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ContestsMay Members-Only Contest(REMINDER: Submission to a contest constitutes permission to publish.) Deadline: April 10, 2025 Contest details can be found in the March issue of the Stanza. Contest Poem 30-line limit. A narrative poem focusing on nature and using anaphora. Anaphora is a literary device that requires the writer to repeat a word or phrase in multiple lines (usually at the beginning of multiple lines) usually to emphasize meaning and create rhythm. Winners of our May 2025 Members-only ContestContest: Employ anaphora to create a nature-themed poem. First Place –“Under Cetus,” Diane Hunt 1st Honorable Mention –“In the Forest,” Linda Spalding
PRIZE POEM CONTEST INFORMATIONThe Board of Maine Poets Society had hoped to share this month an announcement about this year s Maine Prize Poem, a state-wide writing contest we have offered since 2018. Unfortunately, we ve had to make the difficult decision to suspend this contest for 2025. For the last six months we have been unable to fill vacancies on the Board, so right now we do not have the necessary staffing to publicize, organize, and judge submissions with all the attention that our regional poets and poetry deserve. Therefore, there will be no Maine Prize Poem opportunity this year. However, we hope to reinstate the contest in the future. We especially encourage those poets who could have entered in the previously unpublished category to keep writing with a future contest entry in mind. We wish continued success to those poets eligible for the published category. We encourage you to follow Maine Poets Society on social media to learn more about the opportunities we can support for Maine s poetry community, including members-only contests, workshops, readings-in-the-round, and more. If you re not yet a member, we invite you to join us at our upcoming meetings to see what we re all about. Meetings are scheduled for May 10 and September 27, 2025. Information will be posted on our Facebook page and on our website. We are also looking forward to Maine Poets Society s 90th anniversary celebration in 2026.
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