POETRY CONTEST RULES (because all good things come with rules, right?)
1. Participants must be K-12 students in school (public, private or home school) in the Oregon City Public Library Service Area. This includes any of the schools in the Oregon City School District or Oregon City;
2. Participants can enter on their own or have a parent or teacher make their entry.
3. All entries should be submitted through our online form. If this is not possible for some reason, please deliver/send your typed or legibly printed entry to: POETRY CONTEST, Oregon City Library, 606 John Adams, Oregon City 97045;
4. All entries must be the original work of the participant;
5. Maximum of three entries per participant;
6. Entries can be submitted in any language but must be accompanied with an English translation;
7. The topic of the poem must have something to do with trees or Arbor Day;
8. Please, no profanity, violence, drugs, etc.;
9. Poems should be limited to 40 lines of text (blank lines between stanzas are not counted);
10. Do not double space your entry.
Entries will be grouped by grade level, K-2, 3-5, 6-9, and 10-12, and prizes will be awarded for each of those groups. Winners will be invited to read their poems at the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the Carnegie Library on June 21st, 2013. In addition, winners will be invited to lunch with the Poet Laureate!
Entries will be accepted from April 1-30, 2013.
For more information on National Arbor Day and National Poetry Month, please see the links below:
http://www.arborday.org/arborday/arborDayDates.cfm
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41
Good luck all your rhyming and versing prodigies!
