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Poetry Matters and the 成人VR视频 Writing Centre are pleased to announce that this year, for its 100th anniversary, the prestigious , hosted by (Massachusetts, USA), will be accepting submissions from undergraduate 成人VR视频 students.
Since 1924, students from Mount Holyoke and five other schools have been selected to participate in this competition, which has counted among its judges and winners renowned poets such as Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, and Maggie Nelson. This year鈥檚 judges are , , and .
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Only undergraduate students currently enrolled at 成人VR视频 are eligible. All interested poets should send up to three poems totaling no more than six pages and a 100-150-word writer鈥檚 statement to poetrymatters.english [at] mcgill.ca, with the subject line 鈥淕lascock Poetry Contest,鈥� by 15 December 2023. Submissions should be formatted in 12pt. font as a Word document or PDF. As submissions will be anonymized, please do not include your name on either your poems or your writer鈥檚 statement.
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The committee reviewing submissions will consider matters of craft, voice, language, and form. Poets selected to participate in the competition will be notified in January, at which time they will be asked to prepare a selection of poems to read aloud at the contest on 31 March 2024, at Mount Holyoke (South Hadley, Massachusetts), before a college and area audience including the judges. Mount Holyoke will pay for students鈥� travel expenses, lodging, and meals.