Contest Description
What to Submit?
1 original, poem on the theme of .............GROUND EDGES
Please submit one NEW, DATED entry
Any form acceptable - please be true to form chosen
Return to those “thrilling days of yesteryear”** when you were those edges.
Before the gag of Political Correctness and the chokehold of the Thought Police
silenced the screams of honest inquiry and debate. Before the onset of “micro aggressive censorship”.
WHO were those edges, what was that edginess, where has it gone, and why do we miss it so?
Prizes
First Prize, Glory
Second Prize, Glory
Third Prize, Glory
Twelve Honorable Mentions
Preparing Your Entry
Submit one copy of your poem online. Format your poem. Please make your entry easy to read — no illustrations or fancy fonts.
English Language
Poems should be in English. Poems translated from other languages are not eligible, unless you wrote both the original poem and the translation.
A Note to Poetry Contestants
You are welcome to enter this contest, whether or not you won a prize in one of my previous contests.