String Poet is a topic on the “Long Island Viewpoint” show, airing Sunday, July 17th on WABC/7. During this program, WABC Eyewitness News anchor Ken Rosato interviews String Poet and Studio Series founder Annabelle Moseley about her life, work, and ongoing involvement in the arts community, from her work with the Stevenson Academy of Fine Arts to the Walt Whitman Birthplace, and String Poet. If you missed the show, which aired on Sunday, July 17th, you can view it on the WABC web site.
Category: Announcements
String Poet is soliciting poems by young female writers, grades 3-12 to celebrate women in literature, for the 2011 Women Writers of Tomorrow Poetry Contest. Proceeds will benefit the Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline and the Walt Whitman Birthplace.
Contest Deadline: Postmarked by June 15th, 2011
Winners and their schools notified during the first week of September. Individual poems MUST have the following information on EACH page:
- poem title and entrance category
- entrant’s name, complete address, home phone number, age, and grade level
- school name, complete address, school phone number, and teacher’s name
- for multiple entries by a teacher: poems must be noted by grade and class period
Send typed poem(s) with SASE and check payable to “Walt Whitman Birthplace Association” to:
String Poet Women Writers Contest
c/o Walt Whitman Birthplace Association
246 Old Walt Whitman Road
West Hills, NY 11746
Entry Fee: $10 per poem, up to 30 lines each.
| Topics: 1 per poem | Categories |
| “What Is a Poem” | A – Grades 3 & 4 |
| “What Poetry Means to Me” | B – Grades 5 & 6 |
| “A Famous Woman” | C – Grades 7 & 8 |
| “What Inspires Me” | D – Grades 9 & 10 |
| E – Grades 11 & 12 |
Awards:
$50 Savings Bond to each first prize-winner (1 per Category). 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in each category will be invited to read their poem at the award ceremony. All finalists and prize-winners will receive a certificate of achievement and keepsake letter of commendation for enhanced college porfolios.
Award Ceremony: Walt Whitman Birthplace Historic Site
Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 1:00 PM with featured reading Kim Bridgford, Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline founder. Presentation of awards by Cynthia Shor, Executive Director of Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and Annabelle Moseley, contest judge, WWBA 2009-2010 Writer in Residence, and founder of String Poet.
Look for a feature article about String Poet, our Studio Series performances at the Long Island Violin Shop, and founder Annabelle Moseley in today’s New York Times (April 17, 2011). It’s in the Metropolitan section, titled Where Strings Are Paired With Poetry.
The article is also on the NY Times web site. Check out the print version if you can, as the on-line article is missing some photographs.
We have received the results from our final judge, Patricia Fargnoli, and we are pleased to announce the official results of the 2011 String Poet Prize! Thanks to all who entered, and congratulations to our winner and finalists!
First Prize:
“Kummi Dance“- Pramila Venkateswaran
Runners Up:
“Homage to Emily Dickinson (xix) “- George H. Northrup
“To the Birds of Spring” – Francine Sterle
Honorable Mentions:
“A Woman is Her Mother, That’s the Main Thing“- Barbara Crooker
“Visionary” -W. F. Lantry
String Poet Editor and Founder Annabelle Moseley was quoted and featured in “April Rhymes”, an article in the “Explore LI” section of today’s (April 4, 2011) Newsday that celebrates National Poetry Month. A companion article was posted on the Long Island Newsday site. We’d like to thank Newsday, especially columnist Lauren R. Harrison, for their support of the arts.
String Poet is pleased to announce that Beth Anderson will compose the music for the winning poem of the 2011 String Poet Prize.
Beth Anderson is a critically-acclaimed composer of new romantic, avante-garde music, text-sound works, and musical theater events. Born in Kentucky, she studied primarily in California with John Cage, Terry Riley, Robert Ashley, and Larry Austin at Mills College and U.C. Davis. She is a resident of New York City and a member of BMI, American Composers’ Forum, I.A.W.M., Poets and Writers, and New York Women Composers. Her early work was considered post-Cagian, non-academic, but more recently, the music became more lyrical while retaining the cut-up quality of the minimalists. She produces Women’s Work, a concert series of women composers each March.
String Poet is pleased to announce that Patricia Fargnoli, the New Hampshire Poet Laureate (December 2006 to March 2009) will be the final judge for the 2011 String Poet Prize. She will also be the featured poet at the String Poet Prize Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 27th at 7:00 pm as part of the Fourth Friday Studio Series at the Long Island Violin Shop in Huntington, New York. That same evening, String Poet will go live with the launch of its inaugural issue.
Patricia Fargnoli is the author of four books and two chapbooks of poetry, her newest book is Then, Something (Tupelo Press, fall 2009) which won the ForeWord Poetry Book of the Year Award Silver Award, the Shelia Mooton Book Award of the New England Poetry Club and an Honorable Mention in the Eric Hoffer Awards. Her fifth collection, Duties of the Spirit (Tupelo Press, 2005) won the New Hampshire Jane Kenyon Literary Book Award for an Outstanding Book of Poetry and was a semifinalist for the Glasgow Prize. Her first book, Necessary Light (Utah State University Press, 1999) was awarded the 1999 May Swenson Poetry Award.
“Pat”, a retired social worker, has been the recipient of a Macdowell Colony fellowship. She’s been on the residence faculty of The Frost Place Poetry Festival, and has taught privately, at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and in the Lifelong Learning program of Keene State College. She was the recipient of an honorary BFA from The NH Institute of Arts, has won the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award and 6 Pushcart nominations. Twice a semifinalist for the Discovery, The Nation Awards, she has published widely in literary journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, Green Mountain Review, Alaska Quarterly, Massachusetts Review. She currently resides in Walpole, NH.
The submission period for the 2011 String Poet Prize, sponsored by String Poet and the Long Island Violin Shop, is closed.
2011 String Poet Prize Guidelines
Up to 30 lines, all forms accepted. Contest theme: “The Seasons.” No previously published or contest-winning poems. First prize is $150. The winning poem will be performed at our awards ceremony on May 27 with original music composed by Beth Anderson, and published in our online journal. Fees: $10.00 for up to 3 poems, $15.00 for up to 5 poems. Final judge: Patricia Fargnoli.
Postal Mail: Post by March 30, 2011
Send your poem(s) and payment, postmarked on or before March 30, 2011 to:
String Poet Prize c/o Long Island Violin Shop
8 Elm Street
Huntington, NY 11743
Checks payable to “L.I.V.S.” drawn from a U.S. Bank. Author’s name and contact information typed on the BACK of each submitted page. Include a SASE or your email address if you would like to be notified of contest results, or subscribe to String Poet. Hardcopy entries cannot be returned, and will be recycled.
Online: Initiate payment and submit poems by 11:59 PM EDT on March 31, 2011
Payment: Use the shopping cart at the bottom of this page to send payment by PayPal. Make sure you choose the correct amount based on the number of poems you are submitting. If your PayPal email address does not match the email used to send your poems, please make note of that in your contest submission email.
Submissions:
Send a single e-mail with your poem(s) to contest@stringpoet.com. Poems may be included in-line as text within the email, or as attachments. Attachment formats accepted: Word (.doc), Rich Text (.rtf), or plain text (.txt). Include your name and contact information in the body of the email, or as a separate cover page within the attachment(s).