Sugar Creek call for poetry



Cradler No. 1



Call for Poetry Submissions: “Christmas at the Creek”




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Cradler No. 3



Brick Street Poetry Inc., publisher of the Tipton Poetry Journal, is issuing this call for a special winter issue of the journal to be themed “Christmas at the Creek.” Poets are invited to respond with art-inspired, previously unpublished poems to artwork at the Sugar Creek ART Center in Thorntown, Indiana, 127 South Pearl Street, Thorntown, Indiana 46071, 765-436-7102, (open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays).



Poets may visit Sugar Creek ART Center in person to view all the many items available for inspiration, or they may choose a piece of artwork from one of the six images by featured artist Cindy Cradler (shown throughout this post). Send poems to sugarcreek@brickstreetpoetry.org.



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 Please identify the artwork by name of the work and the artist with your entry if you have made your selection after a visit to the center, or by image number if you are choosing from this site. For this issue we will have a special category for poets 17 years and younger, and you must submit your age if you are you are submitting in this special category.



All poems must be received by November 2, 2012.



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 There will be a $100 editor’s choice award for the best poem in this edition and 12 poets will be chosen to participate in a reading of from the issue on December 14, at Sugar Creek ART Center.



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“Christmas at the Creek” is made possible in part by support from the Boone County Community Foundation and the Indiana Arts Commission. We thank them for their important contribution to this and other culturally enriching endeavors. Please visit www.brickstreetpoetry.org for further information about our programs.













Awakening

We interrupt this inactive blog to bring you a special announcement. Stay tuned for details about a Christmas-themed poetry call in collaboration with the Sugar Creek Art Center in Thontown ...