Libraries holding poetry contest
Lincoln County Public Libraries are pleased to announce the 10th annual Lincoln County Poetry Contest! For a full decade, the libraries have been supporting and encouraging the creativity of poets and writers in our communities. Poetry length has been expanded this year to a limit of 100 lines and there is no theme, so entrants are free to follow their creativity, no matter where it takes them.
Our judge this year is the phenomenally talented performance artist and poet Dave Caserio. Dave Caserio is the author of This Vanishing from CW Books and Wisdom For A Dance In The Street, a CD of poetry and music from Gazoobi Tales. A recipient of a Fellowship in Poetry award from the New York State Foundation of the Arts, Dave works with various community outreach programs, the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau, Arts Without Boundaries, the Billings YMCA/Writer’s Voice “Poets on the Prairie,” and for the Billings Clinic Cancer Center conducting writing workshops for cancer survivors. He is a founding member of the writer’s collective, Big Sky Writing, and producer of a series of poetry-in-performance events: A Feast For The Hunger Moon, WordSongs, Arc of the Communal, and I Conjure A Stubborn Faith, which combine poetry, music, dance and the visual arts.
Information about the contest can be picked up from any library branch. There are three age categories, spanning from Kindergarten through adult. First, second, and third place will be awarded in each category and all winners will receive prizes. Join us on Thursday, May 12th at 5 p.m. at the Hot Club in Troy for the annual Poetry Extravaganza, a lively event featuring a performance by our judge and the announcement and reading of the winning poems. An open poetry reading will follow.
Poems can be turned in to any Lincoln County Library branch, or to the school offices of Libby Elementary, Libby Middle/High School, Morrison Elementary, Kootenai Valley Christian School, or Troy Jr./Sr. High. There is a two poem per person limit and the deadline is Friday, April 29, so start scribbling those sonnets, crafting those couplets, and penning those pantoums. If you have any questions, feel free to call Alyssa or Stacy at the Libby library, 293-2778.