The ninth annual 30 for 30 Poetry Celebration will again take place this year with the theme of Love on Imaginary Boulevard
Here is this year’s challenge
- Write a poem on the theme “Love on Imaginary Boulevard”
- The poems must be exactly 11 lines in length (no more, no less)
- Each line must be exactly 11 syllables in length (no more, no less)
- You may not use the words “love,” “I,” or ‘you” or any form of these words. (Hint: come up with an image)
To participate, please follow these rules:
- Send an email to mikemaggio@mikemaggio.net stating your intent to participate. Do not send any poems at this time.
- The first 30 poets who respond to this call will be selected to submit their poem.
- Once I have 30 poets, I will randomly assign each one a day when their poem is due and when it will be posted.
- Poets will submit their poem at least one day before it is to be posted. Earlier submissions are welcome but don’t rush your poem.
- All poems must be written by the submitting author. Poems should not contain any racist or sexist language.
- Poems must be submitted as a Word document or in RTF format (not in the text of the email).
- Poets should include a short 1–2-line bio to be included with the poem. A copyright statement should also be included.
- All rights automatically revert to the author.
- To promote community and discussion, readers and participants will be encouraged to post comments on the web site about the poems.
- At the end of the month, our judge will select the winning poem.
- The winning poet will receive a one-year subscription to Potomac Review.
- All poems will be archived on mikemaggio.net.
This year’s judge is David Anthony Sam, Vice President for the Northwest Region, Poetry Society of Virginia
If you have any questions, please email mikemaggio@mikemaggio.net. I look forward to your participation.
And thanks to John Wang and Potomac Review, for sponsoring 30 for 30 again this year
