Prajnya Campaign Against Gender Violence
NOT SILENCE, BUT VERSE
Prajnya, an organization based in Chennai, India, partnered in 2012 with the Origami Poems Project for its 16 Days Campaign against Gender Violence. (Read below for further details.)
The Origami Poems Project was honored to provide template & informational assistance to the Prajnya campaign against Gender Violence. Below are the micro-chapbooks, Volume I & II, which contained the winning poems.
La Vida en un Librito
In the fall of 2012, St. Joseph's 8th grade teacher Anna Maria Connolly asked her students for Spanish language poems in celebration of National Foreign Language week* that is held in March. Each year she has tried to come up with new activities and a micro-chapbook of poems seemed a good fit. The OPP offered to format the poems for her class.
Animal Rescue League Fund Raiser
PARL Fundraiser at Nick-a-Nees
In June 2010, poet Mary Ann Mayer told us about a pet rescue fundraiser for the Providence Animal Rescue League (PARL) that she was attending along with her husband, Pete. We all thought it would be pet-tastic to create a special micro-chapbook to share with the fun(d)raising folks at Nick-a-Nees, bar & all-around cool place on South Street, Providence.
We sent out the call for pet-friendly poems and selected 6 gems in a micro called "Creature Comforts" with the following dedication:
