PSI is a great organization for poets, providing opportunities and resources for connection, fellowship, and the sharing of our creative efforts.
You may join PSI at any time!
Yearly dues for individual members are $18.00, and automatically includes membership to the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS). Members are eligible to participate in PSI and NFSPS member-only contests, as well as other benefits described below.
When you join, your $18 annual dues pays for one year of membership, which you may then renew each year by the end of the same month that you joined (ie, if you join in June, your membership may be maintained after that by paying annual dues again by June 30 each year). PSI will send you reminders each year when your annual renewal is coming due.
TO JOIN: Send us your intial $18 annual dues and a completed copy of the New Member Form. For your convenience, the form is available as both a fillable PDF and a Word document. All options for dues payment and form submission are stated on the form.
You don't have to be a member of an Indiana local club/society/group
to join Poetry Society of Indiana.
to join Poetry Society of Indiana.
Note to current members renewing in 2022: You should have received a special form which includes a one-time option to select a specific month in 2023 (and each year thereafter) in which your annual dues payment will again come due. If you have not received this form or would like us to resend it, please email us at poetrysocietyofindiana@gmail.com.
New Member Form for Individuals
| New Member Form (Fillable PDF) |
| New Member Form (Word) |
Membership provides:
- Membership card
- PSI's newsletter, delivered electronically
- Discounted entry fee for our 25+ categories (with $ prizes) PSI Annual Poetry Contest
- Discounted registration fee for our annual Spring Fling and Fall Rendezvous gatherings
- Automatic membership to NFSPS (National Federation of State Poetry Societies)
- Discounted entry fees and access to additional poetry contest categories in NFSPS contests
- NFSPS's newsletter, delivered in hard copy or electronically
- Help with promoting and/or co-hosting members' readings/book signings of their own publications, COVID-19 restrictions permitting
- Members may join our Closed Group Facebook page.
- Members may participate in various PSI Members-Only events & opportunities, like our virtual First Tuesdays Membership Meetings and upcoming Critique Night Monthly Meetings. These monthly members-only meetings are currently hosted in Zoom.
PSI is what YOU make it!
Any PSI Member in good standing can volunteer for Board Officer, Appointed positions, Committee Chairs, and/or Committee work. In addition to their elected positions, our current Board officers are acting as other Chairs, so if you are a PSI Member and are interested in helping out behind the scenes, please contact us at poetrysocietyofindiana@gmail.com.
Chairs and Committees have been part of PSI's success for over 80 years. Now we're in the digital age, and PSI continues to encourage poets and support poetry writing in innovative and exciting ways. A lot of communication and outreach is faster and easier than in the past. Events, contests, workshops, writing sessions and more can be both in-person and digital. So much can be planned, promoted, executed, and shared across platforms like our website, Zoom, social media, and in other ways.
Many hands make light work!
PSI's Board Officer and Appointed positions are listed below.
Board Officers:
Any PSI Member in good standing can volunteer for Board Officer, Appointed positions, Committee Chairs, and/or Committee work. In addition to their elected positions, our current Board officers are acting as other Chairs, so if you are a PSI Member and are interested in helping out behind the scenes, please contact us at poetrysocietyofindiana@gmail.com.
Chairs and Committees have been part of PSI's success for over 80 years. Now we're in the digital age, and PSI continues to encourage poets and support poetry writing in innovative and exciting ways. A lot of communication and outreach is faster and easier than in the past. Events, contests, workshops, writing sessions and more can be both in-person and digital. So much can be planned, promoted, executed, and shared across platforms like our website, Zoom, social media, and in other ways.
Many hands make light work!
PSI's Board Officer and Appointed positions are listed below.
Board Officers:
- President
- 1st Vice President
- 2nd Vice President
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Membership Chair
- Events & Opportunities Chair
- annual Spring Fling Convention Chair
- annual Fall Rendezvous Convention Chair
- Website & Technology Chair
- PSI Annual Poetry Contest Chair
- Manningham Trust Student Poetry Contest Chair
- Nominating Committee Chair
- Development & Fundraising Chair
- Society Historian
- Public Relations/Promotions Chair
- Social Media Chair
- Youth Outreach Chair
We also offer affiliate membership for Local Poetry Groups.
Dues for affiliate Local Poetry Groups are currently $5, paid annually. Any organized poetry group in Indiana may become an affiliate Local Poetry Group upon payment of dues. The Local Poetry Group may submit a report to the President for each issue of the newsletter. Local Poetry Groups may either send a representative to report on their activities to both the Spring Fling and the Fall Rendezvous, or submit a written report to the Secretary. PSI will promote their meeting times & location, contact info, website, and activities on the PSI website if submitted to the Website Coordinator.
An affiliate group follows the PSI mission to unite Poetry groups and Poets; to encourage poets to write, study, and appreciate poetry; to educate and assist with keeping poetry alive.
An affiliate group supports PSI by encouraging their members to become individual PSI members. As individual PSI members they receive
An affiliate group encourages its members to keep poetry alive by:
An affiliate group follows the PSI mission to unite Poetry groups and Poets; to encourage poets to write, study, and appreciate poetry; to educate and assist with keeping poetry alive.
An affiliate group supports PSI by encouraging their members to become individual PSI members. As individual PSI members they receive
- direct emailed communications from PSI about events, meetings, and opportunities,
- can enter the Members Only Spring Fling Poetry Contest,
- can enter the PSI Annual Poetry Contest at a discount,
- become members of NSFPS and can enter into the NSFPS member contests and other State poetry contests.
An affiliate group encourages its members to keep poetry alive by:
- entering PSI's Annual Poetry Contest (whether they are individual members of PSI or not);
- supporting poetry education by volunteering in poetry events, hosting events, speaking to the youth, etc.
Print & Complete an Affiliate Local Poetry Group Membership form:
| PSI Affiliate Group Membership Registration Form |
Mail form to:
Chuck Kellum
PSI Treasurer
1430 N. 200 E.
Anderson, IN 46012
Chuck Kellum
PSI Treasurer
1430 N. 200 E.
Anderson, IN 46012