All These Rooms

If you want the hallowed whomper stick (TM), you must win the following challenge. And since you are naughty, asymmetrical little (all these) room-mates, I challenge you to write a somehow-symmetrical poem. The symmetry can be something like lines of equal length, number of letters, number of words, etc. Or pick some other type of […]

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Colorado Art Ranch and Art Works for the Heart of the Rockies will host 5 visual and literary artists near Salida Colorado. The residency Begins September 28, 2008 and ends October 30, 2008. Deadline for applications is August 1, 2008. For more information:
http://www.coloradoartranch.org/nextresidency.htm

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Guidelines for the 2008 Franklin-Christoph Poetry Contest
http://www.franklin-christoph.com/Writing/PoetryContest.html
We will award $2500 in total prizes, including the $1000 cash grand prize. 10 Merit
Award Winners will receive $150 writing instruments.
Submission Period
Entries accepted June 1-Nov 30 (postmark dates), 2008.

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Sorry for the late notice, I just didn’t want any competition. But for anyone with a book length of poetry sitting around you can still hustle and submit. Here’s the rub: The 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Competition APRIL 30TH
The University of Pittsburgh Press announces the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for a first full-length book of […]

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The Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund
Fellow starving poets, starve no more! This is a new contest with a huge fund behind it. I hate to add to my competition on this but then again, we’re in this together.
The site has winning poems listed and more info but here’s the important details:
These prizes have been […]

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