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(or your poem will be disqualified, not entered.)

If you're NOT experienced, Please
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before submitting needlessly.

Poetry contest guidelines:
Read the poetry contest entries (if any) below, to make sure
yours is unique from the others. Then scroll down to our
entry form.

1.Type your (poignant) poem, (Look up "poignant")
in proper upper and lower case letters, up to 16 lines.
Single spaced. Maximum 3 blank lines between stanzas.

2. Maximum width - 45 keystrokes per line.

WIDER LINES ARE ANNOYING TO READERS.
(So are serious Typo's). They're disqualified.


If you don't cooperate with our simple rules we reserve the right to ban your e-mails to us permanently. It takes many hours a day to run a publishing company. We cannot waste hours downloading frivolous, unusable entries.

 (These things have been overdone to the point of disgust.)
3. DON'T USE: ALL CAPS, or lower case "i"
or "&" instead of and, or  slang, vulgarity, archaic words
like "doth, o'er, n'er, nary, whence, 'tis, hast, thee" etc.
dumb spelling like nite, and thru.
or
colloquialisms, (street language, "yeah," etc.) and old familiar
clichés such as:
they say, my friend, a stitch in time, each and every,"
and everything else you've heard too often, or even a
take off on it.
("Each and every" is used too often, even by TV reporters who should know better. It is improper English.)

Don't Use
Unnecessary, colorless words to show off your vocabulary
like: extemporization, and other rare words we can't visualize.
Poetry is about imagery...visualization from use of words,
not just pretty scenes, but feelings as well.
And
Don't distort a sentence to create a rhyme.
("the brother I knew never" instead of "never knew."

Your lines are not required to rhyme. If you want learn
to use rhyme intelligently and effectively, read Poetry
Self-Taught by our editor Barbara Morris Fischer.


4. Please Click here and read some prior winners before you enter!

5. Wait for the "monthly" poetry contest results below before entering more poems. (We allow One poem entry per-poet, per-monthly contest).

Results link will appear below beginning April 30,2003.
All Poetry Contest winners are announced on this website.
Click here to view poetry by latest winners
 

If you're a novice, please study before you enter. READ our various winners and workshop articles. Read "POETRY SELF-TAUGHT,"
Get it at your library or from us below. J. Mark Press is concerned
with only sincere, dedicated poets.

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