Poems For Nuclear Peace

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Splabman

I got this note via email this past week and thought you might be interested:

Hello,Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

My name is Kate Mazzera and I work for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, a nonprofit committed to a world free of nuclear weapons.

We are interested in promoting our “Barbara Mandingo Kelly Annual Peace Poetry Awards” in your magazine and/or website. The contest is currently taking entries, with a deadline of July 1, 2015. It is open to people of all ages worldwide.

Awards:

Adults – $1,000

Youth (13 to 18) – $200

Children (12 and under) – $200

Procedures:

1. Send 2 copies of up to 3 typed unpublished poems. Maximum of 30 lines per poem.

2. Include name, address, email, telephone number, and age (if youth or child) in upper right hand corner of one copy of each poem.

3. Title each poem.

4. Do not staple individual poems together.

5. Please keep copies of all entries as we will be unable to return them.

(Any entry that does not adhere to ALL of the contest rules will not be considered for a prize)

Fee: $15 for up to three poems for Adult entires. No fee for Youth or Children’s entries.

Judging: Judging done by a committee of poets selected by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Send Entries to: 

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Barbara Mandingo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards

PMB 121, 1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 1

Santa Barbara, CA 93108-2794

Winners: 

Winners and Honorable Mentions will be announced by October 1, 2015 on the Foundation’s website. Winners will be notified by mail.

For more information, rules, and procedures visit: www.peacecontests.org

If you have any questions or have further details on how we should proceed, please email me at kmazzera@wagingpeace.org

Thank you,

Kate Mazzera

NAPF

About Splabman

Poet & interviewer Paul E Nelson founded SPLAB (Seattle Poetics LAB) & the Cascadia Poetry Festival. Since 1993, SPLAB has produced hundreds of poetry events & 600 hours of interview programming with legendary poets & whole systems activists including Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Joanne Kyger, Robin Blaser, Diane di Prima, Daphne Marlatt, Nate Mackey, George Bowering, Barry McKinnon, José Kozer, Brenda Hillman & many others. Paul’s books include American Prophets (interviews 1994-2012) (2018) American Sentences (2015) A Time Before Slaughter (2009) and Organic in Cascadia: A Sequence of Energies (2013). Co-Editor of Make It True: Poetry From Cascadia (2015), 56 Days of August: Poetry Postcards (2017) and Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill (2019) Make it True meets Medusario (2019), he’s presented poetry/poetics in London, Brussels, Nanaimo, Qinghai & Beijing, China, has had work translated into Spanish, Chinese & Portuguese & writes an American Sentence every day. Awarded a residency at The Lake, from the Morris Graves Foundation in Loleta, CA, he’s published work in Golden Handcuffs Review, Zen Monster, Hambone, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2014 Robin Blaser Award from The Capilano Review, he is engaged in a 20 year bioregional cultural investigation of Cascadia and lives in Rainier Beach, in the Cascadia bioregion’s Cedar River watershed.
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