Does anyone have an idea where to publish feminist poetry? I'm having a hell of a time getting my work out there because of our patriarchal society. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Here's a poem I wrote called Cleopatra. It's about women being seduced by the cult of ambition. The MALE cult of ambition I should say. Not that females can't be ambitious. And it's about the compassion that only females, as mothers (not that we should be expected to carry children) are capable of.

My cunny untappED,
A placid pasture
Of sisterhood.
The nourishing flow,
Is knowledge
My valley is
Pristine,
Clean of what you sow
He-devil.
The earth, our mother
And
My hollow is home.
Cleopatra I call to you
Sister of the Nile,
Set aside thy asp,
Phallic assassin.
I offer you sanctuary.
In my valley
I offer a home
I offer what no RoMAN
Has ever known.
Cleopatra my sister,
Cleopatra come home.
Cleopatra
My
Sister.

u should try to post it in the LJ communities feminist or feminist_rage, but I don't think it would work out elsewhere ^__^

here: http://www.feministing.com/

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then she dances skirt swaying in the half-light she dances white blossom in the black sky
'I need new clothes', she thinks, 'new skin, a mind I can bear to live in'.

Aren't you a hardcore chauvinist, Cleetus?

PS.Poem was lovely.

I guess everyone is a critic. I'd say start by writing poetry that isn't cliched and terrible, but that's just me. Either way, Poet's Market is the book to get, you can pick it up for around 20 or 30 quid in Barnes & Noble, less online, and as it is a reference guide, if you bring a notebook, you could just copy down names and addresses in the Starbucks connected to B&N.

write it on the walls of the girls toilets at a local pub.

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Would you like a cigarette? They're quite exellent.

Going from my own experience (plus the fact that your poem is quite decent!) you'll definitely be published if you send your stuff to magazines/zines so long as they aren't magazines that offer prize money to people (getting published apparently being reward enough). I imagine that where-ever you live, there's bound to be many non-paying magazines/zines like those that you could try.
For obvious reasons it's much more difficult with the magazines that pay. There's certainly no harm in trying these too (your poetry might go down a lot better than mine!), but there are always so many OTHER people trying to get published thataway ...


I like your poem ~ it's quite sensuous, but can I make one iddy~biddy suggestion? If I were you I'd change "RoMAN" to "Roman". It's completely subjective, but I think something like that works better in a poem (generally) if it isn't spelt out completely for a reader, but rather, is left a little ambiguous. It doesn't change your meaning; it just might make a person pause and reread the line, and wonder if THAT'S what you meant.

(I hope this doesn't sound patronizing, but personally I find it VERY hard to get suggestions and feedback on my own poetry.)

No better place!

Except maybe Media Share. They'll adore you in there.

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