Each year as part of NCW, ACS sponsors an illustrated poem contest for K-12 students in the US. Please read below for the rules, deadlines, and submission information, and check out the winning poems ...

NEW YORK — There was expectation in the room that someone would deliver a poem as lovely as a tree. Or not. The expectation was about choosing the worst of the worst — the worst bad poem of the year.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Chemists Celebrate Earth Week Illustrated Poem Contest! As part of CCEW 2025, students in grades K–12 were invited to creatively express this year’s theme, ...

A small museum in rural Mayes County is once again inviting Oklahomans of all ages to use their written words to describe ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Organizers have announced they are now accepting entries for the 10th annual Ode to the ZIP Code poetry contest. According to organizers, the contest invites local residents to ...

BRAINERD — Submissions are now open for a poetry contest sponsored by the Lake Country Journal and Central Lakes College’s Verse Like Water visiting poetry program. All levels of writers are ...

It surprises me that John T. Casteen IV and Ted Genoways discredit Foetry.com, while calling for many changes that we have been advocating since the site’s debut (“Contesting the Poetry Contests,” The ...

In little more than a year, the virtual community at Foetry.com has managed to cause a remarkable stir. The Web site has accused several prominent poets and presses of conflicts of interest, and its ...

MEDFORD – The Medford Arts Center has announced its 14th annual Juried Poetry Contest for adults and its fourth annual Juried Poetry Contest for high school students. High school students attending ...

Flanders is the lyricist and co-founder of American Prize, Telly and Anthem Award-winning October Project, who are genre-defying recording artists, producers and musical activists who collaborate in ...

The Mississippi State University Libraries will hold its Third Annual Poetry Contest for Undergraduates as a way to celebrate National Poetry Month in April. Undergraduates are invited to submit a ...