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 Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:20 am Post subject: Poetry Contest: Ars Poetica |
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The Princess of Parataxis commands you to write an "Ars Poetica".
That's a Latin phrase meaning the art or nature of poetry,
so basically you write a poem about what poetry is, what it should be.
If you want examples of them, Aristotle, Horace, and Czesław Miłosz wrote the most famous "Ars Poetica"s, but there are many more. This is Archibald MacLeish's:
http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/liu/english25/materials/macleish.html
First prize will be four and a half in depth critiques.
Second prize will be two in depth critiques.
Third prize will be half an in depth critique.
Anyway, get your Ars into it. |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| Is there a deadline? |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:55 am Post subject: |
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A month from now, sorry babe, put it in the thingie bar but not in the actual post.
the deadline is January 7th, 2008 |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:01 am Post subject: |
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| ooo. Though I believe my poetry is incredebly lacking, this sounds like fun! hehe, kit, Four and a half? interesting number there...How do you plan to manage that half critique? |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| That depend on who wins, if they'd like the first or the last half critiqued, half in parts, or just for me to be half-arsed about the whole thing. **laughs** |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:09 am Post subject: |
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| I sorta wrote a poem, but it...well, it will probably be too obscure to get the poetry message across. So is it alright if it's incredibly confusing and twisted and doesn't have anything to do with poetry on first look? |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:12 am Post subject: |
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| Uh, Gadi, I'm the one judging it, of course it's allowed to be confusing and twisted, be very hypocritical if anything that didn't make sense was verboten. |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| Sorry, one more question; do you want it posted in the lit forums and a link here, or would you like poems via PM? |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh, you can post it in the lit forums with a link here if you so choose, that way I suppose you get feedback from everyone else as well. |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 3:50 am Post subject: |
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| Whee! Here's my poem! ^_^ |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:54 am Post subject: |
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| Now that I have read through this carefully, and feel slightly more confident about my poetry... I must attempt this. Hopefully I can bring something out in time. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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well, here it is-
http://www.youngwriterssociety.com/post284932.html#284932 |
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| Some truly amazing entries here, I'm proud, and hate you all for possessing so much talent. It's the 7th for me here, but if there are last minute entries, I can be bribed, and it's still the 6th somewhere, I'm sure. Comprehensive judge's report to follow. |
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