BRATTLEBORO-Write Action, a local organization for writers which is based in Brattleboro, will be celebrating National Poetry Month in April with Poems Around Town.
We are in our sixth year with a call for poetry to all poets in Vermont and in the tri-state region.
Poems will be featured in downtown business windows for the month of April. This gives locals and visitors alike an extra uplift to their downtown trip. A flyer listing each business with the associated poet’s name and poem title will be available. In an effort to broaden Write Action’s reach and share more poems throughout Brattleboro, some poems will be duplicated and posted in Canal Street businesses. Severia Drake of Byway Books & More helped facilitate this effort last year and will again help this year.
Submission guidelines:
• Poems should fit on one page.
• Font size must be at least 14 points and easily readable (such as Times New Roman, Cambria, Helvetica).
• Two poems max per submission. Each poem should include the author’s name and town of residence at the bottom of the page. Poems should have been written within the past year.
• If previously published, please acknowledge publication information at the bottom of the poem or in a cover letter.
• Email submissions to info@writeaction.org as attachments. Subject line should include “PAT” and the title or first line of your poem.
• Submissions deadline is Saturday, Feb. 28.
A reading by this year’s PAT poets will be held at the end of April, on a date and at a venue to be decided.
Poems Around Town is co-sponsored by Write Action, Brooks Memorial Library, and ByWay Books.
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