Hey Folks,

Ever scouring the web for all things art and poetry related I came across this contest that start in March. So I’m passing it along to you. To those of you that enter, good luck! Let us know how you do.

POETRY BOOK CONTEST!

Three poetry collections will be selected. All three will be published in January 2010. Three prizes of $1000 will be awarded.

Submission Deadline August 1, 2009

Judge: Dara Wier

The Mississippi Review Poetry Series is a new annual contest awarding three publication prizes for book-length poetry manuscripts. It is open to all poets working in English except current or former students or employees of Southern Miss. There will be three $1000 prizes and we will produce three full-length (48-64 page) paperback perfect-bound books. Each will bear the cover price of $12 and the three winning books will be packaged as a set for MR subscribers. Each winner will receive the cash prize plus 100 copies of his or her book as payment. Manuscripts may total no more than 56 pages of poetry. Fee is $25 per entry, payable to Mississippi Review. There is no limit on the number of entries an author may submit. Each entrant will receive a set of the three prize-winning books. No manuscripts will be returned.

Contest opened March 15, 2009.  Postmark deadline: August 1, 2009. Winners announced: September 2009. Publication scheduled: January 2010. Please put MR Poetry Series, name, address, phone, e-mail, and title on page one of entry. Send to Mississippi Review Poetry Series at 118 College Drive # 5144, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001. With questions call 601.266.5600.

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who’s your literary hero?

and I think it’s Tweme worthy. What’s a Tweme?

you’ve probably seen them before, little keywords with a hashmark at the end of a twitter.

So if you’ve got twitter, plurk, a blog, whatever answer Angela’s question, and tag it #litheros

My Answer: the long and short is Chuck Palahniuk.

See why here

see Angela’s original post here: i’m (angela), let’s be friends..

Would you pay $100 to have your poem printed in a newspaper?

Mom and Pop Poets: How to Make a Buck for Newspapers

By Roy Peter Clark

Some newspaper writers may think of themselves as frustrated poets, but there’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to make a little dough by publishing more poetry in the Daily Rag.

Most journalists I know have traditionally held community poets in disdain, imagining dewy-eyed church ladies emoting about spring; or crusty fishermen writing doggerel about catfish.

Such snobbery is not only destructive to the aims of what’s left of the newspaper, but it may be the kind of small-mindedness that misses another yeasty opportunity to raise dough.

I don’t know anyone more against the policy of paid obituaries than I was, but I was wrong. Obits today -� many produced by amateurs �- not only get some money flowing into the paper, but also give friends and family members an opportunity to shape a statement not just about the death of a loved one, but about his or her life. Call it a Life Notice.

With obits as a precedent, here’s my plan:

Devote a small corner of the paper to something called “Poet’s Corner” -� a reference to a place in Westminster Abbey where England’s most celebrated authors are entombed. This space in the paper �- somewhere near the classified ads or nature photography or other light features -� should be able to contain 20 lines of poetry. That, or something like it, will mark the upper limit of poem’s length…. Read the full Article

Poynter Online – NewsPay.