Five more days to post your poems for this year's Poetry Contest. The theme for poems is OST; the form is satire.
Satire: A literary work in which irony, derision, or wit in any form is used to expose folly or wickedness. (American Heritage dictionary) Satire: (from Latin satira, satura, a poetic medley; from satura, a dish filled with various fruits, a medley; from satur, full of food, sated) A poem or prose work holding up human vices, follies, etc. to ridicule or scorn. Trenchant wit, irony or sarcasm, used for the purpose of exposing and discrediting vice or folly. (Webster's New Collegiate dictionary) Poets, satirists, wits . . . we await your words. What folly would you like to expose . . . or celebrate? Joelle Everett the almost-ex-poet laureate * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
