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New York Public Library National Poetry Contest on Twitter
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http://www.nypl.org/media-center/national-poetry-contest
Take part in The New York Public Library’s National Poetry Contest on Twitter to celebrate National Poetry Month. Register online [LINK: http://pages.email.nypl.org/poetrycontestregistration/], follow @NYPL, and tweet your poems @NYPL between March 1 and 10.
How It Works
To enter, register and agree to the contest rules, follow @NYPL on Twitter, and submit three poetic Tweets in English as public posts on your Twitter stream between March 1 and 10, 2013. Three poetic Tweets constitute one entry and each poem must contain the @NYPL Twitter handle. Two of the poems can cover any topic you choose, but at least one of the three poems needs to be about libraries, books, reading, or New York City. All entries must be original, unpublished, and must not have won any award. Entrants may submit one entry per day. Our esteemed panel of judges will select about ten winners by March 18, based on originality, creativity, and artistic quality.
The Contest is open to U.S. residents 13 years and older. Contest may only be entered in or from the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia and entries originating from any other jurisdiction are not eligible for entry. No purchase necessary. See the Official Rules of Entry for details.
What You Can Win
Winning poems will be published on NYPL's social media channels during National Poetry Month in April 2013 — reaching more than 1 million fans and followers!
Winners will receive a free set of books by leading American poets including:
Red Doc> by Anne Carson
Quick Question: New Poems by John Ashbery
Place: New Poems by Jorie Graham
The Narrow Road to the Interior by Kimiko Hahn
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton
Winners may also be featured in a special edition NYPL Poetry eBook
Take part in The New York Public Library’s National Poetry Contest on Twitter to celebrate National Poetry Month. Register online [LINK: http://pages.email.nypl.org/poetrycontestregistration/], follow @NYPL, and tweet your poems @NYPL between March 1 and 10.
How It Works
To enter, register and agree to the contest rules, follow @NYPL on Twitter, and submit three poetic Tweets in English as public posts on your Twitter stream between March 1 and 10, 2013. Three poetic Tweets constitute one entry and each poem must contain the @NYPL Twitter handle. Two of the poems can cover any topic you choose, but at least one of the three poems needs to be about libraries, books, reading, or New York City. All entries must be original, unpublished, and must not have won any award. Entrants may submit one entry per day. Our esteemed panel of judges will select about ten winners by March 18, based on originality, creativity, and artistic quality.
The Contest is open to U.S. residents 13 years and older. Contest may only be entered in or from the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia and entries originating from any other jurisdiction are not eligible for entry. No purchase necessary. See the Official Rules of Entry for details.
What You Can Win
Winning poems will be published on NYPL's social media channels during National Poetry Month in April 2013 — reaching more than 1 million fans and followers!
Winners will receive a free set of books by leading American poets including:
Red Doc> by Anne Carson
Quick Question: New Poems by John Ashbery
Place: New Poems by Jorie Graham
The Narrow Road to the Interior by Kimiko Hahn
The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton
Winners may also be featured in a special edition NYPL Poetry eBook
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The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
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