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2005 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize
On Thursday, I received a postcard announcement that the deadline for entries has been extended to February 11, so there’s still time to get your poems in. I’ve lost my guidelines so I can’t remember the entry fee right now — it’s cheap and you get a subscription to The entry fee is $5 for one poem. Poems no longer than 30 lines. No identifying info on poem — send a cover sheet. Sponsor for the contest is the Heartland Review. Prizes are $175, $100, $75. The judge is Davis McCombs, winner of the 1999 Yale Younger for his collection Ultime Thule. For more info, you can e-mail Mick Kennedy or call 270-769-2371, extension 4202.
Mail entries to:
2005 Joy Bale Boone Prize
c/o Mick Kennedy
Elizabethtown Community & Technical College
600 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
Here is last year’s winner by Mary E. O’Dell, aka Ernie:
Considering Blindness
What matters in that
last tick of light
will be only that - the light.
Not inked numbers on a ledger
nor a silver spoon
nor seven pounds of volumes
on a subject indexed to its dearest jot
not even passion with its dense aromas
its clung flesh.
Final spark from the final star
will fall into a face upturned
the wide eyes pleading.
A lightning bolt will do
or a firefly,
an ember that could catch the house
and keep it burning.
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