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More Poems About School; 1999:Mrs. Cole on an Onion Roll; 2000:"The Greatest Magic: Poems for Teachers" (Only available for distribution through school markets) 2002:The Bug in Teacher's Coffee and Other School Poems; 2004:Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig (with Alice Desmarteau) 2006:Put Your Eyes Up Here and Other School Poems
In 1951, Thomas won the Twayne First Book Contest for her only book of poems, Immediate Sun. [2] The book had a foreword written by Archibald MacLeish, who described her poems as having "a common quality, a characteristic idiom, and inflection the reader would recognize again as a man recognizes the inflection of a decisive voice". [3]
The Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest was created in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts under chairman Dana Gioia and The Poetry Foundation.The contest seeks to promote the art of performing poetry, by awarding cash prizes to participating schools.
Cape Cod Poetry, a monthly contest, welcomes poets of all ages on many subjects. Win publication and bragging rights. Cape Cod Poetry winners, including one poem portraying homelessness
Rattle Poetry Prize – $5000 prize for one poem given every year by Rattle; Rhysling Award – two given out each year (one for a long poem, the other for a short poem), by the Science Fiction Poetry Association for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poems; Richard Wilbur Award
The award name was dubbed by Andrew Joron in reference to a character in a science fiction story: the blind poet Rhysling, in Robert A. Heinlein's short story "The Green Hills of Earth". [1] The award is given in two categories: "Best Long Poem", for works of 50 or more lines, and "Best Short Poem", for works of 49 or fewer lines. [1]
The Society was established in 2012 by Evan Mantyk, an English teacher, and Joshua Philipp, a journalist. [2] It runs several poetry contests, including a "Friends of Falun Gong Poetry Contest", yearly since 2016. [3]
The poem may have been influenced by Millay's childhood experience of nearly drowning. Her mother, Cora Millay, saw an announcement for a poetry contest sponsored by The Lyric Year, an annual volume of poetry, and encouraged Edna to enter the poem into the contest. [2] The poem was well received and was published in the annual volume, along ...