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nobrashfestivity · 3 months

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Everyone Hates Poetry 2024

Rules

Write a poem before Feb.5th and submit it to me with the submit feature or in an ask.

Poems should be less than 500 words

You can use your real name or your blog name but they can't be completely anonymous.

Poems will be published at 9pm on Wednesdays and then a link to each poem will be added to the bottom of this pinned post so people can read them all.

I can't stop anyone from reblogging their own poems and generally sharing art is a wonderful thing, but don't turn it into some kind of social media campaign. because people with a small number of followers would be at a disadvantage. This is supposed to be fun. Please do reblog this post and tag people if you think you know someone on tumblr that might be interested. Since the post will contain links to the submissions, your poem will not be lost in the shuffle.

If I receive less than 10 entries I'll cancel the contest and consider it a failed experiment.

Public voting will begin after the 5th.and account for 50% of the vote

A panel of judges will also vote but will not submit poems themselves, and their votes will make up the other 50% of the final tally.

.There will be small prizes for the winner and runner up.

This is my art blog and will remain so, as it always has been. I'm doing this because poets here don't get much chance to get their stuff read and I have a fair number of followers. It's just a little thing to do if you want. I'm not turning this into a poetry blog or a contest blog or anything else.

Poems don't need to be finished. Due to the one month time frame I would suspect these would be first drafts, but please write something new. I want to encourage people to do something now, however imperfect, rather than showing work that's already done.

Updates will follow. Thank you!

Rule clarifications

-Please dont send poems anonymously if at all possible. I am happy to include a name that doesn't identify your blog directly but it's impossible to refer to or contact people who submit poems anonymously. I can't have anonymous poems considered without at least a name for you and if you were to win a prize, you'd need a name and address to claim it. I don't so much care about the latter part, that's for you, this becomes very disorganized and hard to regulate with anonymous messages floating in.

-Please put the title of your poem above it. If it is below it, I have no way of distinguishing with certainty if it's a title or a last line.

One poem per person please.

if you do not wish to see the poetry contest entries just filter the tag "everyone hates poetry 2024"

Due to the very high volume of submissions I am blogging them more gradually as to give more attention to each one. The same tag, "everyone hates poetry 2024", that you can filter if you do not want to see these can be used to find the submissions. If you follow this tag you'll get them all.

Please note that I am now publishing these as asks, previously I had to retype to keep the formatting and there are simply too many entries

Submissions are now closed, I will be publishing submissions all week and then when all have been posted we will start the voting (stay tuned as to how and when)

#nobrashfestivity #everyone hates poetry #poetry #poetry contest #everyone hates poetry 2024

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swantonlibraryteens · 6 days

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#swanton public library #poetry club #poetry #poetry contest #national poetry month

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sleepysigh · 1 month

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Afternoon Sunshower

Above me

the rich sky sheds her furs

upon the waiting earth.

Into its vaults, they are secreted

as Easter vestments.

The modest sunset

laced with gauzy clouds

reveals the fullness of its pink;

the yellow dotted line flushes

red as salmon flesh in fresh water.

Even the bare pavement blushes

shy as an old lover,

by a shift of the light, made new.

#poem #poet #creative writing #writing #poetry #poets of tumblr #poems and poetry #poetry contest #tumblr poems #original poem #can you tell I fucking love women

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sfsucw · 4 months

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2024 Grayson Books Chapbook Contest

'Live more fully, feel more deeply, think more clearly... read poetry!'

Prize: $500, publication of chapbook and 50 copies Deadline: January 31, 2024 Reading fee: $20 Submit: 16-36 pages of poetry. Do not place identifying information on your chapbook manuscript. Put it in the submission form instead.

It requires that the manuscript is free of identifying information so it can be judged anonymously.

For more info and guidelines: https://graysonbooks.com/pages/poetry-contests

#poetry #submissions #poetry contests #poetry submissions #poetry contest #poetry writing #love poetry #poems and poetry #poems #chapbook contest

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zinjanthropusboisei · 2 years

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"In her urgent poem “Trilliums”, the late Mary Oliver wanders through the natural world “listened to the earth-talk, the root-wrangle, the arguments of energy, the dreams lying just under the surface” as she observes the trilliums in full bloom before eventually becoming the very flower of the poem’s name. In our pursuit of gentleness, nostalgia, and a reimagining of ‘home’, Frontier Poetry is launching a new contest called “Nature and Place”.

We’re looking for poems rich and robust in language, technique, and form that pay homage to the natural world and all of the small marvels that occur in nature. We’re also interested in poems that observe geography and the landscape of home. Frontier Poetry warmly encourages poets of all backgrounds, identities and ethnicities to submit. You're welcome here."

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Mentally I am bonking myself on the head with a cardboard tube as a reminder that I haven't written poetry regularly in years and don't have time to put together a submission in three days because I have a whole dissertation on nature place and landscape to finish writing 😑

...it is tempting though.

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@starfoozle - of interest for the @natureheldmeclosezine crowd?

#poetry #poems #poetry contest #nature #nature writing

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writelykeekee · 1 year

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The poetry contest I entered in January posted results this morning, and I just got a look-see!

Unfortunately, my collection was declined.

While I can't deny that I could have used a win for my writer psyche, it helps to remember that each rejected work stokes the embers of my ability and encourages me to continue writing and wanting to get my work out into the world.

And now, I'm off to do just that!

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hhabaddon · 1 year

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I’m entering a poetry contest!! The last day to submit is the 15th, and I can only submit two things.

I’m not sure what I’m going to submit yet, but I have a cento from the summer that I really like.

I might "translate" something here on tumblr to a more poetry-like style and submit that!

#poetry #poet #creative writer #poetry contest #ahhhh I’m so excited I hope I win #writer #abaddons others

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grammymumzy · 1 year

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︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶Does your heart share this moon tonight︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶

“For in your light I dream, as evening takes my hand”

Written for the Long Distance Love - Poetry Contest

https://www.poetrysoup.com/

#dark moon #moon #poetry #poetry contest #moonlight

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xxstarl1ghtxx · 2 years

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apparently theres a second neopets pride poetry contest. thank goodness, thought i missed the only one XD but the pride poetry contest is becoming really difficult for me bc there’s only 1/4th of lgbt that you can really talk about without doing a very careful tightrope walk between ‘yay pride’ and ��i am violating neopets rules, oh no’

find it funny how a poem concept i'm thinking of submitting is about being aro but i STILL feel the need to dance very carefully around the 'ro' part, yknow? hard to NOT be something already not allowed on neopets without that point of contrast. might not submit it bc im nervous. it doesnt even feature romance its basically just ‘hey is this romantic’ ‘no lol’ ‘ok sweet thanks for the gift love you (platonic)’ but im still nervous

#neopets #neotag #poetry contest

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nobrashfestivity · 3 months

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Untitled by @isaspsp

We were friends, It was always fist to fist.

I never held you back, never held your wrist

Because you never were, and never would be, mine to insist

But my love for you? That would still exist.

I would always try to assist

In whatever you'd ever come to need to not desist.

I'll be a bit of an egoist

And I'll always have you in my midst

So we can always coexist.

Finally, I'll keep myself in the mist

From where you'll never even get the gist

That I might have loved you at every turn and twist.

Being here brings me no pain

Befriending you was all I could ever hope to obtain.

#everyone hates poetry 2024 #poetry #poetry contest #if you do not wish to see the poetry contest entries just filter the tag “everyone hates poetry 2024”

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tigerjpg · 4 days

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nothing makes me go "ooooh we are NOT the same" quite like reading some post about how people talk with their parents about their interests. what do you mean you told your father about stevebucky. what do you mean he asked further questions

#i won a poetry contest years ago and not a single person in my family asked what it was about. you're an alien to me #not even saying this in a self pitying way i just can't conceive of a dynamic like that

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writerwerxuniversity · 5 days

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This poetry contest is international, so don't let your location stop you. Your $10 entry could win you a share of nearly $1,000 in cash and prizes. WinItWrite.com

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poets of tumblr #poets on tumblr #tumblr poetry #writing contest #poetry contest

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sfsucw · 4 months

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Levis Reading Prize

The Levis Reading Prize honors the memory of poet Larry Levis, who was a VCU faculty member at the time of his death in 1996.

The prize is awarded annually for the best first or second book of poetry published in the previous calendar year. It is presented by the MFA in Creative Writing Program in the VCU Department of English and VCU Libraries with additional support from the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences, and the family of Larry Levis.

Judges come from faculty of the VCU Department of English and MFA in Creative Writing Program.

Traditionally, the winner receives an honorarium and are invited, expenses paid, to Richmond to present a public reading in the following fall.

For more info and guidelines: https://english.vcu.edu/about/national-literary-awards/levis-reading-prize/

#poetry #submissions #poetry contests #poetry submissions #poetry competition #poetry contest #poetry writing

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thirdwednesdayorg · 10 days

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My Grandmother in the Bath / Fran Schumer

Fran Schumer’s poem is one of three winning poems from 3rd Wednesday’s annual poetry contest. Contest judge, Ronnie Hess, said, “My Grandmother in the Bath does what only good poems can — draw portraits of people, their hardscrabble lives, their place in our own family history. Poems to break your heart. Of course we make our own mistakes, realizing our errors too late. The descriptions here are…

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#Fran Schumer #Literary Journal #Poem #Poetry #Poetry Contest #Third Wednesday Magazine

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shadowboxerinc · 1 month

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Wknd Update: Writing Contests, Grants...from Poets & Writers

3.9.24 Evening! It’s been a while since we had any writing contests, grants, and conferences, etc. I have searched through Poets & Writers, and they have a very good list of contests, like poetry, short stories, and novels. Take a look at the available contests below. Credit Source: Poets & Writers American Literary Translators Association Italian Prose in Translation Award Cash…

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#author #Literature #March 2024 #poetry contest #Poets & Writers #slider #Spring 2024 #Weekend Update #writing contest

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zytes · 11 months

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look alive, sunshine

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