Showing posts with label Free Poetry Contest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Poetry Contest. Show all posts

Saturday, February 3, 2018

"We live in fog" by Marria Evbuoma - Contest Entry

We live in fog

by Marria Evbuoma

Butt cold
A cloud below (if we had your higher view)

But here in the fog- we are loose
we float along
We wait in shades appreciating all this damp
And when the sun is ready, so are we

Lost inside
But who’s really searching?
Leave your shoes on the corner
and your expired canned food
and your analog television
and that stained mattress
All inside here is of use
To be enthusiastically kicked about until removed

On the edge
Is where we live (if you had our view)
Not just to exist
But to come where this land ends
To message grey: THERE IS NO MORE

A journey  out where?
To inside
To no longer be in demand


Wednesday, January 31, 2018

The Great $100 Poetry Prize

The Great $100 Poetry Prize

No entry fee!
No entry fee!!
No entry fee!!!
Did I tell you, no entry fee!!!!
What is “The Great $100 Poetry Prize?” Well come inside the circus tent and try not to go too close to the lion cage.

Time to get serious!!!

I am a writer. I am both a poet and a writer of prose. I think I have talent. My poetry has appeared in about a 100 places. I have over a dozen books out. Yet to be a successful writer I have found that one needs to be an expert in marketing. This is an experiment in promotion. With this contest you can promote your poetry. 

I write poetry and stories for the love of it. I am presently a full time caregiver for my wife. As such I cannot work a full time conventional job. I have dedicated three hard years into my writing with nominal success. All that is missing are the people to buy my books. The only thing is how to get my message out. Together we can help each other.

I am motivated by the “Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize”. This wonderful contest for poetry chapbooks had no entry fee and a five hundred dollar first prize. As such I am running a contest for individual poems with no entry fee and a one hundred dollar first prize, payable by PayPal.

Please read the rules very, very carefully.

Send all poems to peacepoems@mail.com  On the subject of the email you must have your name, the word “CONTEST” and the title of your poem.

If you don’t get a response in a week please resend it.

The poems can be reprints as long as you have the rights to let me publish them. Outside of being posted on my blog “Turn A Page Or Two” I will not further utilize the poems.

The poems must be pasted in the body of the email. You can only enter one poem. 

You must follow my blog by email. That is you must enter your email on the slot on the "Turn A Page Or Two" page. This important as the winner will be announced in this manner. 

You must share this post on your Facebook page and on any other social media you participate in.

You must get 100 hits for your poem posted on "Turn A Page Or Two" by the contest end of June 1, 2018. There will be a special prize for the post that gets the most hits.

The deadline for submissions of poems is May1, 2018.

If will do my best to announce a winner on June 1, 2018.

If you have a book you’d like to promote you can send along ‘one’ link and I will include it with your poem. Also if you have an author page you can send along ‘one’ link to that as well.

I am the sole judge of the contest and all of my decisions are final.

If you want to get an idea of what kind of poetry I like then please Google “John Kaniecki poetry”.

Or preferably you can go to my Amazon page. There you can look at my books and read the beginnings for free. If you like what you read I would appreciate a purchase.


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