A lipogram is a type of Oulipian constraint where each stanza represents each letter in a word that is missing; the stanza must use every other letter of the alphabet except the letter that’s missing. Another name for this is the beautiful outlaw.
![[Robert]: A Lipogram Apology by Monica Prince](https://minervarising.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/MonicaPrince_poem-1080x675.jpg)
Poetry
The Keeping Room is an online magazine for all women writers, poets, and artists.
We are looking to publish your short stories, essays, free writing, poetry, and photo essays that touch on topics related to Women’s Wisdom, Lessons Learned, Self-care, Bodies, Relationships, and Community.
Writers selected for publication will be paid $25
After Dark, by Ellie Altman
Relishing permission to sleep,
I wrestle the day to surrender
The Plan by Irene Watson
Capture shade of sundials in curled hands.
Shutter hours passing with a shield of metal marker.
Devour by Eve Croskery
I run the shower, water hot to wash off the day.
Almost instantly comes the sound
of small palms slapping on cold tiles.
Watercolor Study, Incarnate by Alison Lubar
1. P.M.
when the suburban navy blue becomes
…
Poems by Sandra Kolankiewicz
“Masterpiece” and “Naked in the Moon”
The Women I Remember by Sarah Cooke
The Women I Remember I awoke to shoutingand shadows cast by a small fireat the far end of the room.They say memory is...
Eye for an Eye by Elaine Sorrentino
After I silently counted
the last “six Mississippi”
WHITE BOYS THINK THEY OWN ALL THE CREEKS
by Leah Jones
But not the mud in the bend of the road creek
It’s the field feedin’ creek
Infinity Pond
by Carol Sadtler
lap upon lap, around and back
in sparkling aqua circles
Wizening by Jennifer Weiss
When my gnarled toes graze a desolate bed
and I stow away your time-frayed pillowcase,
may I remember: