Peggy – “Hearthcake” , She thinks that story represent well the: “Belly of the Whale” in hero’s journey. Basically, the story tells about how author visits doctor with her son Sam. She is experiencing very bad times because she is afraid that he son is ill. She finds a bathroom as the best place to pray and she thinks that it is the place where God meets with people. She is getting peace by sitting in the bathroom.

Carol was reading “Gypsies.” The story tells how Anne runs after cute guy that she meets. In this process the relationship between them begins. But still her thoughts about being 40 years old mommy cannot leave her. But once she goes to watch a movie: “Latcho Drom” about girls. This movie makes her happier. She begins to go outside and dancing more frequently. It makes her feel better.

Noza reads the story “Baby”. It tells about mommy and son going to expedition to Mexico to watch seals. It describes small journey that they had over there. Sam is afraid to swim and his mother tries to help him. Sam in the end goes over his fear and goes forward by being like a small hero for his mother.

Jason get everything for his book. He needs only to put poems together.

Peggy is put all poems together and need to organize her book.

Carol is getting ready to begin creating a book.

Noza done with her poetry book.

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2)http://www.prairiepoetry.org/Publish_Poetry.htmlWe would be pleased to consider your poetry submissions for publication at this site!

Be sure to follow these guidelines carefully and send only your best work:

 

Recent changes to our process:

Prairie Poetry now publishes 5 new editions per year (March, May, July, September, November) on or shortly after the first of the month. In January we publish the Peer Awards edition.

Submissions are limited to two poems per reading period. Reading periods end the 20th of the month prior to publication of a new edition.

Prairie Poetry publishes and markets hardcopy fiction and poetry by invitation only.

See more below.

We publish poetry without charging the poet, but those who hope to be published at Prairie Poetry must carefully observe the following guidelines.

Quality work is important to us. Whether your poetry deals with the geography of the land or that of the soul, the awareness of the people or of those passing through, we invite you to offer your experience of the prairie or the plains here.

Prairie Poetry is dedicated to poets of the North American Great Plains. We prefer but are not limited to work that finds its subject matter in the land or the people East of the Rocky Mountains and West of the Mississippi River, from Northern Canada to Northern Mexico. We are delighted that good poetry abounds on the Internet. Prairie Poetry is limited by time and energy in what we can publish, therefore we have adopted these limitations.

There are no reading or submission fees. A

We pay no authors fees or royalties whatsoever.

We publish only individual poems online. We do not consider manuscripts, chapbooks or any traditional publications. We never publish short stories.

Prairie Poetry is published monthly, except in August and January. The January edition consists of the Peer Awards for the previous year. There is no publication in August. New issues usually appear on or just before the first of the month. The poetry submissions received on or before the 20th of each month will be read and a decision made usually prior to the 1st of the next month. Depending on what’s already been accepted, publication may be delayed as long as eight months after acceptance.

Poems previously published in chap book form are acceptable. Original work is preferred.

Please pay attention to the following requirements:

Poems that have already been or will be published elsewhere on the Internet will be rejected

Work submitted may not be submitted simultaneously to other Internet publications.

We do not read or publish poems that are already html formatted.

We do not read or publish short stories.

We have a decided bias against very long poems.

We seldom publish songs.

We do not read or publish haiku.

Email submissions addressed to multiple recipients will not be read..Send no more than TWO poems during a monthly reading period that fit the guidelines above to the following Email address:

Editor@PrairiePoetry.org

(submissions to any other Prairie Poetry address will not be read or acknowledged)

The Email subject must contain the word, submission, without which it may not be read.

You will receive a confirmation Email that your work has been received if you include the word “submission” in the subject line of your Email.

Works submitted must be part of the body of an Email message –Not an attachment to an Email message.

Poetry submitted as any kind of an attachment to an Email will not be opened or read.

Email that is in Rich Text Format (RTF) is acceptable.

Do not send more than two poems during any reading period. We will read only two poems during any reading period. If you send more than two poems none of them will be read or considered. Should your work be accepted, please know that we do not consider new, additional submissions from an accepted author until after the accepted work has been published on Prairie Poetry.

Be sure to include your name and a brief paragraph about yourself. Please know that we do not publish every author, let alone every submission that we receive. We never publish more than one poem in a given month for any author we accept.

Rejected poems that observe submission requirements will be returned electronically in an Email notification of our decision. If you submit multiple poems in separate emails and all are rejected, you may receive only one email notification of our decision.

When publishing a poem we do our best to reproduce the formatting and case usage in which your original work appears. The limitations of our time and this medium are such that the electronic result is not always identical to your original. Your poem will be displayed with a graphic side bar that we feel is appropriate.

By submitting your poem for consideration you are giving Prairie Poetry the right to publish that poem on the Internet website of Prairie Poetry for an indefinite period.

Also, please know that we accept responsibility only for the initial cyber-publication of your work. You retain the copyright to your work and we will post a copyright notice with your work, but in our world there are pirates who may choose to take advantage of us. Grace and beauty begin with trust.

We do this without charge because we enjoy it, so please be generous of spirit.

We do not publish anything in any offline, hardcopy format. Poems published during a calendar year are automatically elegible to receive the annual Friends Prize and its monetary purse . The Friends Prize is given annually (details). The award’s funding depends on contributions and the amount of the award(s) is determined by the contributions received ($700 in 1/2005, $800 in 1/2006). Recipients are first nominated in a competitive process by authors who have previously been published at Prairie Poetry. The final selection for the Friends Prize is made by the Friends — those who make a monetary contribution to the prize. contribution of $10 or more to the Friends Prize is gratefully received and the donor is thanked and his/her name remembered. Our goal is to publish 5 – 7 poems with every new edition.

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Some feeling are coming to my heart again,

It was so difficult the first time to begin,

But now the words appearing by themselves,

With no effort or thinking ahead,

I had much pleasure by writing my poems,

They were only about my experience,

It was so good to remember more than once,

The journeys of my life,

It will be good by now if I will put all these thoughts,

In my poetry book,

To remember Marlen’s class and not to forget,

The best my moments in US.

The new book of Traveling Mercies ,

Easy to understand and to perceive,

The events which in stories of it,

The author writes about the simple life,

Making it lovely to heart,

Full of meaning and interesting to read.

Probably, I will definitely finish it by reading ahead.