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Mail Entries to:
Barbara Shepherd
2913 Gettysburg Rd
Edmond, OK 73013-6459
PSO members include check, cashier's
check, or money order for $5.00 'Flat Fee' for one or all
category entries. Non-PSO entrants please include $3.00 per
poem. Submit only
one entry per category.
Postmark Deadline is December 15, 2023
Open to All
1. Geraldine Moore
Memorial
1st
$30.00 || 2nd
$20.00 || 3rd
$10.00
Form:
Poet's Choice
Theme:
Poet’s Choice
Line Length: less than 30 lines
Sponsors & Judges: Jymmie & G.K. Stanton
2.
The Harvey B. Nelson Memorial Award
1st
$25.00 || 2nd
$15.00 || 3rd
$10.00
Form: Sestina
Theme:
Poet’s Choice
Line Length: 40 Lines Max
Sponsor: Patti Koch
Judge: TBA
3. Katherine Williams
Memorial Award
1st
$25.00 || 2nd
$15.00 || 3rd
$10.00
Form:
Poet’s Choice
Theme:
Light
Line Length: 40 Lines Max
Sponsor & Judge: Audrey
Streetman
4. Windmill Poets Award
1st
$25.00 || 2nd
$15.00 || 3rd
$10.00
Form: Poet’s Choice
Theme: Winning
Line Length: more
than 8 lines
Sponsor:
Windmill Poets
Judge: TBA
5. Formal Haiku Award
1st
$20.00 || 2nd
$10.00 || 3rd
$5.00
Form: Formal Haiku –
5/7/5 syllables
Theme: Poet’s Choice
Line Length: as form requires – 3 lines
Sponsor: Anonymous
Judge: TBA
6. Dad and I Award
In Memory of Jerry Burgess
1st
Place $20.00 || 2nd
Place $15.00 || 3rd
Place $10.00
Form:
Poet’s Choice
Theme:
Favorite memory of father or father figure.
Line Length: 30 lines max
Sponsor & Judge:
Rob Burgess
Only for PSO Members who live in Oklahoma and have not
served as PSO Poet Laureate
7. PSO Poets Laureate Award
1st
$25.00 || 2nd
$15.00 || 3rd
$10.00
Form: Poet’s Choice
Theme: Poet’s Choice
Line Length: 40
lines max
Sponsors: PSO Past Poets’ Laureate
Judge: TBA
Open to PSO Members Only
8. PSO Past Presidents’ Award
1st
$15.00 || 2nd
$10.00 || 3rd
$5.00
Form: Poet’s Choice
Theme: Poet’s Choice
Line Length:
one page
Sponsors: PSO Board
Judge:
TBA
9. Patti Koch Appreciation Award
1st
$35.00 || 2nd
$25.00 || 3rd
$15.00
Form:
Rondeau
Theme: A person/event that made a
difference
Line Length: 15 lines as per form
Sponsor & Judge: PSO President, Judith Rycroft
10. Chase Memorial Award
1st
$25.00 || 2nd
$15.00 || 3rd
$10.00
Form:
Poet’s Choice
Theme: Family
Line
Length: one page
Sponsor: Donna
Wingo, daughter to Mary Chase
Judge: TBA
11. Lector Lillian Hall Memorial Award
1st
$25.00 || 2nd
$20.00 || 3rd
$15.00
Form:
Triad – 3 line stanzas – 3 stanzas
Theme:
Poet’s Choice
Line Length: 9 lines as per form
Sponsor & Judge: Karen Kay Bailey
12.
Tribute to the Oklahoma State Bird, the Scissortail Flycatcher
1st
$25.00 || 2nd
$15.00 || 3rd
$10.00
Form:
Free
Verse
Theme: Oklahoma State bird, Scissortail
Flycatcher
Line Length: no limit
Sponsor & Judge: Vivian Stewart
13. Alda Johnson & Minnie Moore
Memorial
1st
$25.00 || 2nd
$15.00 || 3rd
$10.00
Form:
Poet’s Choice
Theme: Sisterly Love
Line Length: 40 lines max
Sponsor & Judge:
Dena Gorrell
14. Ruby Barber Memorial Award
1st
$25.00 || 2nd
$15.00 || 3rd
$10.00
Form:
Poet’s Choice
Theme: Poet’s Choice
Line Length: No limit
Sponsors: Carol
Hamilton
Judge: TBA
15. The Acrostic Award
1st
Place $20.00 || 2nd
Place $15.00 || 3rd
Place $10.00
Form:
Acrostic
Theme: Poet’s Choice of theme and word or phrase
Line Length: 30 lines max
Sponsor:
Rob Burgess
Judge:
TBA
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