The Poetry of Place Celebration
(printable brochure)
Please join the Nebraska Writing Project in a poetry event that reflects life in Nebraska. The purpose of this program is to encourage Nebraska students to write poetry about place and to make that poetry more visible. Nine to twelve Nebraska student poets will be selected to have their writing published on the Nebraska Writing Project website and participate in public readings at various venues in the state, including a reading on May 6, 2011 in the Warner Chambers at the State Capitol Building alongside Nebraska Poets Twyla Hansen, and Matt Mason. Poets will be selected in three grade categories: 1-5, 6-8, and 9-12. The poems will be selected based on quality and their representation of Nebraska place in rural, urban, and suburban settings.
THE PROCESS
All Nebraska students grade one through twelve students in NSAA classified A, B, C and D schools are eligible to participate. Each student may submit one poem reflective of that student's place. Within each school, participating teachers may select the poetry of (up to) four students per grade category (1-5, 6-8, 9-12), per school.
Selected poems will be collected and sent (by one designated teacher, via email along with a cover letter), to the Nebraska Writing Project at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where they will be read by Nebraska poets Twyla Hansen and Matt Mason. The poems will be selected based on quality and their representation of Nebraska place in rural, urban, and suburban settings.
Nine to twelve Nebraska student poets statewide will be selected to have their writing published on the Nebraska Writing Project website and to participate in public readings at various venues in the state, including a reading on May 6 at the State Capitol alongside Twyla Hansen, and Matt Mason.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (Submissions not following guidelines will not be considered):
- Students will submit to their teacher no later than March 25:
- poems reflective of that student's place (poems must be titled. Student names must be left OFF of poems)
- completed and signed parental permission form
- $5 submission fee
- Teachers will coordinate within each school, to choose up to 4 poems per each of three levels: grades 1-5; grades 6-8; grades 9-12. This is a total of no more than 12 poems submitted per school if the school is K-12; no more than 4 poems per school if the school covers only one level.
- One contact person per school will E-Mail
- All poems (up to 12 per K-12 school, 4 per single level school)
- All cover letters to: 2011PoetryOfPlace@gmail.com
- (note: please submit poems and cover letters as attached word documents (do not embed in the email)
- All poems (up to 12 per K-12 school, 4 per single level school)
- One contact person per school will mail
- all (up to 12) $5 entry fees
- all signed Parent Release forms to:
Poetry of Place Celebration
Nebraska Writing Project
202 Andrews Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333
- Deadline for receipt of materials is March 28, 2011. Late entries will not be considered.
- If more than 12 entries per school are received by NeWP, none will be read.
- Contact teachers will be notified by email upon receipt of completed submissions by NeWP.
- Representative poets will be notified by mail by 22 April, 2011.
- Teachers of poets who were not selected will be notified by email.
