New England Poet-of-the-Year Award
NEATE’s Poet-of-the-Year Competition is open to all teachers of English/language arts who are members of NEATE or one of its state affiliates.  Only former Poets-of-the-Year are not eligible.  Finalists will be chosen by a panel of judges and will be invited to read their poetry at a reception in their honor at the annual NEATE Fall Conference in October 2010 when the Poet-of-the-Year will be announced.  Poems of the finalists will be published and distributed at the reception.

Guidelines

  1. Poets should submit five pages of unpublished, original poems. Poems may be more than one page.
  2. All poems must be submitted in English.
  3. Each poem must be typed or word-processed; please send 3 hard copies (address below) IN ADDITION to an electronic version of each poem to: Courtney.M.Delgiudice@uscga.edu
  4. Submit copies of poems (from step 3): one with your name and address and three without either.
  5. Poems will not be returned; poets should retain copies of their work.
  6. All entries must be postmarked no later than July 23, 2010.
  7. Send a 1-2 paragraph biography of yourself.
  8. Poems must be accompanied by an entry form (see links below) and your bio and sent to the following address:

Professor Karen Wink
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Dept. of Humanities
15 Mohegan Ave.
New London, CT 06320

Questions? Call Courtney DelGiudice: (860) 701-6549
(Assistant to Prof. Karen Wink)

NEATE Poet-of-the-Year Entry Form (MS Word)
NEATE Poet-of-the-Year Entry Form (pdf)
(If you don't have the Acrobat Reader, it's free to download and works on both the Mac and Windows platforms).
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