[Susan McLean]

This is short notice, but I just heard about the contest below, sponsored by Allison Joseph at the Rondeau Roundup. So if anyone has a Rondeau Redoublé hanging about in a drawer, you might want to enter it (see rules below).

Susan



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Relaunching the Rondeau Roundup Blog with the Learning to Cope Poetry Prize!
http://therondeauroundup.blogspot.com

The Rondeau Roundup blog is having a contest for the best poem in the Rondeau Redouble form! Our inspiration is the classic poem in the form by Wendy Cope:

https://genius.com/Wendy-cope-rondea...uble-annotated

Deadline: submitted by April 3, 2017.

Contest Rules:

Only one rondeau redouble may be submitted per person. No entry fee. Top five poems will be published on the blog (therondeauroundup.blogspot.com). The first place rondeau redouble will also receive a $100 gift card from Barnes and Noble.

For this contest, I'm looking for rondeau redoubles that follow the set rhyme scheme, as given at

http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/inde...letvillanelle/


Examples of the form:
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets...ah/poems/22453
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/44836
https://anthonywilsonpoetry.com/2016...dorothy-nimmo/

No other poetic form will be accepted for this contest.


Rondeau Redoubles inspired by themes found in the poems of Wendy Cope particularly welcome.

To enter, send a single rondeau redouble

rondeauroundupATgmailDOTcom (replace AT with @) by April 3, 2017.

Winners will be announced on the Rondeau Roundup Blog on April 15, 2017


[Edited by Julie Steiner to indicate that the deadline has now passed.]