Poetry Stamps/Vocabula Writing Contest

Writer’s Thought for the Week: Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn. ~ Clifton Fadiman

On April 21, the U.S. Postal Service® will begin sale of Twentieth-Century Poets stamps honoring ten of the nation’s most admired poets: Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Brodsky, Gwendolyn Brooks, E. E. Cummings, Robert Hayden, Denise Levertov, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stevens, and Wil­liam Carlos Williams. The many awards won by this illustri­ous group include numerous Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and honorary degrees. Each stamp features a photograph of one of the ten poets and text on the back of the stamp sheet includes an excerpt from one poem by each poet.

VOCABULA WELL-WRITTEN WRITING CONTEST
http://www.vocabula.com/popupads/VRWritingContest.asp

Deadline May 31, 2012.

Send “200 to 500 words of readable, well-written, even beautiful
writing,” fiction or nonfiction, no poetry. Your first entry is free. $15 fee for each entry after your first.

1st prize $200, 2nd prize $100, 3rd prize $50. Winners and honorable mentions receive a one-year subscription to The Vocabula Review.

The web site has a link where you can read the prior winners.