Hello, dear colleagues -
The OSLIST Poetry Contest closes at midnight May 24 (today) - midnight
meaning wherever you are in the world...
Still time for a few poems to float into my in-box (send directly to lisah...@openingspace.net
) - and stay tuned for some lovely poetry for you to all to enjoy and
think about, in just a few days...
If you have not seen previous emails about this, read the excerpt
below...
Lisa
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The OSLIST Biannual Restricted Form Poetry Contest - Summer 2013
Dear Colleagues -
I now re-open the OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest !
Restricted Form means some described form or boundary for the poem.
Whoever feels so inspired - I invite you to create some original
poetry with two guidelines:
1) about Open Space
-and-
(in honor of Keith's recent post and our responses)
2) describing success and productivity in Open Space.
Send your poetry directly to me at lisah...@openingspace.net
before midnight (in whatever time zone you live) on Friday, May 24.
I will collect them and then show them back to you, dear readers -
so you may indicate your favorites - even though this is not a game
of favorites. It is a gift of riches.
It will, however, tell us who our new Poet Laureate of the OSLIST
will be - someone who will hold the space for poetry by sharing
and / or inviting poetry on our list for the next six months.
All of you OSLIST members, including past Poet Laureates, are
invited to participate.
If you write your poem in your own language which may not be
English, please do add a translation in English.
I welcome all your thoughtful words,
Lisa
Lisa Heft,
Past OSLIST Poet Laureate
- with a deep bow to my fellow Poet Laureates
Ralph Copleman , Chris Corrigan, Chris Weaver, Florian Fischer,
Laurel Doersam, Audrey Coward, Joelle Everett, Jeff Aitken, Teresa
Pokasony, Karen Sella, Anne Hiha, Esther Ewing, and Agneta Setterwall
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A little history, from Chris Corrigan:
“For all those who might be curious, the OSLIST Biannual Restricted
Form Poetry Contest started in the spring of 2000 when I issued the
challenge to the list. Ralph Copleman actually began the whole
thing with a contest in the fall of 1999 (which I won) and so he is
the “Poetry King” for all time. I just claimed the “Poet Laureate”
title in an effort to have some fun. It was something of a one
martini idea, and I was out of gin at the time...”
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Looking forward to your creativity,
Lisa
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