Poetry Contest

Judging has begun! Watch this space for an announcement of the winner. 

The winning poem will be published in the Little Patuxent Review, dramatically enlarged and illustrated for display during National Poetry Month in a Central Library show window, and featured in a reading at the CityLit Festival.

 Contest Rules

• Entrants must be Maryland residents, 18 or older.
• Paid or volunteer staff of the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Little Patuxent Review and their immediate families are not eligible.
• Please send only one original, unpublished (in print or on the Web) poem for consideration. Your entry cannot be currently under review for possible publication.
• Entry must be under 100 lines.
• Depending on its length, the winning poem may have to be excerpted for display in Pratt Central Library window.
• Submit your typed entry as a Microsoft Word attachment by email to contest@prattlibrary.org or by mail to:
  Poetry Contest, Periodicals Department, Pratt Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore MD 21201.
• Entries received after 5:00 pm on February 21, 2012, will be disqualified.
• Name, address, phone number, and the submitted poem’s title must accompany the entry on a separate page.
• Judges reserve the right to disqualify a poem because its content is not appropriate for public window display.