PSI is a great organization for poets, providing opportunities and resources for connection, fellowship, and the sharing of our creative efforts with other poets.
Membership provides:
Membership provides:
- Membership card
- PSI's newsletter, delivered in hard copy or electronically
- Discounted entry fee for our Annual Contest
- 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
- Members may also receive help at a deeply-discounted cost in getting their poetry collection published as an ebook and softcover on Amazon for sale worldwide. We hope to also have readings/book signings throughout the year, COVID-19 restrictions permitting.
- Members may request to join our Closed Group Facebook page.
- Members may join in Members-Only events & opportunities, like our virtual First Tuesdays Monthly Meetings and Fourth Tuesdays Critique Night Monthly Meetings. These monthly members-only meetings are hosted in Zoom.
Poetry Society of Indiana's membership year is July 1st through June 30th.
You may join at any time, and do not have to be a member of a local club/society/group to join.
Yearly dues for individual members are $18.00. This automatically includes membership to the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS) Website: http://www.nfsps.com/
Members are eligible to participate in PSI and NFSPS member-only contests.
You may also register as a non-member associate (see info on the registration form) to be on our mailing list.
Please print, complete, and send in an individual membership form:
For Individuals
| PSI Membership Form (Fillable PDF) |
| PSI Membership Form (Word doc) |
We also offer affiliate membership for clubs. What's an affiliate club? So glad you asked!
An affiliate club receives a newsletter to share with its members the following:
Reports from the affiliate club sharing the happenings of their club from who was published, who won a contest, if they have a contest, if they are hosting an event, when they meet and what they might be doing to promote poetry in their county/area (holding a youth contest within a school, working with a poetry project in a school or in their community).
What is the purpose of an affiliate club?
An affiliate club is to follow the purpose of PSI and mission to unite Poetry clubs and Poets; to encourage poets to write, study and appreciate poetry; to educate and assist with keeping poetry alive.
An affiliate club supports PSI by encouraging their members to become individual members. As individual members they receive their own copy of the newsletter, can enter the Members Only Contest, can enter the PSI Annual Poetry Contest at a discount, they become members of NSFPS and can enter into the NSFPS member contests and other State poetry contests.
An affiliate club encourages its members to keep poetry alive by: entering PSI's Annual Poetry Contest whether they are individual members of PSI or not; to support poetry education by volunteering in poetry events, hosting events, speaking to the youth, etc.
Dues for affiliate clubs are $5.
Reports from the affiliate club sharing the happenings of their club from who was published, who won a contest, if they have a contest, if they are hosting an event, when they meet and what they might be doing to promote poetry in their county/area (holding a youth contest within a school, working with a poetry project in a school or in their community).
What is the purpose of an affiliate club?
An affiliate club is to follow the purpose of PSI and mission to unite Poetry clubs and Poets; to encourage poets to write, study and appreciate poetry; to educate and assist with keeping poetry alive.
An affiliate club supports PSI by encouraging their members to become individual members. As individual members they receive their own copy of the newsletter, can enter the Members Only Contest, can enter the PSI Annual Poetry Contest at a discount, they become members of NSFPS and can enter into the NSFPS member contests and other State poetry contests.
An affiliate club encourages its members to keep poetry alive by: entering PSI's Annual Poetry Contest whether they are individual members of PSI or not; to support poetry education by volunteering in poetry events, hosting events, speaking to the youth, etc.
Dues for affiliate clubs are $5.
Print & Complete an Affiliate Club Membership form:
| psi_club_membership_form.pdf |
Payments can be made through check or Paypal. Instructions on 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
