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Enter the Out of Our poetry contest, for the best poem containing the phrase “out of our” at least once. Submit 1- 3 poems totaling no more than 9 pages with a $5 entry fee to the address below. Tom Weigel of the New London School of Poetry in CT will judge and all entries will be anonymous.
Postmark deadline: June 2, 2010.
Winning poem will be published in the 7th volume of Out of Our (out in July), and will receive $50 plus a free year subscription (which can be donated back if you like!). I hope to have an online submission soon at www.outofour.com, but note that you can send entries for this contest (manuscript plus check for $5) to:
Out of Our
1288 Columbus Ave #216
San Francisco, CA
94133
Friends and students of Tom Weigel are asked to please refrain from entering. Make sure no personally identifying information is on your printed poems. Include a cover sheet which indicates only the titles of your poems and your Name, Address, and Email.
Tom Weigel is a legendary poet, painter, bi-weekly open mic host and poetry-coach. He was affiliated with the St. Mark’s Church Poetry Project under Anne Waldman’s directorship, and now heads the New London School of Poetry, holding down the fort in the coastal town of New London, CT. He is the editor of Tangerine and Burp.
Some of his chapbooks include: A Faint Humming, Haiku You Can Squeeze, Extended Glitch, Gingerroot Trail, East Of The Sun, Panic Hardware, Audrey Hepburn's Symphonic Salad and the Coming of Autumn, Little Heart, and 24 Haiku.
His poems have appeared in the following publications: The Paris Review, Elephant, Flying Fish, Telephone, Hard Press, Haiku Headlines, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Fuck, CokeFishing in Alphabeat Soup, Chronogram, unarmed, Out of Our, Tangerine, Burp, and Anne Waldman’s “Out of This World: An Anthology from The Poetry Project at the St. Mark's Church In-the-Bowery 1966-1991.”
Out of Our: not necessarily related to recession of common decency, acceleration of greed, lack of We the People, neither democrat nor republican: Out of Our.