FESTIVAL COMMITTEE
J. Pomford Harris, Festival Director
Pat Smith, Contests
Sarah Hull Gurley, Hospitality
Randy Stoker, Treasurer
REGISTRATION AND ENTRY FORM
Name______________________________________
Address____________________________________
City________________
State_____Zip_________
Daytime phone __________________________
Registration
_____@ $5.00/person _______
# Poems entered in #1 non-
PST members _____@ $2.00/poem _______
# Poems entered in #1
PST members _____@ $1.00/poem _______
# Poems entered in
#25 Mid-South Poetry Festival
Collection
______@ $3.00/poem _______
# Poems entered in all other contests
_____@ $1.00/poem _______
Awards Lunch
______@$20.00/person______
Total Enclosed
______
Mail to:
Patricia
W. Smith
1035 N. Barksdale
Memphis, TN 38107-3102
Phone: 901/725-5413
(No collect calls accepted)
SCHEDULE
OCTOBER 4
6:30 pm - Festival
Hospitality at the home of Sarah Hull Gurley, 9141 Forest Bend Court (directions below). PST will host
a pot-luck feast. Festival Collection will be read and winners of the Grandmother Earth Annual Contest
will be announced. This is much TOO good to miss. We’ll see you there!
OCTOBER
5
9:00 FESTIVAL REGISTRATION AND
HOSPITALITY
10:00 WORKSHOP –
Ann Marie Wranovix
12:00 LUNCHEON
1:00 AWARDS
Awards Announced--Winners Read
2:00 BREAK
2:15 CONTINUATION OF
AWARDS
Awards
Announced--Winners Read
Workshop Leader
Ann Marie Wranovix is a Professor of Literature
and Languages at Christian Brothers University and has been teaching a variety of literature and writing classes for 22 years.
She received her BA in English from Vanderbilt and her PhD from yale. She has had poems published in Old
Hickor Review and Four Quarters.
Directions to
Sarah Hull Gurley’s Home
Follow
Poplar Ave. to Forest Hill Irene Road and turn south. Cross Poplar Pike and the railroad track.
Forest Bend Court is approximately one mile from Poplar on the left, surrounded by a black wrought iron fence.
Three mailboxes are on the south side of the drive, one will have bright balloons tied to it. The
gate will be open and the house is on the right on a slight rise.
RULES
Mail
entries with proper fees, postmarked by August 13 and received by August 20.
Mail to Pat Smith, 1035
N. Barksdale, Memphis, TN 38107-3102.
1.
All poems must be original and, except for #25, unpublished.
2. Unless otherwise indicated all contests are 40 line limit, any subject,
any form. Count lines carefully as rules on length are strictly observed.
3. Only one poem per contest except #1 which has no limit as long as entry fees are paid.
If one poem is on two sheets of paper, staple the pages together. Do not enter the same poem in
more than one contest.
4.
Type all poems on 8½ X 11 inch white paper. Send two copies with name and number of the contest
on upper left corner of both copies. Only one copy should contain your name and address in upper right hand corner.
Rules of NFSPS will apply when in doubt.
5. All entries MUST include a festival registration fee of $5 and $1 per poem, except #1 & #25. Non-members of PST must pay
$2/poem in #1. #25 is $3/poem. Entries
will not be accepted unless accompanied by an official registration form. Photocopies are
acceptable. Do not send the entire contest brochure. Make checks payable to: The Poetry
Society of Tennessee.
6. Only first place winners will be published in Tennessee Voices except for #1.
Copies of the yearbook containing these winners are $5.00 to members and available to non-members for $10. It will
be published in August, 2009.
CONTESTS DEADLINE: POSTMARKED BY AUGUST 13 AND RECEIVED BY AUGUST 20.
Unless
otherwise indicated all contests are 40 line limit, any subject, any form.
AWARD $150
BEST of the FEST
Anomymous Sponsor
The first place poem of each contest will
be judged by an outsider to determine the best poem of all the entries received. Last year’s winner
was Frances Brinkley Cowden, Cordova, TN.
#1 BENEFACTORS AWARDS $80, $70, $60, $50, $40, $30, $20
(Open
ONLY to PST members and TN residents.) Donated by
Sarah Hull Gurley, Pat Crocker, Pat Smith, Mick Denington, Russell Strauss Florence Bruce, Tom McDaniel and Isabel Joshlin
Glaser. Any form, any subject.
AWARDS
$50, $30, $20
$2 The Sam Sax Memorial Awards by Tom McDaniel. Free verse, subject:
the next to the last word, 30 line limit.
#3 The Frances P. Denington
Memorial Awards by Mick Denington. Free verse, any subject, 25 line limit.
#4 The
Sarah Catherine Anderson Memorial Awards by Sarah Hull Gurley.
Free verse, subject: the rain last night, 24 line limit.
#5 The Pam Whitworth Memorial Awards by Patricia W. Smith.
A narrative poem in blank verse, 60 line limit.
AWARDS $30, $20, $10
#6 The Diane M. Clark Awards, any form, subject: feathers, 30 line max.
AWARDS $25, $15 & $10
#7
The Frieda Beasley Dorris Memorial Awards by Bess Beasley Wells.
Any subject,. form: dorsimbra. A dorsimbra has four lines of Shakespearean sonnet, four lines of free verse and four
lines of iambic pentameter blank verse. The first line repeats as the last line. No
contractions allowed.
#8 The Ann Carolyn
Cates Awards, any form, subject: hugs.
#9 The Terrel A. Cates, by Ann Carolyn Cates, a humorous poem,
any form, subject Merlot wine.
#10 The
Pat Crocker Awards, form: rhymed, iambic pentameter couplets, any subject,
16 -32 lines.
# 11 The Jo Elliotte Memorial Awards by J. Pomford Harris.
Any subject, form: Pirouette. A pirouette is 10 lines, 6 syllables per line. Line 5 is repeated
as line 6 with a “turn” at that point.
#12 The Ruth Boyd Pell Memorial
Awards by Elizabeth Pell. Any subject,
any form, 30 lines.
#13 The 1st President of PST Awards in memory of Raymond McCarty by Margaret McCarty. Any subject. Form:
Shakespearean or Petrarchan sonnet.
#14 The Chad Jones Honorary
Awards by Nellie Jones. Any subject. Form: Shakespearean sonnet.
#15 The Joan T. Strauss Memorial
Awards by Russell Strauss. Any form, subject, line or title, but one of the following MUST BE the 1st
line of the poem: “Though the snow was swirling, the truck didn’t stop”, “What was lost could never
be replaced”, “Awakening just before dawn”, or “Clasping his mother’s hand, the child”.
40 line limit.
#16 The Isabel Joshlin Glaser Awards any form, subject, Coming Feature, Real or Fantasy, 30 line limit.
#17 The Florence Rogers Tuck Awards by Leslie Blakeburn form: a pair of related haiku, any subject.
#18 The
Jeanine Mah Awards, free verse on nature.
AWARDS $20, 15, $10
#19 The
Pat and Sarah Double Judge Awards, by Pat Crocker and Sarah Gurley, each will independently judge the entries and TWO sets
of awards will be presented. Any form, subject: women in red hats.
AWARDS $15, $10 & $5
#20 The
Bobby Drobeck Memorial Awards by Russell Strauss, A narrative poem for young people. The
poem may be for any age from grade school through adolescence. Please write possible age group at the bottom
of the poem. 40 line limit.
#21 The Malu Graham Awards, Any subject, free verse.
#22 The Tanka Awards by Florence
Bruce. Any subject, form: Tanka, a Japanese form of 5 lines with syllable.count of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7.
AWARD $20
#23 The Frieda Beasley Dorris Memorial Award by Florence Bruce, An elegy (grief) or ode (praise)
any subject with or without rhyme.
#24 The Margaret Williams Smith Dyer Memorial
Award by D. Beecher Smith, II, any subject, form beech. A beech is a
5 line poem with syllable lengths of 2, 5, 5, 3, 8; 1st & 5th lines rhyme, 2nd, 3rd
and 4th lines rhyme
FESTIVAL COLLECTION
AWARDS: 1
- 3 COPIES OF THIS COLLECTION
#25 Mid-South Poetry Festival Collection ($3 entry fee).
Open ONLY to persons attending the festival. Limit - one side of one 8½ X 11 sheet.
Published poems may be entered. Do not enter a poem in this contest that has been previously published
in Mid-South Poetry Festival Collection. Showcase your best poem. Page with
name will be photocopied and must be legible and include publishing credits. All entrants will receive
a copy of the Collection.
GRANDMOTHER
EARTH ANNUAL CONTEST
DEADLINE JULY 15, 2008.
Send SASE to:
Frances Cowden
P.
O. Box 2018
Memphis, TN 38088
