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Subject: Last Week to Enter! WE PROJECT POETRY CONTEST - YOUTH AND
ADULT DIVISIONS
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 05:47:02 -0800
From: Don Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Don Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The WE Project
2005-2006 Poetry Contest
Theme: The Landscape Politic
-The impact of geography, environment on the body politic, the body,
politics, community, love, connection, empowerment and change.
There will be two divisions; an Adult Division and a Youth Division.
Awards:
Adult Division
First prize: $300
Publication in contest anthology
5 copies of contest anthology
Second prize: $100
Publication in contest anthology
5 copies of contest anthology
Honorable mention: (15 awarded)
Publication in contest anthology
5 copies of contest anthology
____________________________________
Youth Division
First prize: $100 Gift certificate (TBA)
Publication in contest anthology
5 copies of contest anthology
framed certificate
Second prize: $50 Gift certificate (TBA)
Publication in contest anthology
5 copies of contest anthology
framed certificate
Honorable mention: (7 awarded)
Publication in contest anthology
5 copies of contest anthology
framed certificate
Entry fee:
Adult Division: $10
Youth Division: No entry fee.
Guidelines:
Both Divisions:
Each contestant must;
1. submit three copies of 3 original poems of any length, on the theme
of the landscape politic. Each poem must be submitted on a separate
page and may not include the name of the poet.
2. provide an application or cover sheet with the list of the titles of
the poems submitted along with the name, bio, address, email and phone
number of the poet.
3. sign application or cover sheet affirmation.
4. submit work by February 15, 2006 or postmarked February 10, 2006.
Certified or registered mail requiring signature will NOT be accepted.
Send submissions to
THE WE PROJECT PO BOX 1664 BALDWIN PARK, CA 91706
5. Poems submitted in a language other then English, must include a
translation and will be judged (with the exception of Spanish) on the
English translation.
Adult Division:
Each contestant must provide a check or money order of $10
Youth Division:
Each applicant
1.must have one adult sponsor responsible for submission and delivery of
work, and to serve as a contact person.
2. be between the ages of 10 and 18 and reside in Los Angeles and Orange
County.
Judges:
DON KINGFISHER CAMPBELL is the founder of POETRY people youth writing
workshops, publisher of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, leader
of the Emerging Urban Poets Writing Workshop and Wednesday Afternoon
Critique Workshop, and host of Monday Night Poetry in Pasadena,
California. He is the recipient of the National Writers Association's
Los Angeles Chapter Author Of The Month Certificate, the Artists For A
Better World Spirit Of Youth Award, an Honorable Mention in the
Pathetic.org 9/11 poetry contest, the Pennsylvania State Poetry
Society's Charles Ferguson Prize, and an Arroyo Arts Collective's Poetry
In The Windows Prize. His poetry has been recently published in the
anthologies Free-Wheeling, Prism Quarterly, Open Windows, Cookies And
Poetry, Dirt, Cosmic Brownies, Three Chord Poems, Midnight Mind Number
Five, So Luminous The Wildflowers, and One Drop To Be The Color Black;
and is also viewable on the internet at the Tattoo Highway, Poetry
Midwest, River Walk, New Verse News, Poets Against The War, Hiss
Quarterly, Poetic Diversity, Edifice Wrecked, Call To Arts, Lunarosity,
Writer's Hood, Poetic Voices, MindFire Renewed, Poetry Super Highway,
Wilmington Blues, Bonfire, and Poetz websites. His first book of poetry
Enter. was published by iUniverse Press. You can find him interviewed
on Litrave.com and Poetix.net. Campbell serves on the Advisory Board of
The WE Project and served on the Executive Board of the San Gabriel
Valley Poetry Festival 2000.
FRANCISCO LETELIER, is a Chilean born, Venice based artist and writer.
He has been involved in projects throughout the Americas and Europe with
artists and personalities such as Quincy Jones, Jane Goodall, Jackson
Browne, Ariel Dorfman, Claribel Alegria and Tom Hayden. He received a
Grammy Nomination in Package Design for work on Jackson Browne's "World
in Motion" release. Letelier's murals and community art projects can be
found in Oregon, Whittier, California, San Francisco, Venice,
California, Los Angeles, California and Northern Ireland. "From the
Other Side" a series of banners created with incarcerated youth
throughout Los Angeles was on display at the Museum of Tolerance in Los
Angeles and later at the Jocelyn Gallery in Torrance, California. In the
fall of 2001, Letelier began his curatorial direction with "Light Among
Shadows." an interdisciplinary project which honors the lives of his
father, Orlando Letelier , Ronnie Karpen Moffitt, and twenty seven years
of human rights heroes in the Americas. The project has visited
Washington DC, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Eugene Oregon and Whittier,
California, with upcoming exhibits planned for Santiago, Chile and
Amsterdam, Holland. His work has appeared in publications throughout the
world including: The LA Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Le
Monde, The Guardian, Miami Herald, The Nation and Tin House Magazine.
Letelier is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies in
Washington DC. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Amistad
Foundation and The WE Project.
EMMA ROSENTHAL is the founder and Executive Director of The WE Project
and Executive Producer and founder of ¡Café Intifada! She is a disabled
educator, artists, reiki practitioner, writer and human rights activist
living in Southern California. She holds teaching credentials in
California and Massachusetts. Her emphasis has been in the areas of
bilingual and multicultural education. Her experience as a grassroots
organizer, political essayist and speaker has been life long and has
included many progressive causes. She always seeks to combine art,
activism, education and grassroots mobilization. She has been a featured
poet and speaker throughout Southern California at a variety of venues
and programs including; Highways Performance Space, The Autry Museum,
Barnes and Nobel, Poetic License, Borders/Pasadena, Beyond Baroque,
Freedom Fries Follies (a fundraiser for The Center for the Study of
Political Graphics), University of California/Irvine, Chaffey College,
KPFK, Shouting Coyote Festival. United Teachers Los Angeles, Arts in
Action and Hyperpoets. Her work has appeared in several publications
including Lilith Magazine, The Pasadena Star News, The San Gabriel
Tribune, The Arab Media Internet Network, The San Gabriel Valley
Quarterly, LoudMouth Magazine (CSLA) and Coloring Book; An Eclectic
Anthology of Multicultural Writers (Rattlecat Press 2003), as well as
the exhibit, "Light Among Shadows." In 2000 she served on the Executive
Board of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival and has been a producer
of cultural programs throughout Southern California for the last twelve
years.
Deadline for submission: Submissions must be received by February 15,
2006 or postmark February 10, 2006
Announcement of award recipients: March 15, 2006
Book Release: Earth Day 2006
Submissions will not be returned. Please retain copies. Winners will
be notified. Results will be announced on the web page and on
theweproject list serve.
Members of the staff and Advisory Board of The WE Project and their
families are not eligible. Staff and Advisory Board Members may sponsor
a youth, not related to an Advisory Board Member. Judges may not serve
as adult sponsors. Judges will recluse themselves from judging any poems
they recognize.
To sponsor this event in the form of a tax deductible donation, please
contact Emma Rosenthal 818-404-5784 [EMAIL PROTECTED] All
sponsors will be listed prominently in all publicity related to this
event and on our web page.
The WE Project: 2005/2006 Poetry Contest Application: The Landscape Politic
Name of
contestant______________________________________________________________
Address_______________________________________________________________________
Phone ___________________ Email________________________
Titles of poems
1.____________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________
3.____________________________________________________
Bio:_(50 words or less)
________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Youth Poetry Contest: (Youth contestants must also fill out the
information requested above.)
Name of adult
sponsor_________________________________________________________
Relationship to
artist___________________________________________________________
Address______________________________________________________________________
Phone Email______________________________ age______
All Contestants: I swear/affirm that the poems submitted to this contest
are my original work and that I have adhered to all of the guidelines
and requirements stipulated in the 2005/2006 We Project Poetry Contest.
I am not a member of the staff nor a family member of the Advisory Board
of The WE Project.
Applicant
signature___________________________________________________________
Adult sponsor of youth applicant
signature__________________________________________
Add my name to The WE Project list serve yes____ no ____
THE WE PROJECT PO BOX 1664 BALDWIN PARK, CA 91706
_____________________________________________________________________________________
--
"I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my
health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only
real reason for living."
-Frida Kahlo
emma rosenthal is a disabled artist, writer, educator, activist and consultant,
living in southern california.
emma rosenthal
po box 1664
baldwin park, ca 91706
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
emma's web page:
http://home.earthlink.net/~emmarosenthal
emma's blog: In Bed With Frida Kahlo
http://inbedwithfridakahlo.blogsource.com/
The writing empowerment project http://home.earthlink.net/~theweproject
-educational and organizational consulting and dialogue.
cafe intifada http://home.earthlink.net/~cafeintifada
-art for social justice
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