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Congratulations to

spiralsheep for winning Challenge #15, the summer haiku challenge. Thanks to all who entered, all the entries were wonderful. Congratulations to

bookblather for winning Challenge #16, our readers challenge.

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For Writers:
Challege #17: The solstice was this past week, marking the day where the days were either at their shortest or longest amount of sunshine depending on which hemisphere you live in. So this week's challenge is to write a poem about the longest day or longest night. It can be about the activities of the day, time itself, waiting, or anything else connected to the topic.

For Readers:
Challenge #18:

serene provided us with some wonderful examples of plain-language poems this week. Which one of the linked poems did you like the most? Why? You may answer in the comments or on your own blog. Answers do not need to be long or complex.

This week'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) by

alee_grrl.

The winner for each week’s writing challenge will be chosen by a rotating volunteer from the community. (This week’s volunteer judge is to be announced.) If you are interesting in being a judge, please sign up here. The winner for the reader’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: this week’s judge (ineligible for Challenge #1; eligible for Challenge #2); last week’s winners (ineligible for whichever challenge they won last week); the winner of Challenge #1 (ineligible for winning Challenge #2); and the POETREE admins,

jjhunter &

alee_grrl (ineligible for both challenges).

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 links to your poem or comments; if you complete both, please comment separately for each challenge. Deadline for challenge is Friday, June 29, 2012 at 11:59 EDT. Winners will be announced that Sunday.