By JORDAN MCLEMORE
Student Reporter
The Northwestern English Department is holding a poetry contest and is taking entries now through April 26.
Poems will be judged on creativity, originality, and artistry.
Writers can submitup to three poems. The full-time English faculty will conduct a blind reading to decide the winners. The judges will not know entrants’ names or any information about them while reading the poems.
To ensure anonymity, each entrant should submit two copies of the poem.
The first should include name and basic contact information. The second should only have the title and the poem.
The copies should be dropped off at Vinson Hall 206 or left in the folder on the door.
There will be a first, second, and third place winner, with the first place winner receiving a leather-bound journal and pen and the second and third place winners receiving gift cards. Winners will be notified by email or phone call.
Prizes will be given out at the Quraysh Ali Lansana Reading at noon April 30 at the Ranger Perk.
Anyone who wants to participate in the contest but unable to deliver the work to Vinson Hall may submit poems via email. The format of poems delivered via email must be the same as that for hard copies.
Entries should be sent to english@nwosu.edu with the subject line “NWOSU Poetry Contest.”
Poems sent in via email will be retrieved by a non-judge and printed off to be reviewed by the judges at the end of the work acceptance period.