won the 2015 Palettes & Quills 4th Annual Poetry Contest.

Jane Otto - I recently joined Poetry Society of America as a Board member

Joy Ladin - My eighth collection, Fireworks in the Graveyard, is due out this year from Headmistress Press.

Sue Ellen Thompson - My fifth book, THEY, is out and available on Amazon.com.

Melissa Balmain - Light (the journal of light verse I edit) has a wonderful new issue coming out in early Feb. '17 (and another due in early Aug. '17)

Francesca Bell - Red Hen Press will publish my first book in early 2019.

Meg Eden - My debut novel "Post-High School Reality Quest" is coming out in June!

Barbara Rockman - Askew Journal recently nominated my poem, "Ladder of Bone Rungs," for a Pushcart Prize. My second collection of poetry, "Cleave and Splinter" is forthcoming form University of New Mexico Press.

Sarah A. Chavez - I have work in the recently released anthology, IMANIMAN Anthology: A Call to Poets to Reflect on Gloria Anzaldúa and Transformative/Transgressive Borders.

Andrea Potos - I was just awarded the William Stafford Prize for Poetry from Rosebud Magazine.

Anne Harding Woodworth - See the animation of poems from my chapbook, The Last Gun.

Becky Breed - Our book "Writing tin Community: Say Goodbye to Writer's Block and Transform Your Life" is available for sale

Tara Betts - Just released my second poetry collection BREAK THE HABIT and co-edited THE BEIGING OF AMERICA, which will be released in Spring 2017.

Julie Brooks Barbour - My second full-length collection, Haunted City, is now available from Kelsay Books

Alyse Knorr - My new book Mega-City Redux, which contains the poems featured in BARED, launches at AWP 2017.

Lesléa Newman - My newest poetry collection, I CARRY MY MOTHER (Headmistress Press) which explores a daughter's journey through her mother's illness and death and how she carries on without her received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award ("Goldie") and was named a "Must Read" title by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

Jackie Fox - My most recent news is having two of my poems accepted in Yellow Chair Review's pop culture issue.

Janet Ruth Heller - My poem "Flamboyance" was published by the online literary journal Persimmon Tree (Winter 2017).

Laura E. Davis - I'm starting a new interview series on my blog Dear Outer Space about the intersection of art and activism. I'm actively seeking people to participate!

KC Trommer - I'll be reading at three events in NYC in April.

Cathy Sarkowsky - Please see my website

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Les Femmes Folles: The Women, 2016

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Les Femmes Folles: Women in Art, releases the sixth edition of Les Femmes Folles: The Women, with 2016 including art, writing and interview excerpts from women in all forms, styles and levels of art (listed below). Cover art by Gao Rong: “Triangle 1,” wood and thread, 2015. Image courtesy of Klein Sun Gallery and the artist © Gao Rong. Available for purchase at http://www.blurb.com/user/store/sallydeskins. Editor: Sally Deskins, [email protected] femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com

Cover art: Gao Rong: “Triangle 1,” wood and thread, 2015. Image courtesy of Klein Sun Gallery and the artist © Gao Rong.

Why is this important? - To serve as a physical tribute/document to the stellar talent of women working creatively today, as LFF blog serves as a platform for them online. - To display the wide range of women working creatively – not just diversity of media, subject matter or location/background/culture, but of perspective within the arts and within feminism. - To let readers find work that grabs them to look the artists up to find out more about their work as a patron, collaborator or fan. - To introduce new conversations between works as they are curated in the book. - To be a beautiful and inspiring book to leaf through or relish in.

Visual artists featured: Adorable Monique, Autumn Ghubril, Aya Kawabata, Carolyn Barritt, Christine Palamidessi, Cynthia Karasek, Deborah Kiss Holtschlag, Dr. Nubian Sun, Elizabeth Liang, Emily Mulenga, Evie Zimmer, Fanny Allié, Florence Yee, Gabriela Aguero, Gao Rong, Jayde Archbold, Jennifer Ellifritz, Joelle Circé, Julia Randall, Julianne Aguilar, Kathy Crabbe, Katrina Majkut, Kim Rae Taylor, Kimberly Sexton, Kristen Letts Kovak, Laura Mitchell, Lauren Kalman, Lee Bullitt, Leslie Kerby, Lily Prince, Lis Grace, Mamta Chitnis Sen, Marcela Florido, Margarita Gokun Silver, Marley Korzen, Melinda Stickney-Gibson, Nancy Daubenspeck, Olena Marshall, Peili, Rachel Woroner, Rebecca George, Roberta Masciarelli, Sarah Beth Woods, Sarika Goulatia, Stefani Allegretti, Tania Ferrier, Tormented Sugar, Ula Einstein, Vanessa Madrid, and Veronica Weisberg.

Writers: AE Clark, Alison Stone, Deborah McQueen, Elizabeth Tsung, Emily Corwin, Janene Scott, Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Julianne Carlile, Kelsey Clifton, Lesléa Newman, Nicole Rollender, Rita Maria Martinez, Star Labranche, Stephanie Valente, Susan Castillo Street, and Trish Hopkinson.

Also featuring curator Tara Fay, actor Patricia Cardona Roca and tarot card reader and creative guide Tabitha Dial, and artists and writers from LFF’s special series: Teresa Svoboda (writer), Myriam Thyes (artist), Elise Brazeal-Daganaar (illustrator/writer), Nancy Gerber (poet), Brigitte Neufeldt (artist), and collaborators KJ Greenberg and Julia Rolfe (art/poetry).

Les Femmes Folles is a volunteer organization founded in 2011 with the mission to support and promote women in all forms, styles and levels of art from around the world with the online journal, print annuals, exhibitions and events; originally inspired by artist Wanda Ewing and her curated exhibit by the name Les Femmes Folles (Wild Women). LFF was created and is curated by Sally Deskins. LFF Books is a micro-feminist press that publishes 1-2 books per year by the creators of Les Femmes Folles including the award-winning Intimates & Fools (Laura Madeline Wiseman, 2014) and The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales (Laura Madeline Wiseman/Lauren Rinaldi, 2015). Other titles include Les Femmes Folles: The Women 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 available on blurb.com, including art, poetry and interview excerpts from women artists. See the latest call for work on the Submissions page.

Femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com lesfemmesfollesbooks.tumblr.com facebook.com/femmefolles @lffsallydeskins For more information contact LFF Editor Sally Deskins at [email protected].

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2016 women and posts:

Adorable Monique, artist, July 14 Stefani Allegretti, artist, Oct. 18 Jayde Archbold, artist, March 15 Gabriele Aguero, artist, November 28 Julianne Aguilar, artist, March 29 Fanny Allie, artist, Feb. 1 Carolyn Barritt, artist, Aug. 26 Lee Bullitt, artist, Feb. 9 Julianne Carlile, writer, Feb. 22 Susan Castillo Street, writer, May 12 Joelle Circe, artist, Aug 11 A.E. Clark, poet, May 16 Kelsey Clifton, writer, Aug 14 Patricia Cordona, director, Dec. 26 Emily Corwin, poet, June 30 Kathy Crabbe, artist, July 5 Nancy Daubenspeck, artist, Aug. 29 Tabitha Dial, tarot card and tea leaf reader, creative mentor, April 1 Ula Einstein, artist, May 27 Jennifer Ellifritz, artist, Sept. 18 Tara Fay, curator, Aug 1 Tania Ferrier, artist, July 28 Marcela Florido, artist, May 2 Rebecca George, artist, March 22 Autumn Ghubril, artist, Sept. 26 Sarika Goulatia, artist, Feb. 3 Lis Grace, Aug 3 Deborah Kiss Holtschlag, artist, Oct. 24 Trish Hopkinson, writer, Jan. 26 Lauren Kalman, artist, November 14 Cynthia Karasek, artist, July 12 Aya Kawabata, artist, Sept. 22 Leslie Kerby, artist, Aug 10 Marley Korzen, artist/writer, Feb. 17 Kristen Letts Kovak, artist, Jan. 7 Star LaBranche, writer, February 29 Neena Lal, Aug 17 Elizabeth Liang, artist, April 11 Vanessa Madrid, artist, Jan. 4 Katarina Majkut, artist, Aug 19 Olena Marshall, artist, May 20 Rita Maria Martinez, writer, April 22 Roberta Masciarelli, artist, Jan. 14 Ibeth Massarri, performance, Dec. 28 Debra McQueen, writer, June 5 Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, writer, June 19 Laura Mitchell, artist, Aug 7 Emily Mulenga, artist, Feb. 13 Leslea Newman, poet, June 15 Christine Palamadessi, artist, Jan. 21 Peili, artist, Sept. 12 Lily Prince, artist, Aug. 19 Julia Randall, artist, February 23 Elizabeth Ribar, poet, April 15 Nicole Rollender, poet, April 5 Gao Rong, artist, Jan. 17 Janene Scott, writer, June 25 Mamta Chitnis Sen, artist, Jan. 13 Kimberly Sexton, artist, Feb. 10 Margarita Gokun Silver, artist, March 8 Melinda Stickney-Gibson, artist, March 5 Alison Stone, writer, March 2 Susan Castillo Street, writer, May 12 Dr. Nubian Sun, artivist, April 19 Kim Rae Taylor, artist, Jan. 29 Tormented Sugar, artist, Sept. 6 Stephanie Valente, poet, Oct. 31 Veronica Weisberg, artist, March 13 Sarah Beth Woods, artist, June 2 Rachel Woroner, artist, Dec. 5 Florence Yee, artist, Aug. 22 Evie Zimmer, artist, Jan. 10

Essays:/Other Features Caterina van Hemessen and Levina Teerlinc online exhibition Gallery Tally essay by Susan Lizotte Feminist Love Letter to Wanda Ewing Art/Poetry Feature: KJ Hannah Greenberg & Julia Rolfe Broadblogs reviews LFF: The Women, 2015 Les Femmes Folles: The Women, 2015 Susan Schwalb, photo essay A Review: Vanessa German at AIR Gallery and August Wilson Center for the Arts Feminists Connect: Terese Svoboda on Lola Ridge Feminists Connect: Myriam Thyes on Sophie Taeuber-Arp We Shall Overcome: Elise Brazeal-Daganaar Feminists Connect: Nancy Gerber on Sharon Olds Feminists Connect: Valie Export + Brigitte Neufeldt

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LFF Books Presents: BARED

Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts Edited by Laura Madeline Wiseman Les Femmes Folles Books, January 1, 2017 ISBN: 978-0-692-82022-3, 374 pages, price: $67.57 Buy it on Amazon

Les Femmes Folles Books is pleased to announce its release of Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts, edited by Laura Madeline Wiseman and with an introduction by Sally Deskins. This anthology collects the work of 170 contemporary women poets and artists. Contributors in Bared include poets Ellen Bass, Wendy Barker, Nin Andrews, Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, Alison Joseph, and Alicia Ostriker, and artists Maria Raquel Cochez, Noelle Fiori, Susan Jamison, Kara Maria, florine desmonthe, Amy Kollar Anderson, Chuka Susan Chesney, and many more.

About the Anthology… This anthology collects the work of 170 contemporary women poets and artists. Exploring the gendered narratives that clothe and fashion the body, gender subversion, the traditional male gaze, feminist theories, and more, the artists and poets collected in Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts resist given narratives about the breast and bra by boldly presenting alternatives in written and visual art. The poetry and art of Bared consider commodification, training bras, mammograms, bra factories, biopsies, bra-fit, pencil tests, cancer, mastectomies, sexuality, implants, nursing, representation, and so much more, highlighting the importance of women’s bodies now and in the coming years. The cover art is by Wanda Ewing, University of Nebraska at Omaha’s tenured professor who was diagnosed with cancer in May 2013 and died a few short months later in December. She was only 43. A portion of the proceeds from Bared will be donated to the University of Nebraska Foundation Wanda Ewing Memorial Scholarship Fund. During select events, a portion of proceeds will also go to specified organizations that support women.

From the Introduction…. “In this anthology, Kara Maria’s raw yet beautiful painted depictions of women holding up their bruised breasts, work alongside Kimberly L. Becker’s poem, heartfully and passionately honoring all that comes with being bound to these patches of round skin on our chests Nicola Santalucia’s playful narrative illustrations bring something new with Andrea Witzke Slot’s warm poetic contribution of women who find kinship in the park. Janelle Cordello’s sweet and sinuous line drawing and watercolor figures of women at ease in their underclothes as though in a locker room, cause more pause when taken in with Tara Betts’ artful poem about women models and Ann Bracken’s poem of a secretive tryst. Florine Desmonthe’s dark charcoal figures in abstracted muted backgrounds after reading Susanna Childress’ self-portrait poem brings a raw authenticity.” – Sally Deskins

Laura Madeline Wiseman is the author of 25 books and chapbooks, including most recently Velocipede and the collaborative book People Like Cats. She teaches women’s and gender studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. www.lauramadelinewiseman.com @DrMadWiseman

Les Femmes Folles Books is a micro feminist press that publishes 1-2 titles a year by invitation only. Les Femmes Folles is an entirely volunteer-run organization supporting women in all forms, levels, and styles of art. Along with the annual anthologies Les Femmes Folles: The Women, it has published two collaborative books of art and writing, including Intimates & Fools that was an honor book for the 2015 Nebraska Book Award for Cover/Design/Illustration.

Forthcoming Events:

BARED Exhibit The Art of Bras & Breasts featuring artists TBA March 2-24, 2017 The Diamond Shop Gallery 320 High Street Morgantown, WV

BARED Exhibit The Art of Bras & Breasts featuring artists TBA August 2017 Ground Floor Gallery 942 4th Ave S Nashville, TN 37210

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LFFB Intimates and Fools wins Book Award

Exciting news!

Intimates and Fools, the 2014 collaborative Les Femmes Folls Book with poetry by Laura Madeline Wiseman, art by Sally Deskins and design by Adam Wager, won a Nebraska Book Honor Award for illustration and cover design! The award will be given November 14 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Wiseman will be present to accept the award. See the announcement here:

http://nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/nlcblog/2015/10/06/book-award-winners-to-be-honored-at-november-14-celebration-of-nebraska-books/

Coupling body art and poetry, Intimates and Fools intimates the complicating pairing of the female form and cultural notions of beauty while playfully seeking to bare and bear such burdens of their weight. Body art and illustrations by Sally Deskins.

The book has been reviewed by :

[Pank]

Busting and Droning Magazine

Ivory Owl Reviews

Broad Blogs

Blot Lit Reviews

Coal Hill Review

Underrated Reads

Luna Luna

Connotation Press

More features and readings can be found here.

Get your copy on amazon!

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Les Femmes Folles is a volunteer organization founded in 2011 with the mission to support and promote women in all forms, styles and levels of art from around the world with the online journal, print annuals, exhibitions and events; originally inspired by artist Wanda Ewing and her curated exhibit by the name Les Femmes Folles (Wild Women). LFF was created and is curated by Sally Deskins. LFF Books is a micro-feminist press that publishes 1-2 books per year by the creators of Les Femmes Folles including the award-winning Intimates & Fools (Laura Madeline Wiseman, 2014) and The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales (Laura Madeline Wiseman/Lauren Rinaldi, 2015). Other titles include Les Femmes Folles: The Women 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 available on blurb.com, including art, poetry and interview excerpts from women artists. A portion of the proceeds from LFF books and products benefit the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Wanda Ewing Scholarship Fund. See the latest call for work on the Submissions page!

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BARED anthology update

Submissions are now closed for our BARED anthology. Thanks to everyone who shared their work with us! We’re busy reading through all the submissions so look for responses before the year is out. Thanks again!

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CFP - BARED anthology on bras and breast - deadline September 18, 2015

Bared, a new anthology of poetry and art forthcoming from Les Femmes Folles Books seeks poetry and art by women on bras and breasts. Please see the description below. There are two ways to submit:

Poetry Submission: New, unpublished poetry is preferred. Submit 3-5 unpublished poems along with a 50-100 word bio in the body of the email or as a doc to <lesfemmesfollesbooks(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail) with “Bared Submission” in the subject line. This is the preferred submission. Please also include in your submission a list of your favorite poems and art about bras and breasts by women.

Or: The anthology will accept previously published poems, as long as the author retains the rights to the work or that it can be reprinted at no cost other than acknowledgement to the original source. Submit 3-5 previously published poems along with a 50-100 word bio in the body of the email or as a doc to <lesfemmesfollesbooks(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail) with “Bared Submission” in the subject line. For this submission, please also include the following: 1) the title of your poem; 2) the name of the book, journal, or anthology where it originally appeared; 3) the name of the press or journal who published it; 4) the year or issue it was published. Please double check to make sure that you as the author retain the rights to this poem(s) or that it can be reprinted at no cost other than acknowledgement to the original source. Please also include a list of your favorite poems and art about bras and breasts by women.

Art Submission: Submit 3-5 images as a .jpg labeled with your last name and title along with a 50-100 word bio written in the third person in the body of the email to <lesfemmesfollesbooks(at)gmail.com> (replace (at) with @ in sending e-mail) with “Bared Submission” in the subject line. Please include an art information sheet. Please also include a list of your favorite poems and art about bras and breasts by women.

All contributors will receive a copy of the anthology as well as a discount to purchase additional copies. Deadline for submissions is September 18, 2015. Exhibitions, readings, and events are already in the works.

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Forthcoming from Les Femmes Folles Books, Bared collects art and poetry on bras and breasts by women writers and women artists. Poets and artists bare their best breasts clad in bras, bare-chested, or both to boast their barbaric yawps in poems, in paint, in pictures, and art. Bared features artful couplings and dynamic duos, and is double trouble, double the fun, and sometimes in double Ds.

Bared explores the gendered narratives that clothe the body. Considering gender subversion in poetry to critique the traditional male gaze, theories on the gendered body, and feminist reflections on the love/hate relationship women have with fashion and the body, the poets and artists collected in Bared resist narratives on the female body by boldly presenting alternatives. The critical introduction draws on feminist scholarship and poetics of resistance and disobedience to consider how objects that adorn us tell stories about the gendered body and how work across artistic genres offers strategic moments of resistance. Bared presents one hundred poets and artists, including the artists Lee Child, Lauren Reinaldi, Maria Raquel Cochez, Amy Kollar Anderson, Bonnie Gloris, Janet Decker Yanez, and the poets Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, Nin Andrews, Alison Luterman, Jehanne Dubrow, Diane Lockward, Alicia Ostriker, Ellen Bass, and many, many more.

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Les Femmes Folles: TALES opens tonight at Monongalia Art Center in Morgantown, WV. This is the seventh Les Femmes Folles exhibition! We are so excited to share and celebrate the work of these 16 artists and their perspectives after the LFF Book: The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales...

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Les Femmes Folles National Poetry Month Prompts & CFP

Hooray! We made it with the 30/30 challenge of making art or writing a poem for the month of April. Even though today is the last day, keep writing and keep creating. We’re looking forward to featuring your bra and breast creations! And the stuff we’ve been receiving is fantastic! We can’t wait to share this feature with you soon. Stay tuned!

For National Poetry Month, Les Femmes Folles featured a daily writing/making art prompt on the topic of bras and breasts. Follow @LFFBooks on Twitter and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/bookslesfemmesfolles?fref=ts) for prompts. To celebrate the month, LFF will also accept submissions of new poems and art on bras and breasts by women until midnight April 30th to run as a feature in connection with the upcoming TALES exhibit in May at Monogalia Art Center, themed around the book, featuring art by TALES artist Lauren Rinaldi, with work by 15 other artists from around the U.S.

If you missed it, here are the prompts from the first third of the challenge:

Day 1: Write a poem or create art about your first bra.

Day 2: Write a poem or create art about the first breasts you touched.

Day 3: Write an ode or create art celebrating your breasts or to a lover’s breasts, or to a famous pair of breasts.

Day 4: Write an ekphrastic poem/create ekphrastic art to something in Janet Decker Yanzer’s series “Materialism”http://www.janetdeckeryanez.com/maternalism

Day 5: Select a word, saying, or phrases often used to medically or scientifically used to describe the body/breasts. Explore the sounds, associations, and images the term conjures. Write several of these variations down. Make sense or make nonsense. Make a poem/create art.

Day 6: Make art/write a persona poem about the world’s oldest bra.http://t.co/BwrZTVvJ6N

Day 7: Make art/write a poem that personifies the bra/breasts. Let them speak.

Day 8: Make art or write a farewell poem to your bras/breasts.

Day 9: Make art/write a poem about breastfeeding. You might consider addressing issues like toxins in breast milk. http://t.co/s2xcgSyjcP

Day 10: Make art/write a poem about visiting a place where bras and breasts are routinely displayed.

Day 11: Make art/write a poem that includes at least 5 slang terms, synonyms, and pet names for bras/breasts.

Day 12: Make art/write a poem in conversation with another art/poem on breasts such as Adrienne Rich’s “A Woman Dead in Her Forties.,” Lucile Clifton’s 1994“ or ”Lumpectomy Eve.“ or Wanda Colman’s “Mastectomy.”

Day 13: Make art/write a poem about a bra/breasts activist movement like@freethegirls @raceforthecure @BCAction.

Day 14: Make art/write a poem titled cleavage, décolletage, intermammary cleft, or side cleavage.

Day 15: Make art/write a shape poem on bras/breasts.

Day 16: Make art/write a found poem from advertisements for bras.

Day 17: Make art/write a poem on breasts that begins or ends with the Anne Sexton line “This is the key to it.”

Day 18: Make art/write a found poem by googling breasts/bras.

Day 19: Make art/write a poem about what breasts are not and what they could not possibly be.

Day 20: Make art/write a poem that answers the question: what are training bras training us for?

Day 21: Do your boobs hang low? Make art/write a poem that addresses what can be done with low hanging boobs.

Day 22: Make art/write a poem with the T. S. Elliot line: Uncorseted, her friendly bust/ Gives promise of pneumatic bliss…

Day 23: Make art/write a poem on Geer’s: A full bosom…is actually a millstone around a woman’s neck: https://seminariolecturasfeministas.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/germaine-greer-the-female-eunuch.pdf

Day 24: Make art/write a nursing poem in homage to poetic foremothers. Include the line “another love that dare not tell its name.”

Day 25: make art/write a poem in response to Frida Kahlo’s “My Nurse and I”http://www.wikiart.org/en/frida-kahlo/my-nurse-and-i-1937

Day 26: Make art/write a poem on bra-burning, going commando or topless.

Day 27: Make art/write a poem in response to Jo Spence’s Colonization.http://www.jospence.org

Day 28: Make art/write a parody poem on Freud’s penis-envy explanation for female sexuality. Title it: “Breast-envy.” Bonus for Two for Tuesday: Make art/write a poem in response to ‘Annie Sprinkle - Bosom Ballet’https://vimeo.com/102996505.

Day 29 Make art/write a poem that answers the question: what is a "support bra" actually supporting? Bonus prompt: make art/write a poem about the booby prize.

Day 30 Make art/write a personified poem on the "tyranny of slenderness" from the perspective of breasts/bras.

Send submission of art and poetry on the theme of bras and breasts tolesfemmesfollesbooksATgmailDOTcom. Submissions accepted until midnight 4.30.15.

Les Femmes Folles: TALES featuring Lauren Rinaldi with work by 16 artists from around the US, runs May 8-30, 2015 at Monongalia Art Center in Morgantown, WV. Details: http://femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com/events.

Les Femmes Folles is a volunteer organization founded in 2011 with the mission to support and promote women in all forms, styles and levels of art from around the world with the online journal, print annuals, exhibitions and events; originally inspired by artist Wanda Ewing and her curated exhibit by the name Les Femmes Folles (Wild Women). LFF was created and is curated by Sally Deskins. Les Femmes Folles Books is a micro-feminist press that publishes 1-2 books per year by the creators of Les Femmes Folles including Intimates & Fools (Laura Madeline Wiseman, 2014) and The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales (Laura Madeline Wiseman/Lauren Rinaldi, 2015). Other titles includeLes Femmes Folles: The Women 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 available onblurb.com, including art, poetry and interview excerpts from women artists. A portion of the proceeds from LFF books and products benefit the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Wanda Ewing Scholarship Fund.

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lesfemmesfollesbooks · 10 years ago

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Les Femmes Folles National Poetry Month Prompts & CFP

We’re almost finished with the 30/30 challenge of making art or writing a poem for the month of April. Hooray! Keep writing, keep creating, and keep submitting! We’re looking forward to featuring your bra and breast creations! And the stuff we’ve been receiving is fantastic! We can’t wait to share this feature with you soon.

For National Poetry Month, Les Femmes Folles continues to feature a daily writing/making art prompt on the topic of bras and breasts. Follow @LFFBooks on Twitter and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/bookslesfemmesfolles?fref=ts) for prompts. To celebrate the month, LFF will also accept submissions of new poems and art on bras and breasts by women until April 30th to run as a feature in connection with the upcoming TALES exhibit in May at Monogalia Art Center, themed around the book, featuring art by TALES artist Lauren Rinaldi, with work by 15 other artists from around the U.S.