Rules Of Poetry

Random Acts of Poetry: World of Lepers

World of Lepers

Who writes about lepers?

Only those who wake up less whole

Lepers check the morning bed

For what fell off in the night

They gather hair from the pillows

And give passionate eulogies for each white strand

You will be missed my thin albino friends, you will be missed

Then, sitting on the edge of the bed

While my feet rest on the lost years crumpled on the floor

I see the first signs of Maine whiteness dying

And Maine greenness coming to life

A respectful quietness grows within me

For the changes on both sides of my bedroom window

As we grow older and younger together

— RONNIE TOMANIO, Eliot, Maine

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Guideline Rules for Poetry Competitions « Emma Lee's Blog

It is not desirable to standardise poetry competitions because it risks a curious beast known as a poetry competition winning poem developing in isolation from trends in poetry magazines and poetry criticism.

In fact most poetry competition judges start judging the same way: they read the poems, sift out a shortlist and re-read the poems. Most poetry competition judges would probably pick out the same shortlist too. What differentiates one competition from another is which poems are selected as winners.

Drawing up the rules can be problematic, especially with regard to copyright, so below are guidelines to creating rules for a poetry competition. These allow organisers to cover all bases whilst allowing flexibility. Not all points will be relevant to every competition and there is a summary checklist too.

Poem Entries

Typewritten entries eliminate the risk of a judge misinterpreting a poet’s handwriting. Some competitions specify a font and point size Although not particularly environmentally-friendly, keeping entries single-sided eliminates the risk of a judge not noticing the poem has continued on the back of the sheet Keeping any identifying marks off the poems themselves eliminates any accusations of favouritism/ nepotism from non winning entrants and hence reduces any potential negative publicity about the competition If no identifying marks are to be put on the poem, should entrants enclose a covering sheet with poem title and name and address or use an entry form? As a minimum you will need entrants to list their name (including courtesy title), postal address (particularly if offering a local prize or restricting entry to a geographical location), phone number or email address for notifying winners, titles of poems entered, entry fee sent If you insist entrants use an entry form, how do they obtain one? If you allow email entries, what document format will you use (copy and pasting a poem into an email may lose formatting, which will corrupt the poem and disadvantage the entry) If you use a web form for entry, can entrants attach a document (in what format?) to the entry form or will the web form retain the poet’s formatting? Poetry magazines generally limit the length of poems to 40 lines.

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