SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL PEACE WEEK POETRY CONTEST

Jeffrey M. Lucey Veterans for Peace Cape Cod Chapter 041 invites submissions of poems to celebrate “Peace Week”, April 9 - 13, 2012. The contest is open to all Cape & Islands writers. Winners will be selected from 14 categories from grades K - 12 and adults.

CONTEST RULES 

1. Poems should focus 

(a) on thoughts of peace and the abolition of war, hate, or violence; 

(b) on what I can do to help make a peaceful world for all; 

(c) on some of the ways war can be avoided; 

(d) on inner peace-how we become peaceful within ourselves so that we can face the “other person” with mercy and forgiveness; or 

(e) on examples of non-violent attitudes and actions that lead to friendship, negotiation, social justice and peace.

2. Each contestant may submit only one poem, no more than 50 lines, rhymed or free verse. Poems will be photocopied for a booklet to be given to each winner, so please try to keep poems on one 8 1/2 X 11 page.

3. The following should appear at the top of the page: Title and author’s name. Entries from K-12 should also include at the top of the page: Grade, name of school, town, and teacher’s name. At the bottom or back of page please include your address, phone number and email (if appropriate for contact with winners).

4. All entries must be original and unpublished. Previous prize-winning poems are ineligible. Any entry of questionable originality will be disqualified. Help with spelling and grammar is permissible at appropriate levels, but providing words or phrases will disqualify an entry.

CLOSING DATE All entries must be received (not just postmarked) by 5 PM, Friday, March 30, 2012.

Entries should be sent to Veterans for Peace, PO Box 102, West Hyannisport, MA 02672. For more information call Nina Tepper at 508-775-4045 or Max Money at 508-771-3915.

JUDGES

All entries will be judged by the Guyer Barn Poets of Cape Cod and Teacher Volunteers

AWARDS

In each category: 1st Honors winners, $25; 2nd Honors winners, $15 gift certificate from a local bookstore. There will be “Honorable Mention” for each category. Judges reserve the right to declare no winner when too few entries are submitted within a category. 

All winners receive a certificate, a published book and are invited to read their poems at a public gathering at South Congregational Church, Centerville, on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 10 AM.(Registration 9:30)