Mail Entries to:
Mikki Pennington, Contest Chair
P. O. Box 7842
Moore, Oklahoma 73153-7842
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, 2020
Open to All
1. Conclave Journal Award 1st Place $40.00 || 2nd Place $30.00
|| 3rd Place $20.00 Form: Poet’s Choice
Theme:
Poet’s Choice
Line Length: 40 Lines maxSponsors: Lara &
Bill Bernhardt Judge: TBA
2. Geraldine Moore
Memorial Award 1st Place $30.00 ||2nd
Place $20.00 || 3rd Place $10.00 Form:
Poet’s Choice Theme: Poet’s Choice
Line Length: less than 30 Lines Sponsors &
Judges: Jymmie & G.K. Stanton
3. David and Bill Stewart Memorial Award
1st Place $30.00 || 2nd Place $20.00 || 3rd Place $10.00
Form: Vivianne Sonnet—15 lines iambic
pentameter Rhyme: abcd abcd abcd eee
Theme: Common Sense Line Length:
15 lines form required Sponsors:
Vivian & Lowell Stewart Judge: Vivian
Stewart
4. Jack Koch Memorial Award
1st Place $2.00 || 2nd Place $15.00 || 3rd Place $10.00
Form: Etheree Theme: Poet’s Choice
Line Length: 10 lines (form required)
Sponsor: Patti Koch Judge:
TBA
5. Sonnet Award In Honor of Dr. Lewis Turco
1st Place $25.00 || 2nd Place $15.00 || 3rd Place $10.00
Form: Any modern or traditional rhymed or
unrhymed sonnet (please note
name of sonnet form used on poem) Theme:
Poet’s Choice Line Length: As required by form
Sponsor & Judge: Sandy Soli
6. Happiness In Haiku 1st
Place $25.00 || 2nd Place $15.00 || 3rd Place $10.00
Form: traditional Haiku Theme:
Poet’s Choice Line Length: 3 Lines
Sponsor & Judge: Beverly Stanislawski
7. Windmill Poets Award
1st Place
$20.00 || 2nd Place
$10.00 || 3rd Place
$5.00 Form: Poet’s Choice
Theme: Sounds of animals
(no cruelty or abuse) Line Length: 40 Lines
Sponsors: Windmill Poets Judge: TBA
8. Japanese Tanka Award 1st
Place
$25.00 || 2nd Place
$15.00 || 3rd Place
$10.00 Form: Traditional Tanka w/title
Theme: Poet’s Choice Line Length: Five lines -
5/7/5/7/7 Sponsor: Anonymous Judge: TBA
Only for PSO Members who live in
Oklahoma
and have not served as PSO Poet
Laureate
9. PSO Poets Laureate Award
1st Place
$25.00 || 2nd Place
$15.00 || 3rd Place
$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
10. PSO Past Presidents’ Award || Honoree: Joan & Eddie Wilcoxen
1st Place $15.00 || 2nd Place $10.00 || 3rd Place $5.00
Form: Poet’s Choice Theme: Family
Line Length: one page Sponsors:
PSO Board Judge: TBA
11. Lector Lillian Hall Memorial Award
1st Place $40.00 || 2nd Place $30.00 || 3rd Place $20.00
Form: Rannaicheacht Ghairid- Irish Poetry
Form** **For example see—www.thepoetsgarret.com
Celtic Poetry Theme: Poet’s Choice
Line Length: 16 Lines Sponsors:
Karen Kay Bailey Judge: TBA
12. Laughter is the Best Medicine Award | In Memory of PSO’s
Humorist, Clark Elliott
1st Place $30.00 || 2nd Place $20.00 || 3rd Place
$10.00 Form: End Rhymes – pure
and/or slant, hopefully unexpected. Theme:
Humor – Make us laugh! If you (like Clark) have the gift of wit,
write a poem that gives us a hearty laugh! Be original – do
not retell a familiar joke.
Line Length: one page Sponsors:
Vivian & Lowell Stewart Judge: Vivian Stewart
13. Formal Haiku Award
1st Place $20.00 || 2nd $10.00 || 3rd Place $5.00
Form: formal Haiku = 5-7-5 syllables
Theme: Poet’s Choice Line Length:
3 lines (form required) Sponsor:
Anonymous Judge: TBA
14. Oklahoma Historical Award
1st Place $25.00 ||
2nd Place $15.00 3rd Place $10.00 Form:
Poet’s Choice Theme: An Oklahoma
Memory Line Length: one page
Sponsor: Mary M. Goad-Chase Judge:
TBA
15. Alda Johnson Memorial Award
1st Place
$25.00 || 2nd Place $15.00 || 3rd Place $10.00
Form: Poet’s Choice Theme:
Sisterly Love Line Length: 40 Lines max
Sponsor & Judge: Dena R. Gorrell
16. Blank Verse Award | In Honor of
Sandy Solis’ Encouragements 1st
Place $20.00 || 2nd Place $10.00 || 3rd Place $5.00
Form: Blank Verse: Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Theme: Poet’s Choice Line Length:
40 Lines max Sponsor: Anonymous
Judge: TBA
EXAMPLE POEM FOR CONTEST 11
EXAMPLE POEM:
Rannaicheacht Ghairid
(ron-a'yach cha'r-rid):
A quatrain stanza with uneven
lines. The first line has three syllables, the other three have
seven. The stanza rhymes a a b a, with a cross-rhyme between three
and four.
A x a x x x x x x a x x
x x x x b x x x x x x A
Fatal attraction
Spider's throne; myriads of
sparkling stones Dawn generously spread out, call each scout
to deadly zones.
Come, she sings, fly on your gossamer
wings; in my lair I will keep close, who once rose- caught
in my strings.
Fight no more, surrender your very core
to the Oneness of the Web- flood and ebb in full rapport.
I have thrown my glittering net to drones; be the feed
I'm thriving on- you've won to share Spider's throne.
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