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poetreeAs we've seen this past week, despite being written millennia prior, and often remaining only in fragments, ancient poetry can still resonate strongly with modern readers. For our next pair of comm challenges, let's look at modern poetry that draws on or references ancient themes. Poetry was a revered tradition in many ancient cultures, and challenge takers are welcome to look for inspiration in any culture or tradition from a time before 150 BCE.
Ancient American Poets
Ancient Egyptian Poetry
Ancient Nahuatl Poetry
Ancient Babylonian Poems
Ancient Hebrew Poetry
Ancient Afgan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict
Ancient to Modern: Poetry Through the Ages
Ancient Irish Poetry
Classical Chinese Poetry
If there are other resource links you'd recommend, please feel encouraged to share them in the comments.
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For Writers:
Challenge #37: Write a poem of any kind responding to a poem written before 150 BCE. Please share both the inspiration poem (a link is fine) and your response in the comments.
For Readers:
Challenge #38: Pick a poem written by someone else* in the last fifty years that you think does an exemplary job drawing on or responding to ancient themes, and share or link to it in the comments.
* While you are welcome to pick them, please note that for the sake of fairness, poems written by our volunteer judge,elisabethhewer, are not eligible for winning.
This round's prizes:
Winner of each challenge gets zir choice of 30 dreamwidth points (the equivalent of one month of paid time), or a icon or poem (any format, though some make take more time than others, and on a topic of your choice) from one of thepoetree admins (jjhunter or alee_grrl).
More Contest Details:
The winner for this round’s reader's challenge will be whoever first submits the eligible poem our volunteer judge likes the best of all those submitted for the reader's challenge. (This challenge's volunteer judge iselisabethhewer.) The winner for the writer’s challenge will be chosen randomly among all those who successfully complete the challenge. While anyone is welcome to accept and complete either or both challenges, the following people are not eligible for winning: for Challenge #38 (reader's challenge), the community admins (alee_grrl and jjhunter) and the volunteer judge (elisabethhewer); for Challenge #37 (writer's challenge), the same community admins and whoever wins Challenge #38 are ineligible to win.
Note that you do not have to be a member of POETREE, or even Dreamwidth for that matter, to participate. When you complete one of the challenges, please comment at this post with details; if you complete both, please comment separately for each challenge.Deadline for both challenges is Saturday, October 4th, 2013 at 6:00 PM EST. Winners will be announced on Sunday.
Ancient American Poets
Ancient Egyptian Poetry
Ancient Nahuatl Poetry
Ancient Babylonian Poems
Ancient Hebrew Poetry
Ancient Afgan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict
Ancient to Modern: Poetry Through the Ages
Ancient Irish Poetry
Classical Chinese Poetry
If there are other resource links you'd recommend, please feel encouraged to share them in the comments.
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For Writers:
Challenge #37: Write a poem of any kind responding to a poem written before 150 BCE. Please share both the inspiration poem (a link is fine) and your response in the comments.
For Readers:
Challenge #38: Pick a poem written by someone else* in the last fifty years that you think does an exemplary job drawing on or responding to ancient themes, and share or link to it in the comments.
* While you are welcome to pick them, please note that for the sake of fairness, poems written by our volunteer judge,
elisabethhewer, are not eligible for winning.This round's prizes:
Winner of each challenge gets zir choice of 30 dreamwidth points (the equivalent of one month of paid time), or a icon or poem (any format, though some make take more time than others, and on a topic of your choice) from one of the
poetree admins (jjhunter or alee_grrl). More Contest Details:
The winner for this round’s reader's challenge will be whoever first submits the eligible poem our volunteer judge likes the best of all those submitted for the reader's challenge. (This challenge's volunteer judge is
elisabethhewer.) The winner for the writer’s challenge will be chosen randomly among all those who successfully complete the challenge. While anyone is welcome to accept and complete either or both challenges, the following people are not eligible for winning: for Challenge #38 (reader's challenge), the community admins (alee_grrl and jjhunter) and the volunteer judge (elisabethhewer); for Challenge #37 (writer's challenge), the same community admins and whoever wins Challenge #38 are ineligible to win.Note that you do not have to be a member of POETREE, or even Dreamwidth for that matter, to participate. When you complete one of the challenges, please comment at this post with details; if you complete both, please comment separately for each challenge.Deadline for both challenges is Saturday, October 4th, 2013 at 6:00 PM EST. Winners will be announced on Sunday.
