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Competition Guidelines
List of Quarter-Finalist Poems The 2002 finalist poems, with a top prize of $1000, will be blind-selected by Alfred Corn (The Poem's Heartbeat) based on the LyR criteria of reach, craft, content and musicality, to be heard at Carnegie. Semifinalist poems will be selected on Saturday, March 23, 4-7 p.m., in an anonymous public reading before a blind jury panel at Poets House, 72 Spring Street ($7). Candidate poems from distant sources will be proxy-read. Selection procedures are designed to favor poem over poet, while permitting unrestricted entry by anyone except producers and judges. Send unsigned submissions, postmarked by March 15, to p h i l o p h o n e m a ™, Lyric Recovery Festival™ 2002, at Box 1141, Cathedral Sta. NY 10025, enclosing $5 payable to p h i l o p h o n e m a ™ for one, $10 for three poems, together with a cover sheet indicating name, address, phone, poem titles, and bio. Maximum length is 4 minutes performance time per poem (approx. 800 words). Unpublished work is preferred, but published work is eligible. Indicate first publication on the cover sheet only. Ensure that your work gets a leisurely read by submitting early.See the March 2001 Poetry Feature on Big City Lit™ for last session's finalist and semifinalist poems or the LyR 2000 website (geocities.com/LyricRecovery) for background and program information. The LyR Carnegie 2000 event sold out. We look forward to a full house and a deluge of great writing in 2002. ~ . ~ . ~QUARTER-FINALIST POEMS, Lyric Recovery Festival 2002 The authors of these works (or their proxy-readers by prior arrangement) should appear at Poets House, 72 Spring Street, on Saturday, March 23 for the Semifinal Round beginning at 4 p.m. Admission is $7 at the door. Send proxy-reader notifications, substantive and procedural inquiries to philophonema@aol.com or call (212) 864-2823. General space-related inquiries go to jane@poets.org. Another Morning Arachne Unstrung Archaeopteryx August to Autumn Bankrupt Farms Beginnings Beth David Bird in Tree Bloom Carnet de Bal: A Perfume by Revillion Discontinued Cuccina Cuckoo Spit Dutch Interior: The Artist and His Model Dutch Interior: The Letter Reader Exactitude First Birds forget not me Hara Kiri Hymn to Uncertainty In Lebanon: a Thimble of Poem In Simultaneous Rooms Interior Landscape with Frog Khyamm's Q&A (ghazal) Lentils Living in the Falling Apart Machine Dance Marriage Memphis Blues Moon in Water Moth Myth Of Seven Days Mythology, this is the Sixth On the Road to Rose Blanche [Author: Contact producers asap!] Ortolans Outposts Paying the Rent Playing God Rhomboid Saeta Sarabande for City Streets Searching Tucson for Words to Say Goodbye Self-Portrait as Interstate 10 Skirted Mirrors Song of Hunger The Anchorite The Decline of the Great Powers The Harvesters This Season of Moths Tightrope Act To Open the Open Gate Towards Elegy Zero Hour END -- END -- END SEMI-FINALIST POEMS, Lyric Recovery Festival 2002 Below are the twenty poems selected at the public reading held at Poets House, 72 Spring St., Manhattan, on March 23. The judges were sequestered with an audio feed and anonymous, numbered copies of the poems. The panel was composed of Ron Price, Johanna Keller, and Evert Eden. Panel assistants were Maggie Balistreri and Gretl Claggett. These twenty poems are being reviewed in anonymous form by Alfred Corn. Finalist poems selected by Mr. Corn should be posted by late Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning. Follow-up inquiries should be sent to philophonema@aol.com Congratulations go to all quarter-finalist participants. Special thanks go to the panel and to Poets House, whose 40,000-volume library, made available under a special rental agreement, provided a perfect venue. The library is essential to the mission which Poets House performs, but the facility provides a wealth of other resources too, including a gallery of manuscript and related exhibits, its own readings, workshops, prepares a directory and hosts an annual showcase of poetry books published in the preceding year. This year's showcase takes place on April 6. See poetshouse.org for details. Arachne Unstrung Archaeopteryx Bankrupt Farms Bird in Tree Cuccina Dutch Interior: The Artist and His Model Dutch Interior: The Letter Reader Exactitude Interior Landscape with Frog Khyamm's Q&A (ghazal) Lentils Machine Dance Moon in Water Moth Myth On the Road to Rose Blanche Playing God Rhomboid The Harvesters To Open the Open Gate Zero Hour END -- END -- END FINALIST POEMS, Lyric Recovery Festival 2002 Arachne Unstrung Archaeopteryx Cuccina Dutch Interior: The Artist and His Model Exactitude Interior Landscape with Frog Khyamm's Q&A (ghazal) Lentils Moon in Water Rhomboid Zero Hour END -- END -- END |