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The Sylvan Spring/Summer 2017 President’s Message We did it ~ Prize Poems were read! Thank you all who attended the annual Spring PPS Inc. conference at the beautiful Cornwall Manor to read your “Prize Poems.” I was astounded, yet not really surprised, that our own home town girl, Constance Trump, won awards in 8 of our contest categories. We had so many fine poets reading and performing their awarded poems. There was a 5 star luncheon everyone enjoyed that lingered with many of us sharing information at our tables. Our workshop leader, Dana Sauers, challenged us and invited us to share our incomplete or finished works, which is wonderful to brainstorm together to get the creative juices flowing. The National Federation of State Poetry Society Inc. will have our conference June 29th- July 2. It will be hosted by The Poetry Society of Texas at the Historic Hilton in downtown Fort Worth Texas. The theme will be “the art and soul of poetry” Interested poets can go to the NFSPS website which is: www.nfsps.com. A shout out to our newest member, Mark Greathouse, who’s originally from Texas. The “Catoctin Voices” hosts a featured poet monthly at the Historic Creeger House in Thurmont. The May poet du jour was author/poet Marian Dornell, who read from her book Unicorn in Captivity, which can be found on her Facebook page. Speaking of Facebook, we now have our own Pennsylvania Poetry Society PPS Inc. page, so please like our page and see what’s happening around PA. You will see poems performed in videos from our spring conference, along with pertinent information and some lighthearted poetic cartoons. We also are now on Twitter, so stay tuned as we head into the future with our up-to-the-minute characters. Thank you Ann Gasser for all the work you have done as editor of our Sylvan newsletter. Another thank you goes out to Kate Walker, our new editor. Lastly, please keep writing as the summer progresses. Our New Year begins in September when our dues are due. Sincerely, Sandra L. Polvinale, President PPS Inc. Volume 67, Issue 3 In This Issue President’s Message Staff/Contacts Challenge Pages PPS social media Pictures from Spring Meeting Contests to Enter THE SYLVAN Volume 67, Issue 3 | Newsletter of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, Inc.
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The Sylvan Spring/Summer 2017
President’s Message We did it ~ Prize Poems were read!
Thank you all who attended the annual Spring PPS Inc. conference at the beautiful Cornwall Manor to read your “Prize Poems.”
I was astounded, yet not really surprised, that our own home town girl, Constance Trump, won awards in 8 of our contest categories. We had so many fine poets reading and performing their awarded poems. There was a 5 star luncheon everyone enjoyed that lingered with many of us sharing information at our tables.
Our workshop leader, Dana Sauers, challenged us and invited us to share our incomplete or finished works, which is wonderful to brainstorm together to get the creative juices flowing.
The National Federation of State Poetry Society Inc. will have our conference June 29th- July 2. It will be hosted by The Poetry Society of Texas at the Historic Hilton in downtown Fort Worth Texas. The theme will be “the art and soul of poetry” Interested poets can go to the NFSPS website which is: www.nfsps.com. A shout out to our newest member, Mark Greathouse, who’s originally from Texas.
The “Catoctin Voices” hosts a featured poet monthly at the Historic Creeger House in Thurmont. The May poet du jour was author/poet Marian Dornell, who read from her book Unicorn in Captivity, which can be found on her Facebook page. Speaking of Facebook, we now have our own Pennsylvania Poetry Society PPS Inc. page, so please like our page and see what’s happening around PA. You will see poems performed in videos from our spring conference, along with pertinent information and some lighthearted poetic cartoons.
We also are now on Twitter, so stay tuned as we head into the future with our up-to-the-minute characters.
Thank you Ann Gasser for all the work you have done as editor of our Sylvan newsletter. Another thank you goes out to Kate Walker, our new editor. Lastly, please keep writing as the summer progresses. Our New Year begins in September when our dues are due.
Sincerely, Sandra L. Polvinale, President PPS Inc.
Volume 67, Issue 3
In This Issue
President’s Message
Staff/Contacts
Challenge Pages
PPS social media
Pictures from Spring Meeting
Contests to Enter
THE SYLVANVolume 67, Issue 3 | Newsletter of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, Inc.
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PPS STAFF
President – Sandra Polvinale
Immediate Past President - MarilynDowning
Vice President –Steven Concert
Recording Secretary - Ann Copeland
Treasurer - Wendy Bream
Corresponding Secretary - Ann Gasser
Historian - post unfilled
Membership Committee (to 2017) Nancy Kline - Chair
Prize Poems Book - To Be Named
PPS Contest Vicky Fake-Weldon - Chair Assistant - To Be Named Recipient - To Be Named
Endowments & Audit - Trustees: to 2020 Susan Vernon to 2022 Vicki Fake-Weldon to 2022 Nancy Henry Kline
Sylvan Editor - Kate Walker
Mailing - Kate Walker
Social Media - Kate Walker
PPS Webmaster - Billy Pennington
ADDRESSES FOR PPS, Inc. CONTACTS
PPS Matters— Sandra Polvinale, President. Tel. 443-414-5427 P.O. Box 354, Fairfield, PA 17320-9218 E-mail: [email protected]
Dues, etc. —Wendy Bream, Acting Treasurer. Tel. 717-226-1997 114 South Bedford Street, Carlisle, PA 17013 E-mail: [email protected]
Annual Contest —Vicky Fake-Weldon, Contest Chair. Tel. 717-737-5342 108 N. 26th Street, Camp Hill, PA 17011 E-mail: [email protected]
General Correspondence —Ann Gasser, Corres.Sec. Tel. 610-374-5848 801 Spruce Street, West Reading, PA 19611-1448E-mail: [email protected]
Newsletter—Kate Walker194 Old Fort Road, Spring Mills, PA 16875email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Looking for contests to enter? Check out the Poets & Writers website, where they have a continuously updated list of writing contests, awards, and grants. Searchable by
subject and deadline: https://www.pw.org/grants
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LIFE WAS GOOD
--by Charles K. Firmage
Life ain’t what it used to be on Route Sixty-Six.Drive-in movies, drinkin’ Cokes,my old pickup truck.Thumbing through Oklahoma,rooms for a dollar. Fishing with a bamboo pole,soup can full of worms.
Current Challenge: The IMAGOMadelyn Eastlund suggested this form as a challenge. It is a syllabic form of 8 unrhymed lines using an alternating syllable count per line of : 7, 5, 7, 5, 7, 5, 7, 5 She says it is not a new form, but one that is unfamiliar to many of today’s poets and she found it over 30 years ago.
CHOOSING THE WAY
--by Maureen Applegate
The choices put before usset a given path.Our feet will follow aftereven through the briar.To some, the Destination makes a simple choice,but oh, the Journey offerslife unparalleled.
HAVING TRIED
--by Emiliano Martin
Looking for a special verseI count syllablesalways understanding thatthe next line can bethe one I can use tonight.I’m not making senseso I have to end it here after having tried.
SWEET SORROW
--by Jeani Picklesimer
I hug my precious mother,Her calm breathing fades,To her I sing of angels,And I stroke her brow…Her eyes and mine are locking,While her soul departs—Her smile is reassuring, As she tastes of death.
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EARTH DAY MESSAGE FROM WOODSEY OWL
--by Mark Hudson
Give a hoot! Don't you pollute!Woodsey Owl sees you!Help keep America good!Remember the Earth!Let TV show icons speak! It's Earth Day, you know!Let the children be leaders!We all get to win!
SECOND THOUGHTS
--by Prabha Nayak Prabhu
Each time my good intentionsbomb, I ask myselfif it’s worth my while to aida person in need.I then recall the kind soul,a total stranger,who risked her life to save mine.I decide to help.
CHALLENGE PAGE 2
For our next Challenge: Write an Ode, which celebrates and elevates something. (For an example, consider “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” by John Keats or “Perhaps the World Ends Here.” by Joy Harjo.) Consider for this challenge something people might not normally think to appreciate. Your ode should be 16 lines or fewer.
Deadline: August 15, 2017email [email protected]
or snail mail:
Kate Walker194 Old Fort Road Spring Mills, PA 16875
TROPHY HUNTER
--by Marilyn Downing
How does an eagle see fromsuch heights in the skya morsel for the hatchingsor his nesting mate?I watch him soar air currentsthen swiftly plummet, grasping a shimmering fishample to feed all.
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PPS is now on social media! Follow us for more photos and videos: twitter @papoetry (https://twitter.com/PApoetry)
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/PApoetryPPS/)
Below:
We are tired after a long yet enjoyable day of sharing prized poems from the PPS 2017 contest. The meals were out of this world ~ the companionship inspiring ~ the poems much appreciated for the work gone into them. What a great year we have had with such talent!
Vice president Steven Concert, President Sandi L Polvinale pose for a picture after the PPS Board meeting ~ a day to remember and reflect upon.
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T H E S Y L V A N S P R I N G - S U M M E R 2 0 1 6
9. BASHÕ BASHSUBJECT: Poet's ChoiceFORM; Haiku (does not have to adhere to 5-7-5 syllabic formPRIZES: $20 $15 $10SPONSOR: Christina Laurie
10. HOLDEN KENNEALLY AWARDSUBJECT: GrandparentsFORM: Meter and RhymeLINE LIMIT: 24 LinesPRIZES: $20 $10 $5SPONSOR: Alan Friot
11. L. JOSEPHINE AWARDSUBJECT: TeachersFORM; Meter and RhymeLINE LIMIT: 40 LinesPRIZES: $20 $10 $5SPONSOR:Alan Friot
12. EVERETT BREGOLI MEMORIAL AWARDSUBJECT: MusicFORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 40 LinesPRIZES: $20 $10 $5SPONSOR: Caroline Walton
13. CELEBRATION OF LIFESUBJECT: ContentmentFORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 30 LinesPRIZES: $15 $10 $5SPONSOR: Beverley Barnes
14. JAMES L. BARNES MEMORIAL AWARDSUBJECT: PatienceFORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 30 LinesPRIZES : $15 $10 $5SPONSOR: Beverley Barnes
15. NATALIE NORTH MEMORIAL AWARDSUBJECT: Poet's ChoiceFORM: Poet's Choice:LINE LIMIT: 40 LinesPRIZES: $15 $10 $5SPONSOR: Frederick Hinchliffe II
16. ROBERT & FRANCES SPAITH MEMORIAL AWARDSUBJECT: PetsFORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT; 40 LinesPRIZES: $15 $10 $5SPONSOR: Rose Ann Spaith
MASSACHUSETTSPOETRY SOCIETY 2017NATIONAL POETRY DAY CONTEST
1. LOUISE BOGAN CONTESTSUBJECT: Grandma FORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT;40 LinesPRIZES: $50 $30 $20SPONSOR: MaryEllen Letarte
2. AMY L. DENGLER MEMORIAL Awd.SUBJECT: An international ExperienceFORM :Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 15 LinesPRIZES; $50 $20 $10 Sponsor; Amy L. Dengler Fund
3. MARY WINKLEBLECK MEMORIAL AWARDSUBJECT: Poet;s ChoiceFORM; Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 36 LinesPRIZES: $35 $20 $15SPONSOR; Barbara Blanks
4. JEAN TUPPER AWARDSUBJECT: Writer’s BlockFORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 32 LinesPRIZES: $25 $20 $15SPONSOR: JeanTupper
5. ENTERTAIN ME AWARDSUBJECT: Something EntertainingFORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 40 LinesPRIZES: $30 $20 $10SPONSOR: Ingrid Wheeler
6. LULA MAE AWARDSUBJECT: Poet's ChoiceFORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 40 LinesPRIZES: $30 $20 $10SPONSOR: Taney Brazeal
7. ALLEN SWARTZ AWARDSUBJECT: Poet's ChoiceFORM: Petrarchan Sonnet using any traditionally acceptable rhyme schemeLINE LIMIT: 14 LinesPRIZES; $25 $15 $10SPONSOR: Allen Swartz
8 ROUND ROBIN AWARD.SUBJECT: Poet's ChoiceFORM; Poet’s ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 28 LinesPRIZES: $25 $15 $10
FOR THOSE WHO LOVE CONTESTS
17.SOLIE & ANDY'S MEMORIAL AWARDSUBJECT: FriendshipFORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT; 30 LinesPRIZES: $15 $10 $5SPONSOR: Olga Blaus
18. RUTH L. D’AVETA MEMORIAL AWARDSUBJECT: PuffinsFORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 40 LinesPRIZES: $15 $10 $5SPONSOR: Renee Pike
19. THOMAS SCOTT, SR. MEMORIAL AWARDSUBJECT: MountainsFORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 40 LinesPRIZES: $15 $10 $5SPONSOR: Elayne M. Neal
20. JAMES FEDERICO MEMORIAL AWARDSUBJECT: RescuersFORM: Poet’s ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 40 linesPRIZES: $15 $10 $5SPONSOR: Gail Devine Mower
21: ROSE (BABE) GIANGREGORIO MEMORIAL AWARDSUBJECT: Poet's ChoiceFORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 24 LinesPRIZES: $15 $10 $5SPONSOR: Waterfront CREW Poets
22. SANDSTAR AWARDSUBJECT: Special People—not Celebs.FORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 40 LinesPRIZES: $15 $10 $5SPONSOR: P.J. Roberts Mrmorial Fund
23. G. L. CARR AWARDSUBJECT: The ScholarFORM: Poet's ChoiceLINE LIMIT: 15 LinesPRIZES: $15 $10 $5SPONSOR: Gwendolyn Carr
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Poetry Popularity Surges with TeenagersKate Walker
An exciting phenomena occurred this year at the high school where I teach. Students have been reading poetry and recommending poems to each other. The surge in poetry’s popularity may have something to do with the increasing accessibility of poetry online via youtube, twitter, facebook, or other social media. Whether they are politically active, interested in social justice, or just love the genre, more students have arrived in class excited and passionate about poetry. If you’re wondering what poets & poetry teenagers share, some of the most popular include: Rupi Kaur’s entire collection Mike and Honey, Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones,” which went viral last summer, Neil Holborn (a popular poet on Youtube with his poem “OCD”) and Lang Leav, whose poem “Patience” students love. New poets are not the only favorites, as many of my students profess a strong admiration for William Carlos Williams, Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, and even Edgar Allen Poe.
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