There will also be numerous other prizes including 5 Second Prizes and 10 Third Prizes, plus hundreds of regional winners. Entries will be judged on creativity, originality, imagery, and artistic quality. Form and rhyme are not required or encouraged, unless able to do so artistically. All winning poems will be published in an upcoming anthology, which will be copyrighted by the Live Poets Society. The Live Poets Society retains no rights to your poetry.
All rights remain with the poet at all times.
Type your one poem entry on 8.5 X 11 inch paper. Include you name, full mailing address, graduating year, and name of school in the top right hand corner of the page. Please, make sure you use thirty four cent stamps on both envelopes, Again, all items with insufficient postage will be returned to the sender. If you take your entry to the post office before the close of business on or before the deadline date, it should be postmarked on that day. Ask the Postal Clerk if you have any question as to what the postmarked date would be.