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Last day to Make Inn Reservations for Fall Rendezvous

8/24/2015

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Aug 24 is your last day to reserve your room for the Fall Rendezvous. Hurry hurry! Don't miss all the fun! Details here.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FRIDAY – OCTOBER 9th

4:00PM – 5:00PM REGISTRATION

5:00PM – 6:00PM DINNER

6:30PM WELCOME – Evan Walters 2ndVP

6:45PM WORKSHOP/PROGRAM – Michael Erdelen

10:30AM BREAK

11:00AM–11:45AM  PROGRAM/WORKSHOP – Joyce Brinkman

 “COLLABORATIVE POETRY”

“IMMORTALITY FOR POETS”

7:15PM BREAK

7:30PM–8:45PM CONTEST WINNERS READINGS

8:45PM BREAK

9:00PM-9:30PM        EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING

9:00PM - ?            COLLABORATIVE POEM & ROUND ROBIN READINGS




SATURDAY – OCTOBER 10th

8:00AM – 9:00AM BREAKFAST

9:15AM BUSINESS MEETING

Officer Reports (Secretary, Treasurer, Mannigham, Contest)

Committee Reports (By-law, Nominating, website, etc.)

NOON – 1:00PM LUNCH

1:00PM – 2:00PM GUEST SPEAKER – Barry Harris

2:00PM BREAK

2:15PM – 3:30PM CONTEST WINNERS READINGS

3:30PM – 5:00PM FREE TIME (Visit, Hike, Write a poem)

5:00PM – 6:00PM DINNER

6:30PM – 7:00PM PREMIER POET – Mary Couch

7:00PM BREAK

7:15PM FINAL CONTEST WINNERS

TBD ROUND ROBIN READINGS

SUNDAY – OCTOBER 11th

8:00AM BREAKFAST ON YOUR OWN

9:00AM TBD/PROGRAM ACTIVITY

Club Reports

Old Business

New Business

Nominations (President, 1st VP, 2ndVP)

Election/ Installation of President

Adjourn


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Still Time to Enter the Annual Contest!

8/20/2015

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There's still time to enter our Annual Contest! 27 categories, the cheapest entry fee you'll find anywhere, and your chance to have your poetry read at our Fall Rendezvous!

Our hardworking contest director, Caroline Dewey, reminds you that:

You have until (postmark) September 1st to get your poetry in - - in all one mailing.

Don't forget the $10 or $7 fee. 

You can also become a member! (Click here for membership info).


One of my favorite parts of the contest it is challenges me to try new poetic forms. Until last year I thought a Pantoum might be loosely related to a panda.

And an Elfchin! That one is fun to imagine.



You can look up all these fascinating forms on websites such as shadowpoetry.com.
























We also have a rule clarification about titles:


ALL poems must be titled except those whose form dictates no title is used, such as Haiku, Senryu, and Clerihew. For Elfchen, a title is optional. All others, unless particular form states so, are to have titles. We cannot foresee any and all the types of poems you may choose to enter, as several categories are "Any subject, and Any form," so it is up to you the contestant to become informed. A good source is shadowpoetry.com. 
Enter soon! Get those excellent poems in the mail!
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Meet our Fall Rendezvous Keynote Speaker and Program Presenter

8/14/2015

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Barry Harris is our Guest Keynote Speaker and Joyce Brinkman is a Program Presenter for the 2015 Fall Rendezvous. Register now!
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Barry Harris is editor of the Tipton Poetry Journal and has published one poetry collection, Something At The Center. Barry lives in Brownsburg, Indiana and is retired from Eli Lilly and Company. His poetry has appeared in Grey Sparrow, Silk Road Review, Saint Ann‘s Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Night Train, Silver Birch Press, Hiss Quarterly, Cherry Blossom Review, Flying Island, Lily, The Centrifugal Eye, Flutter, Wheelhouse Magazine, Houston Literary Review, Snow Monkey, Fissure, Awaken Consciousness, and Writers‘ Bloc. One of his poems is on display at the National Museum of Sport and another is painted on a barn in Boone County, Indiana as part of Brick Street Poetry‘s Word Hunger public art project. His poems are also included in these anthologies: From the Edge of the Prairie; Motif 3: All the Livelong Day; and Twin Muses: Art and Poetry.

 
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Joyce Brinkman served as Indiana's first poet laureate from 2002-2008. She has a BA from Hanover College. She began writing poetry at age nine and was first published in Hill Thoughts. Her book, Tiempo Español, was written in Spain where she studied with the University of New Orleans MFA program. Her poetry has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and on CDs, bookmarks and buses, as well as on a wall in the town square of Quezaltepeque, El Salvador.  Joyce is one of six poets who have poetry in 25 foot, stained glass windows at the Indianapolis International Airport. A group of those poets have produced on a book of travel metaphor, Rivers, Rails and Runways, and a book of postcard poems, Airmail from the Airpoets. She also collaborated with glass artist Arlon Bayliss on lighted glass art containing her poetry for the new Marion County Central Library addition.  She is a strong proponent of poetry as public art and enjoys working with both visual and other literary artists on projects. Joyce shares a house in Indianapolis, IN, with her husband and a sweet cat and seeks solitude for writing at a condo in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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