|
| Notices |
It's been a while, Unregistered -- Welcome back to Eratosphere! |
|
|
07-19-2017, 11:15 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 2,942
|
|
A Sonnet Success
Earlier this evening I was informed my poem “Cloistered” won a $150 prize in the Maria Faust Sonnet Contest, which is part of the annual Great River Shakespeare Festival held in Winona, MN. This year 469 sonnets were submitted by poets from across the U.S. and from overseas. Prizes are awarded in several categories. Since I’ve written very few sonnets, this award is especially gratifying.
Last edited by Richard Meyer; 07-19-2017 at 11:18 PM.
|
07-20-2017, 06:23 AM
|
 |
Member
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Canada and Uruguay
Posts: 5,857
|
|
Good news! Congratulations!
|
07-20-2017, 07:42 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Iowa City, IA, USA
Posts: 10,099
|
|
Congratulations, Richard.
Susan
|
07-20-2017, 10:06 AM
|
 |
Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Halcott, New York
Posts: 9,875
|
|
Cool, Richard.
Nemo
|
07-20-2017, 01:01 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Northern New Jersey
Posts: 8,931
|
|
Nice ROI. Congrats!
|
07-20-2017, 03:32 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Posts: 9,656
|
|
Money for sonnets? Always worthy of applause! Congrats, Richard.
|
07-20-2017, 05:00 PM
|
 |
Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Middle England
Posts: 6,955
|
|
That's fantastic news, Richard.
Well done!!!! (Go and write some more sonnets; that's not a bad rate per line  )
Jayne
|
07-20-2017, 10:43 PM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 2,942
|
|
Thank you, friends in the craft, for stopping by with your regards.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this recent good fortune of mine is that I took a very old, rather unremarkable, twelve line poem from my junk folder, a poem written nearly 40 years ago, and rewrote and recast it as a sonnet. My expectations of the poem doing well in the Shakespeare sonnet contest were small indeed, but obviously the judges liked it. If there's a lesson here, it may be that we should hang on to our early and disappointing work and feel free to cannibalize ourselves.
Richard
|
07-26-2017, 10:11 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 7,489
|
|
Good news, Richard! Late reply, but sincere congratulations!
|
07-26-2017, 12:27 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Breaux Bridge, LA, USA
Posts: 3,491
|
|
Congratulations from Louisiana!
PS: I had a similar experience to yours when I took an old sonnet that had garnered a few rejections, changed the last two lines & it won a Nemerov.
Moral: NEVER THROW ANYTHING OUT!
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
 |
Member Login
Forum Statistics:
Forum Members: 8,404
Total Threads: 21,907
Total Posts: 271,526
There are 3207 users
currently browsing forums.
Forum Sponsor:
|
 |
 |
|
 |
|
Linear Mode
