Undelivered Mail 

Dear Daughter,
  Your father and I wish to commend you
on the wisdom of your choices
and the flawless conduct of your life

Dear Poet!
  Where is the full-length manuscript
you promised us? Your check is waiting
The presses are ready
and the bookstores are clamoring for delivery

Darling,
  This convention is tedious
beyond belief: the hotel is swarming 
with disgustingly overexposed women
far too young to have dignity 
or any minds at all

Dear Patient:
  The results of your blood tests reveal
that your problem stems from
a diet dangerously low 
in pizza and chocolate

Dear Mom,
  You were right about everything
and I was an idiot not to listen

 Spring Spots Assignment for Poetry I and II
Select a spot near your home where you can immerse yourself in nature, or if there is no suitable place near your home, pick a place convenient enough for you to go frequently to sit and write. Over the next month, sit in your selected spot five times and observe the changes in nature. Collect images each time, and date your collections. You may write poetry each time, or you may make lists that can be used in poetry later. Submit typed image collections or poem drafts after each sitting. Submit three revised poems using the collected images or poem drafts by the time you return from spring break. The subject(s) of the poems are up to you. Submit up to three nature poems (those created in your Spring Spot or those previously written) to the contest below:
Friends of Acadia Nature Poetry Competition (no fee)  
Postmark Deadline: April 30 http://www.friendsofacadia.org/events/poetrycompetition.shtml
Submissions are invited for the 2010 Friends of Acadia Poetry Competition. Established in 1998, this prize is presented biennially to promote and recognize distinctive nature poetry. The three top-ranked poems will be published in the Friends of Acadia Journal (print and online), and awarded cash prizes by category ($350, $250, $150).
Nature-based poems of 30 lines or fewer will be accepted. Include cover sheet stating author's name and address and poem title. Do not include author's name on manuscript(s). Please format your poems using 12-point Times New Roman (default font)—no "unique" fonts. 
Authors may submit up to three poems for consideration. Entries must be original, unpublished, and not submitted elsewhere. There is no fee to enter. Entries will not be returned. The competition results will be announced in the Summer 2010 issue of Friends of Acadia Journal, to be mailed and published online in early August.
Please submit your entries to: Editor, Friends of Acadia Journal, P.O. Box 45, Bar Harbor, ME 04609, editor@friendsofacadia.org. If sending via email, please include your submissions as attachments.
Please enjoy "In The Backyard", winner of the 2008 Friends of Acadia Poetry Award:  

 
  In The Backyard

We tell our stories wide-eyed
as though we don't believe
them ourselves—how the blue jay

sat among the beans three days
straight and the Vidalia onions
bloomed on strong green stems,

their gauzy bridal caps folding
back, presenting their white bouquets.
How she had died on the last day

of spring and what that meant.
How on the evening of the funeral,
as twilight and the lightning bugs




arrived, and as our grief was just
beginning, two deer—a buck and a doe—
stepped slow and high-footed into the yard,

glowing tawny against the green
silhouette of apple trees. How the buck
moved into the next yard but the doe

lingered, how she looked up at us
gathered behind the porch railing, then
lowered her head again to the grass.

How she wasn't afraid. How the roses
bloomed so heavy the branches
lay in the dirt.
  Beverly Voigt

 All juniors, check out the Young Arts Scholarship website.  See link on bottom right of page!

If Sarah accepted your poem to the Grocery List Anthology, your 100 word Bio. is due tomorrow, April 1!  

Don't forget all the poetry contests due by March 31st:  Sarah Mook, Word Works, and Grocery List Anthology.  Also, check out the link on the right of the page for Thirteen Ways of Looking at Facebook.  Thought you might enjoy it--especially Poetry I and II.
 

If you haven't sent your Grocery List Poem to Sarah Crossland, please send to gatsbygurl@gmail.com by March 31.  If you have already been accepted, you earn 5 CFPA points.  Please email me if you are accepted.
Thanks,
C. Hailey 

Submit up to three poems to the Sarah Mook Poetry Prize.  Optional $5 donation.
See website for exact formatting instructions and mailing address.

Website:  http://www.a2pwebdesign.com/poetrywits/poetrycontest/sarahmook.htm

Enter this competition with five or six poems.  You must mail your entries no later than March 31st during spring break.  Format your work exactly as it states in teh submissions guidelines so you won't be disqualified.  Website:  http://www.wordworksdc.com/young_poets.html

While you have the opportunity, collect snow imagery for poetry.  Use all five senses to write imagery and figurative language related to snow.  Draft some poem starts and see what happens. You can do this in your Personal Journals.

Eddas 2010 Spirography can be ordered now for $10!  The cost when it arrives in June will be $12.

Eddas 2009 Qualia is still on sale!

Cost Now Reduced to $10

Purchase in the Eddas room or outside the cafeteria when sales are set up.

Do you know a band? Are you a member of a band? Then submit a request to play at the Eddas Coffee House!

Currently looking for a band for the January 20th Coffee House.