The Green Heron Poetry Project

The Upper Delaware Writers Collective Announces

The 2011 Green Heron Poetry Project
http://www.upperdelawarewriterscollective.com

The Upper Delaware Writers Collective (UDWC) was founded in 1993 as a charity organization. Based in Sullivan County, NY, it also has members and activities in Wayne and Pike counties in PA and Orange County, NY.

The green heron is a native bird whose numbers are increasing in the region. It is adaptable and wily and uses tools to catch its prey.

Themes such as green herons, birds, bird watching, landscapes, places, nature, bodies of water, adaptability (for humans and animals), contemplation, conservation and sustainability are welcomed.

These themes can be interpreted loosely and are for inspiration only. We are open to well-crafted poetry in all styles.

The UDWC sponsors events designed to preserve and extend the cultural and literary legacy of the Delaware River and the Upper Delaware River Valley.

For this contest, poets must reside in New York, New Jersey or Pennsylvania.

Each poem must be 26 lines or less; prose poems of 250 words or less, one poem per page.
Entry free of $5 per poem; entries limited to four previously unpublished poems. Make
checks payable to UDWC.

Include a cover sheet listing your full contact information, poem titles, and a short bio (50
words or less). Judging will be anonymous. Do not include any contact information on poem submissions.

A panel consisting of UDWC members will judge.
Submission deadline: Friday, May 27th, 2011.
Winners will be notified by July 1st, 2011.
Send SASE for announcement of winners.
Poems may be submitted by first class mail or online. If online, manuscript will be
considered once the entry fee has been received by mail. Word documents only.

First Prize: $100
Second Prize: $50
Third Prize: $25

Winning poems will be artfully rendered on a poster with the green heron and presented at our annual awards ceremony and celebration in Narrowsburg, New York, September 17th, 2011.

For information and to send submissions via first class mail:

Green Heron Poetry Project
Georganna Millman
PO Box 120
Big Indian, NY 12410

For information and to send submissions online:
GreenHeronPoetryProject@yahoo.com

For more information: 845.252.7506

2011 Writing Contest - TIFERET Journal

TIFERET,  A Journal of Spiritual Literature, offers three awards of $500 in the categories of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

TIFFERET publishes writing from a variety of spiritual and religious traditions with a mission to help reveal spirit through the written word.

The poetry judge is Alicia Ostriker. Josip Novakovich is the non-fiction judge and Gayle Brandeis will be the fiction judge.

Contest Guidelines:
* Unpublished poems in English must be received through our online submissions manager by May 1, 2011 deadline.
* First prize in each genre: $500 and publication in TIFERET.
* Honorable Mention Prizes will receive publication in TIFERET ONLINE.
* $20 fee for each entry. Limit 6 poems (must be submitted in one document), one story or essay up to 25 pages in length.
* To enter, go to: http://tiferet.submishmash.com/Submit     Specify the genre and pay your appropriate entry fee using PayPal.

Winners will be announced June 30, 2011.

Poetry With a Sheen

On the lighter side of the poetry world, comes the news that Charlie Sheen has been reading from A Peace of My Mind, a long out of print book he self-published 20 years ago, on his webcast, "Sheen's Korner."

A sample verse from the poem "A Thoughtless Soul"

A night of drink
A night of hate
A night as dark,
As last night's date.

 

I have Tiger Blood and Adonis DNA T-shirt
suitable for reading his poems.

Suitable attire if you are auditioning

for the Charlie role on Two and a Half Men

Sheen poetry, lean and mean, hot on eBay - Washington Post

Great Falls, Paterson

Great Falls, Paterson, originally uploaded by ronk53.

The Great Falls were booming this past week after heavy rain.

In 1778, they inspired Alexander Hamilton (statue in photo) to see something that could power American industry. Paterson, New Jersey became the site for the new nation’s first planned industrial city - a “national manufactory.”

They are also the falls that appear in William Carlos Williams' poetry. 

"Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic Falls
its spent waters forming the outline of his back. He
lies on his right side, head near the thunder
of the waters filling his dreams! Eternally asleep,
his dreams walk about the city where he persists
incognito. Butterflies settle on his stone ear.
Immortal he neither moves nor rouses and is seldom
seen, though he breathes and the subtleties of his machinations
drawing their substance from the noise of the pouring river
animate a thousand automations. Who because they
neither know their sources nor the sills of their
disappointments walk outside their bodies aimlessly
for the most part,
locked and forgot in their desires-unroused.

—Say it, no ideas but in things—"

Williams' Paterson (Revised Edition)