Thirty Poems for San Antonio’s First 300 Years
The 2017
Thirty Poems for San Antonio’s First 300 Years Contest is now
OPEN and offering $7,500 in prizes!
Deadline: August 15, 2017
Submission is FREE!
In honor
of San
Antonio’s Tricentennial, the Department of Arts and Culture of
the City of San Antonio, with support from Gemini Ink, is
sponsoring a poetry contest.
The
contest will be judged by a panel of nationally recognized poets. Winners
receive a $250 prize and publication in a chapbook titled, Thirty Poems for the
Tricentennial: A Poetic Legacy. Winning poems will be turned into graphically
designed vinyl installations by local artists and designers in an exhibit at
the Plaza de Armas Gallery, and also installed in local libraries and city
facilities. The anthology will be launched at a public reading and opening
reception.
The
contest contains six categories, described below, which span San Antonio’s dynamic 300-year history. Poems
submitted need not be overtly “historical,” but must reference the
culture/feeling/life of San Antonio during these different time
periods.
The
Pre-Columbian era or Yanaguana (prior to 1718)
The
Spanish Colonial Period (1718-1809)
Mexican
era (1810-1836)
Texas
Nation era (1836-1846)
San Antonio: Crossroads City (1846-1946)
Modern
Times (1947-2017)