Poets and poetry lovers now is the time to submit your original
poems to the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Project for the next “Poetry
While You Wait” poetry booklet. Submission is free and open to all
residents, adults and children, of El Paso and Teller counties.
This year, poems will be considered in English and foreign
languages. If you wish to submit your poems in a foreign language,
include your original foreign language poem and its English
translation. All forms (free verse, blank verse, etc.) will be
considered for publication and you may submit up to five poems
total, 30 lines or shorter, and suitable for public consumption, in
the body of one e-mail, not as an attachment, to
poet@pikespeakpoetlaureate.org.
If you would rather mail them in, please send them to: Jim
Ciletti, Poet Laureate, 1215 N. Union, Colorado Springs, 80909.
Deadline is Dec. 1, 2011. Please include your postal and email
address, your phone number and a one-line bio with your submission.
“Poetry While You Wait” will be published in the spring and
distributed to waiting rooms, like your doctor’s or dentist’s
office, tire stores, auto repair shops, beauty salons, barber
shops, etc. — wherever there is a waiting area.
Contact: Jim Ciletti at 634-2367 for more information.