Climbing the Poet's Tree: Challenges #5-6

[jjhunter]

Congratulations are due to the last round's winner: untonuggan won Challenge #3 with Up/Down. There was no eligible winner for Challenge #4, though untonuggan did a lovely fill for that challenge as well (Lizcommotion's "Best of Poetree" posts...Weekly Challenge #4). Thanks go to ariestess for being our judge for the third challenge.

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For Writers:

Challenge #5: Create a piece of found poetry.

For Readers:

Challenge #6: In honor of Adrienne Rich's passing on March 27th, choose & repost or link to one of her poems in your own space and include a few sentences about why you selected that particular poem and what aspects of it did (or didn't!) work well for you. Alternatively, review a cowboy poem.

This week's prizes:

Winners will receive their choice of either 30 Dreamwidth points (i.e. one month of paid time) or custom digital art icon (100x100 pixels, 300 ppi) on a theme of their choosing made for them by jjhunter. (Sample of larger piece here.)

More Contest Details:

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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 a link to your poem or post; if you complete both, please comment separately for each challenge.

The deadline for both challenges is Friday, April 13th, 11:59 PM EST ETA: date changed to Friday, April 20th, 11:59 EST. Winners will be announced that Sunday.

Join us under the Poet's Tree for our Sunday Picnic

[alee_grrl]

Sunday, every Sunday, let's have a community picnic. It's probably been a long week, and it's lovely to have a few minutes to sit back and relax and enjoy some good conversation in a less formal space. Feel free to bring something for the Picnic Basket - a poem you liked this week, a thought you had or something you experienced, or even something completely unrelated to poetry whatsoever that you just feel like sharing. Just take a moment to say hello, and maybe have a bite to eat; no one is going anywhere fast, and the shade promises some relief from the everyday heat. Let’s get to know each other a bit better, here under the branches of the poet’s tree.