| Russell's 2011-2012 Challenges for PST Members |
Russell Challenges PST members to write a poem according to the themes listed below. Bring these poems to a critique session half an hour before every monthly meeting.
- January: Monty will in charge of the pre-meeting critiquing session for January. Contest #29 The Missouri State Poetry Society Award. The subject is Games. Any Form. 40 line limit.
- February: #36.
Poetry Society of Tennessee: Any humorous theme, a narrative poem,40 lines.
- March: #48.
Miriam Strauss Memorial Award: An acrostic poem. The first letter of each line
is capitalized and together the first letters spell vertically a word or phrase that
relates to the chosen subject of the poem, 20-30 lines.
The challenge critiquing sessions will begin at 1:20 so we
can be finished in time to start the regular meeting promptly at 2:00. A participant should bring at least 10
copies of his/her poem. Please
observe line limits carefully.
A drawing will be held among participants at the March
meeting and money prizes given. The number of chances you have at the drawing
will depend on how many times you participate in a challenge. It's possible to
accumulate as many as six chances. Each critiquing topic comes from a specific
contest in the NFSPS contest brochure, so every poem you write for the
challenges will be a poem you have ready to submit to NFSPS in March. The topics listed above were chosen as
our challenges because they are new; they were not in last year's
brochure.
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