Fwd: Call for Submissions
Dan Wilcox
From: Rachel Baum <rache...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Subject: Call for Submissions
To: Rachel Baum <rache...@gmail.com>
Current members of Hudson Valley Writers Guild are invited to submit up to five short poems for publication as individual keepsake poetry cards in the Guild’s 2026 Poems on Wheels (POW!) project. With this single, no-fee submission, your poem(s) may be selected for any one of four POW! cards to be distributed in 2026. NOTE: This is not a contest and selection is not blind. Project editors are Rachel Baum and Rhonda Rosenheck.
Background
Poems on Wheels (POW!) began in December 2024 with the creation and distribution of 2,000 3”x5” poem cards to homebound, disabled and isolated seniors in the NYS Capital Region counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Schenectady. That card featured the poem “Moods” by Sara Teasdale, a work in the public domain. In 2025, we featured the poems of HVWG members for all of the cards distributed quarterly in 2025.
POW! recognizes that elderly or otherwise homebound people face not only issues around food insecurity and social isolation, but also cultural, intellectual and emotional isolation. The cards are placed in food bags, trays and packages, in cooperation with each county’s Department of the Aging and similar agencies.
Saratoga Springs, New York