Highland Park Poetry Challenge
Who may participate: Amateurs, semi-professionals, professionals and students of all ages
are invited to submit original poetry in response to the 2018 Poetry Challenge. This year Highland Park Poetry challenges poets to write a response to one of the following prompts:
* Electricity (in honor of the 75th anniversary of Nikolas Tesla’s death)
* Monsters (in honor of the 200th anniversary of publication of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein)
* A Golden Shovel Poem (a poetic form created by Terrence Hayes)
Poems should express the writer’s experiences, thoughts or feelings related to the challenge
themes or form. Previously published works are accepted but please indicate where and when the work appeared. Original poetry of 30 lines or fewer. There is no reading fee to submit one (1) poem. To submit additional poems, there is a reading fee of $4 per poem.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, January 29, 2018