Featuring: Dr. Terry Wright, Professor, University of Central Arkansas
Saturday,
October 15, 2011
Cox Building
across Rock Street from Little Rock Central Library
PRA President: Cathy Moran
Poet Laureate: Peggy Vining
Poetry Day Sponsor: River Market Branch
Poetry Day Chair: John Murphree
POETRY DAY PROGRAM LOCATION
Cox Building, River Market District on President Clinton Ave.
across Rock Street from Little Rock Central Library
Saturday, October 15, 2011
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30
Poetry Speaker
10:30 Break
10:45 Poetry and critique
11:30 Lunch on your own
1:00 Business meeting
Awards Presentation
Patrons
$2,000 & up: Sybil Nash Abrams Trust.
$200 & up: Ben H. O'Neal III.
$100 & up: Paula Marinoni, Roundtable Poets of Hot Springs,
Diane Stefan, Pat Durmon, PRA,
John W. Crawford,
Cathy Moran,
Verna Lee Hinegardner, Marilyn Norton.
$40 & up: Peggy Vining, Baxter County Poets, Dennis Patton, Southern Arkansas
Poets of the Pines, Barbara Longstreth Mulkey, Mary and Kitty Sangster, Kate
Lacy, Faye BoyetteWise, Betty Heidelberger, Saline County Poets, Annetta
Beauchamp, Delta Poets, Mildred McKinney, Kitty Yeager, Poets Northwest,
Helene Stallcup, Don Crowson, Laura Lochridge.
Poets’ Roundtable Membership: Regular membership - $20; Seniors (65) and students - $15. Mail to: Cathy Moran, Membership Chair, 401 Auburn Drive, Little Rock AR 72205.
CONTEST RULES
1. Mail all entries and fees in one envelope by August 15, 2011 to Pat Laster, 7433 Samples Rd. Benton AR 72019
2. Non-members may enter all contests for which they are eligible for $15. Members may enter for $10. Make check or money order payable to "PRA."
3. Contest 15 only: Contestants may enter up to 5 poems, but $1 fee for each poem. This $1 to $5 fee is over and above the regular entry fee.
4. Submit one typed original and one copy for each contest entered with no illustrations or embellishments on entries. Place number and name of award in upper left corner of both copies. On duplicate only, place name and address in upper right corner (address label accepted).
5. All poems must be original, unpublished work of the poet and not under consideration for publication. Publication is defined as having an ISBN number.
6. Submit only one poem in each category (with exception of contest 15 – see Rule 3). Last year's first place winner may not enter the same contest this year if the contest is identical. No poem may be entered in more than one category.
7. No entries will be returned. All manuscripts will be destroyed.
8. Contest chairs are not necessarily judges.
9. Three honorable mentions will be awarded without prizes unless otherwise specified.
10. Entries not following rules will be disqualified.
CONTESTS
Open to Arkansas Residents Only
1. Sybil Nash Abrams Award:
$1,000/$400/$250. Must be historically accurate. Enclose bibliography (not included in line count). First place winner ineligible to enter contest four years thereafter. Subject:
Any aspect of the Civil War in Arkansas. Form: Any. Line limit: 60 – 100. Chair:
Jim Barton.
2. Opal Jane & Harry O'Neal Memorial Award:
$50/$35/$25, HM $20/$10/$10. Subject: The Way You Wear Your Hair. Form:
free verse. Line limit:
24. Chair: Ben H. O'Neal III.
3. Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni Award:
$50/$30$20. Subject:
Live Up to Your Dream. Form: Any. Line limit:
32. Chair: Paula Marinoni.
4. Ann Talley Kinnaird:
$25/$15/$10, HM $5/$5/$5. Subject: Any. Form: Free verse. Line limit:
30. Chair: Hot Springs Roundtable Poets.
5. Mary Lou Gipson Award:
$25/$15/$10, HM $5/$5/$5.
Subject: An Arkansas attraction. Form: Free verse. Line limit:
24. Chair: Hot Springs Roundtable Poets.
6. Arkansas Poet Laureate Award:
$25/$15/$10. Subject: Fathers. Form: Shakespearean sonnet. Strict sonnet form.
Line limit: 14. Chair: Peggy Vining.
7. Hot Springs Roundtable Poets:
$25/$15/$10, HM $5/$5/$5. Subject: Any. Form: Rhymed. Line limit: 24. Chair: Roundtable Poets of Hot Springs.
Open to PRA Members Only
8. Opal Jane & Harry O'Neal Humor Award:
$50/$30/$20.
Subject: Deep Sea Fishing. Form: Light verse. Line limit: 24. Chair: Ben H. O'Neal III.
9. PRA Conservation Award:
$50/$30/$20. Subject: Conservation. Form: Any. Line limit: 32. Chair: PRA.
10. Baxter County Poets Association:
$40/$30/$15.
Subject: Nature. Form: Any. Line limit: 32. Chair: Baxter County Poets.
11. Lucy Babcock Memorial:
$35/$20/$15, HM $10/$10/$10. Subject: Endurance. Form: Rhymed. Line limit: 24. Chair: John Crawford.
12. Cowboy’s Award:
$25/$15/$10, HM $5/$5/$5.
Subject: The Old West. Form: Rhymed. Line limit: 30. Chair: Dennis Patton.
13. South Arkansas Poets of the Pines Award:
$25/$15/$10. Subject: Ekphrastic Poem. A poem inspired by a work of art (painting, photo, sculpture, mural, etc.) Example: “Ode to a Grecian Urn.” Form: Any.
Line limit: 3-36. Must include a copy of picture or work of art which inspired your poem.
14. Million Dollar Award:
$25/$15/$10.
Subject: If I Won a Million. Form: Any. Line limit: 24. Chair: Barbara Longstreth Mulkey.
Open to All Poets
15. Sharp Award:
$80/$50/$30, HM $5/$5/$5. Subject: Any. Form: Free verse. Line limit: 35. Chair: Cathy Moran (See Contest Rule #3).
16. Minute Award:
$50/$30/$20. Subject: Any. Form: Minute (12 lines, 60 syllables, 8444,8444,8444, in strict iambic meter; rhyme scheme, aa,bb,cc,dd,ee,ff; capitalized and punctuated like prose, capturing a slice of life). Chair: Verna Lee Hinegardner.
17. Norton Family Memorial:
$50/$25/$10, HM $5/$5/$5. Subject: Nature (plant, animal, season, land form, etc.) Form: Rhymed. Line limit: 36. Chair: Marilyn Camden Norton.
18. Ozark Poets:
$35/$30/$25, HM $15/$10/$5. Subject: Walmart. Form: Any. Line limit: 32. Chair: Diane Stefan/Pat Durmon.
19. Ft. Smith Writers & Poets:
$30/$20/$10. Subject: Nature. Form: Any. Line limit: 45. Chair: Mary & Kitty Sangster.
20. Turning Points:
$30/$20/$15, HM $10/Gift cards.
Subject: Memories. Form: Modern Rondeau (“In Flanders Field”). Line limit: 15. Chair: Kate Lacy.
21. Walter Wise Memorial Award:
$25/$15/$10. Subject: Humorous. Form: Rhyme or free verse. Line limit: 30. Chair: Faye Boyette Wise.
22. Florence M. Gibbs Memorial :
$25/$15/$10. Subject: Woman or women in the Bible. Form: Any. Line limit: 32. Chair: Betty Heidelberger.
23. Saline County Branch Award:
$25/$15/
$10, HM $5/$5/$5. Subject: Humorous. Form: Any. Line limit: 16. Chair: Saline County.
24. Jere Howell Memorial Award:
$25/10/ $5. Subject: Poem about the Arts. Form: Free verse. Line limit: 36. Chair: Delta Poets.
25. Andee Coco Award:
$25/$15/$10. Subject: Let the good times roll. Form: Rhymed Line limit: 36. Chair: Annetta T. Beauchamp.
26. D.L. “Dee” Bailey:
$25/$10/$5. Subject: News on the Web. Form: Any. Line limit: 36. Chair: Delta Poets.
27. Mildred W. McKinney Award:
$25/$15/$10. Subject: Friendship. Form: Any. Line limit: 32. Chair: Mildred W. McKinney.
28. Sonakit Award:
$25/$15/$10. Subject: Any. Form: Sonakit (A Shakespearean sonnet with 2 lines of free verse between stanzas.) Line limit: 20. Chair: Kitty Yeager.
29. Poets Northwest:
$25/$15/$10. Subject: Any. Form: Sonnet (Elizabethan, Petrarchan or Spenserian). Chair: Poets Northwest.
30. Christian or Inspirational Verse:
$25/$15/$10. Subject: Count it Joy. Form: Any. Line limit: 34. Chair: Helene Stallcup.
31. Crowson Award:
$25/$15/$10. Subject: Any. Form: Any rhymed form. Line limit: 24. Chair: Don Crowson.
32. L.C. & Pat Bridges Award:
$25/$15/$10. Subject: Christian Poetry. Form: Free verse. Line limit: 24. Chair: Laura Loughridge.
~~~~~~Good Luck!!~~~~~
Poets'
Roundtable of Arkansas
