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Kentucky State Poetry Society Adult Contest
The 2005 KSPS contest is open for submissions, guidelines here. Deadline is June 1, 2005.
The contest has 29 open categories with prizes ranging from $100 to $10. One category, the Chaffin/Kash award is limited to KSPS members. In addition to an award of prize money, all winners will be invited to read their winning entries at the KSPS awards banquet in October (at Kentucky Dam Village State Resort). First prize winners are published in the Prize Poems Issue of Pegasus.
Several interesting new categories this year that show the influence of our energetic new contest chair, Christine Delea. “Can You Hear Me Now?” asks for poetry about connections and disconnections, and “Word World” specifies a list of words to be included in entry poems.
Other old standards are gone, like the “Banjo Boy” (a category name I’ve always loved). Here is last year’s “Banjo Boy” winner, by Mary O’Dell:
For A Poet Who Uses Beautiful Words
You speak delicious – petal and blossom,
sun ray through a clear glass pane.
Language born of your tongue’s grace
swells from your mouth
like aroma of yeast bread rising.
I speak raw root of geranium,
a common, cloudy day.
I say Wash the window. You say See through,
see through, and join the spinning blue.
Perhaps if I listen long to your touch
perhaps if you grow to hear my odors
of animal paw,
of hot summer weed, the earnest aroma
of vinegar – perhaps, someday
we will both understand.
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