LFF TALES series: Belle Shafir (visual art); Rebecca Foust (poetry)
Belle Shafir: Knitting Bodies, Material: made of knitted wax thread, Sizes: Mostly variable, Year: Between 2010-2012.
Rebecca Foust
Corruption
of blood, the transfusion suspect,
so my newborn
needs to be tested for AIDS;
my rusty porchlight sliced
thumb, and now tetanus taints
the milk
I pump and pour down the drain;
lead dustfrom the last paint job, fine mist
aloft and breathed in
and then one line, a silver anklet
on my sonโs x-ray;
I long to feed him from my body
and he longsto be fed; Iโm taut and swollen
with milk and dread.
Rebecca Foustโs books include All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song and God, Seed. New work is in Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Narrative, Sewanee Review, and other journals. Foust is the recent recipient of fellowships from the Frost Place and the MacDowell Colony.
For National Poetry Month, Les Femmes Folles featured a daily 30/30 challenge to write poetry and prose /make art on the topic of on tales of bras and breasts. Check out the full list of prompts here or follow @LFFBooks on Twitter and Facebook. To celebrate the month of writing and creating, LFF also posted a CFP to feature new work in a special feature of Les Femmes Folles: Tales of Bras and Breasts to run in connection with TALES exhibit in May at Monongalia Art Center, themed around the book, featuring art by TALES artist Lauren Rinaldi, with work by 15 other artists from around the U.S. We received fantastic submissions from writers and artists all over the world. Weโll be sharing this feature with you during the rest of the month. Stay tuned for artful couplings and dynamic duos, and writing that is double trouble, double the fun, and sometimes in double Ds.Also, forthcoming from Les Femmes Folles Books, is a new print anthology that is seeking new work. Deadline September 18, 2015. 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. Check out the CFP here or follow @LFFBooks on Twitter and Facebook.
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. ย LFF 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 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-Omahaโs Wanda Ewing Scholarship Fund
