Heyo everybody.

this is my first post, although I've been part of the site for awhile now, and love reading all the great articles and such that people post. I'm not much of a person for writing articles, and I guess I was kind of intimidated by the quality and clarity of ideas that were posted, but then I realized I didn't have to write an article. So here is some of my recent poetry, mostly expressing a sort of hopelessness at ever being able to change things. Not particulary cheery, but it's relevant, and I figured it was about time I shared something with the community that had given so much to me.

From the Ishmaelhouston yahoo group:

Sorry, I know this is off topic, but I know there are several writers on this list, so I'm posting anyway.

I'm on the board of a small, local non-profit publishing company, and we are looking for poetry submissions for our quarterly magazine.  We're not a fly-by-night operation, we've been around for two years now.  And we're a "real" magazine, not online and not printed at Kinko's -- in fact, one of the poets who got published in our second issue just scored a book deal, and we were his first print publishing credit.

We're not afraid of unconventional work or dirty words.  We're just looking for quality.

If you're interested, please check out the guidelines here:
http://www.thepanhandler.org/submit.html

The webpage doesn't say so, but simultaneous submissions are also okay.

Again, I apologize for being off topic.  We did have a little debate a while ago about advertising businesses here, but I don't think this is an advertisement, exactly.  If I'm out of line, just delete this post.

Thanks!
Sarah