New Orleans writers! If you’re a poet, poetry lover, or even a poetry hater, in celebration of National Poetry Month the Latter Library is hosting its first annual Worst Verse Bad Poetry competition. Eligible to all current students in the greater New Orleans area, the Library welcomes submissions of original bad poetry by the end of April, for a public reading and performance of the worst verses on Thursday, May 16th.
The rules are:
- Students at New Orleans area high schools and colleges are eligible to enter
- Poems must be original work, previously unpublished
- Poems must be 40 lines maximum
- Poems can be in any form – rhyme is encouraged, but not required
- Subject matter must be PG-13 or below (use your judgment!)
- One submission per poet
- Submissions will be judged anonymously by a panel of local poets, readers, librarians, and book-lovers.
To enter, email your submission with cover sheet including your name, school, class, age, email address, and phone number to kmartin@neworleanspubliclibrary.org by April 30, 2013. The best of the worst will win gift cards to local bookstores worth up to $50 (yes, you read that right) and new journals to fill with good poetry. We’re looking forward to reading the very worst of your work — so get writing!
benjamin morris 