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Poet Laureate hosts poetry contest
In
celebration of National Poetry Month--April, David Allan Evans, Poet Laureate
of South Dakota, invites middle school and high school students in South
Dakota to enter original poems in the 2004 Jerome Norgren Poetry Contest.
Cash prizes will be awarded to first, second and third place winners in both
levels. Deadline is March 1.
Here are
details of the contest:
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ELIGIBLE WRITERS: Middle School and High School Students in
South Dakota
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PRIZES
First
prize: High School - $50.00 Middle School - $50.00
Second prize: High School - $30.00 Middle School - $30.00
Third prize: High School - $20.00 Middle School - $20.00
Honorable mention list
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JUDGE:
David Allan Evans, Poet
Laureate of
South Dakota
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DEADLINE:
March 1, 2004
(submissions must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2004)
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Writers must keep a copy of any poem submitted, since poems will
not be returned.
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Winners will be invited to read their poems in the National Poetry Month
Celebration at South Dakota State University on Friday, April 16, 2004.
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RULES for submission:
Send a
cover sheet along with no more than three poems per student.
Each poem should be on a separate page without
the author’s name.
The upper left corner of the cover sheet should include:
Student’s name
Grade and School
Address (of school)
Teacher’s name
A statement declaring that the work is the student’s own work and no one
else’s.
David
Allan Evans
English Department
Scobey Hall, P.O. Box 504
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD 57007
The Jerome Norgren Endowment in the SDSU Foundation, the SDSU English
Department, the South Dakota Poetry Society, and Poet Laureate David Allan
Evans.
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