Free contest offers prize to last poet standing

Poetryfest sponsors a free poetry contest. There are 100 prizes in all, and the $1,000 grand prize goes to the last poet standing.

Poems of 21 lines or less on any subject and in any style will be judged by the Contest Director Betty Cummins Starr-Joyal.

“We are a nonprofit group of friendly poets who love awarding cash prizes to deserving poets,” she said. “We love to read and discuss new poems and trust this contest will produce exciting discoveries.”

Send one poem to: Free Poetry Contest, P.O. Box 3336, Central Point, OR 97502, or enter at www.

friendlypoets.com. Deadline is March 31.

Include your name and address on the same page as your poem. All entrants will be sent a winner’s list.

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