The
seventh annual 30 for 30 Poetry Celebration will again take place
in April, and I am pleased to announce that it is once again being sponsored
by Potomac
Review. This year’s judge is
David Lotte, and the winner will
receive a one-year subscription to the journal.
This year’s challenge is called Re(en)vision and here are the guidelines:
- Take an old poem that you are happy with.
- Go through it and remove each 5th word.
- Think of a stanzaic scheme for the revision.
- Rewrite the poem with the new stanzaic scheme and without using the words you have deleted.
- You may not use additional words
- Present the following: the old poem and the newly revised poem.
To participate, please follow these rules:
1. Send an email to mikmaggio@mikemaggio.net
stating your intent to participate. Do
not send any poems at this time.
2. The first 30 poets who respond to this call will be selected to
submit their Re(en)visioned poem.
3. Once the poets have been chosen, I will randomly assign each one a
day on which their poem will be posted.
4. Poets will submit their poem one day before it is to be posted.
Only one poem revision plus the original version should be submitted.
5. All poems must be written by the submitting author. Poems should not contain any racist or
sexist language. Line length is up to the author. Previously published
poems are acceptable as long as you identify where it was published and as
long as you own the rights.
6. Poems should be submitted as a Word document (not in the text of
the email) or in RTF format.
7. Poets should include a short 2-3 line bio to be included with the
poem. A copyright statement should also be included.
8. All rights automatically revert to the author.
9. To promote community and discussion, readers and participants will be able to post
comments on the web site about the poems.
10. At the end of the month, our judge will select the winning poem.
11. The winning poet will receive a one-year subscription to Potomac Review.
12. All poems will be archived on the mikemaggio.net site.
If you have any questions, please email mikemaggio@mikemaggio.net. I look forward to your participation.
And thank you to John Wang, editor of Potomac Review, for sponsoring us once again this year.
