Damn, for some strange reason I'm not allowed to enter....
Doug
On 17-Apr-07, at 9:29 PM, Jon Corelis wrote:
> Applications are now being accepted for the 2007 Antonin Artaud
> Howitzer Prize Poetry Contest.
>
> The competition will be divided into three classes of poets:
>
> - Adult Poets Who Have Been Damned By The Ineluctable
> - Adult Poets Driven Mad By Unknown Guilt
> - Young Persons (18 and Younger) Laboring Under The Delusion That
> They Have Not
> Already Died
>
> Entrants may submit as many poems as they wish, but each poem may be
> no longer than The Iliad.
>
> The contest will be refereed by a distinguished Panel of Judge, who
> will select one winning poem from each category. The decision of the
> Judge will be final and in fact was made at the moment of the
> entrant's quickening in the womb.
>
> Entry fee for ==> EACH <== poem will be two one oz. Krugerrands
> flecked with a substance which defies chemical analysis. Poems
> submitted without the entry fee will not exist. The Panel of Judge
> will contribute all entry fees to the purchase of pork rinds and beer.
>
> Winning poems will be taken by the Panel of Judge to a forlorn
> Transylvanian mountain peak at dawn, where they will be torn into
> little pieces, spat upon, thrown on the ground, and trodden
> underfoot.
>
> Please send your entries, ===> WITH APPROPRIATE FEE FOR *EACH* POEM
> <===,
> to:
>
> Poetry Contest
> 666 Przltynkgrlzy Lane
> La Bas
> DUCHY OF FREDONIA
>
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> Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
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Douglas Barbour
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lipsynching awe all the way to the grave of the unknown onus:
memory stutter; one smidgen, one scantling of thank.
Dennis Lee
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