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Poetry Contest Guidelines:
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Entry Fee: $10
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Submit: 2 poems per Entry Fee
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Maximum of 30 lines
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Place name, address, telephone
and email address on back of each piece
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Deadline:
August 30, 2009
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3 winners and as many as 10 honorable
mentions may be selected
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Author retains all rights
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By entering, author consents to
allow the Guild to publish winners in an Anthology and on the Guild's
website and in any publications used to announce winners and promote
future contests.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar,
 born in Dayton, Ohio, on June
27, 1872, was the first African-American poet and novelist to attain
international recognition. Dunbar was known for his use of dialect, but was
also an accomplished poet and novelist in standard English. At age seventeen
he published his own newspaper, the Dayton Tattler, an
African-American newspaper printed by his high school classmate and friend,
Orville Wright. His first book of poems, Oak and Ivy, was published
in 1893. The book contained Dunbar's first dialect poem, "A Banjo Song."
Dunbar published numerous books of poetry, novels and music during his
career. He died in Dayton on February 9, 1906. |
