Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Student Poetry Contest
Kids, this is a reminder. Check out the Poetry Society of Virginia on the Internet. The society runs a huge FREE poetry contest for students with many different age catagories. Do it today. The deadline for submissions is January 19, Edgar Allen Poe's birthday. There are cash prizes for the winning poems.
Every year I submit poems to the adult contest. Remember, if you don't submit an entry, there is no way you can win. As an added bonus, the contest forces me to try to bring poems to a final form. Or at least a semi-final form. I am reminded of Williams Butler Yeats, famous Irish poet. He changed poems even after they were published.
Every year I submit poems to the adult contest. Remember, if you don't submit an entry, there is no way you can win. As an added bonus, the contest forces me to try to bring poems to a final form. Or at least a semi-final form. I am reminded of Williams Butler Yeats, famous Irish poet. He changed poems even after they were published.
