Fifth Annual 30 for 30 National Poetry Month Celebration — Call for Poets

The fifth annual 30 for 30 Poetry Celebration will take place once again in April. This year, I am pleased to announce 30 for 30 is being sponsored by Potomac Review and will be judged by David Lotte and Courtney Ford. The winner will receive a one-year subscription to the journal.

This year’s theme is Love in the Age of Alexa.

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 one original poem on the theme of Love in the Age of Alexa.
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 should be submitted.
5. All poems must be written by the submitting author. Poems can be any style, any length and should not contain any racist or sexist language. 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 will be able to post comments on the web site about what they are reading.
10. At the end of the month, our two judges will select the best poem.
11. The winning poet will receive a one-year subscription to Potomac Review.
12. All poems will be archived on the site.

Bios:

Courtney Ford is a wife and aunt living in Dover, Delaware. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, her work has appeared in Grub Street, Past Ten, and a variety of online publications. Courtney has volunteered as an associate poetry editor for Potomac Review since 2014.

David Lott, a Montgomery College (MD) professor with over 20 years of experience teaching literature to undergraduates, is also Associate Editor at Potomac Review and Poetry Editor at The Sligo Journal. His recent bilingual collection of poems, New to Guayama (2017, reviewed by Grace Cavalieri in The Washington Independent Review of Books and available on Amazon), concerns his experience of becoming acquainted with life in small-town Puerto Rico.

If you have any questions, please email mikemaggio@mikemaggio.net. I look forward to your participation.