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The North Carolina Poetry Society announces the
opening of its annual poetry contests for adults and students.
Cash awards and certificates are offered for
winning poems, which will be published in Pinesong, the NCPS
annual collection of award-winning poetry. Winners will be invited
to read their winning poems on May 16, 2009 at the Awards Day
ceremony at Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern
Pines.
Categories for adults include serious poetry,
poems written by adults for children, sonnets or other traditional
forms, light verse, haiku, poems with a theme of courage, American
heritage, brotherhood/sisterhood, nature or love.
Student contests include general categories for
grades 3-5, 6-8, and 9-undergraduate in addition to a category
for poems about the environment for grades 3-8 and haiku for
grades 9-undergrad. Deadline for entries is Jan. 20, 2009. Complete
details about the contests are listed on the Poetry Society
Web site, www.NCPoetrySociety.org.
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