Friday, October 1, 2010

Poetry City Marathon Anthology

Dave Morice has issued an invitation to be in the Poetry City Marathon Anthology. Dave says:
Iowa City has been designated a City of Literature by UNESCO. The University of Iowa Main Library has an exhibit of the literary life of the town. As part of the exhibit, I am writing The Poetry City Marathon, a 10,000-page poem. The poem is divided into 100 volumes of 100 pages each. The writing began on the 4th of July, and will end on Halloween.

I'm reserving Volume 98 for submissions. The only requests I have of people are to use Times New Roman and to email it in Word as a jpg file. Also, it would be preferable to use 14 point type. I want this marathon to really expand: "Poetry City has no limits." A person doesn't have to be from Iowa City. To each person who emails me poems for the marathon, I'll email them an electronic file of the volume their poem(s) appear in. That Volume is going to be called (at least for now) The Book of Everybody. So, the marathon is going to be 100 volumes plus as many more are needed.

Also it is important for everybody to know that the copyright stays with the authors. If previously published, I will acknowledge the place of publication.

The Poetry City Marathon is sponsored by Sackter House Media, a non-profit organization for people with disabilities. It is a part of the Extend the Dream Foundation.
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Update from Tabatha: Here's the Iowa City Poetry Marathon site and here's my poem for the anthology.

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4 comments:

Heidi Mordhorst said...

Well, I think I'll enjoy working on a poem called "poetry city". Caught up with the universal smiles, the tea and so on--always something to love here, Tabatha.

I was going to share another cuppa tea song with you but I can't get the link in...another time!

Author Amok said...

That sounds like a great project, Tabatha. What are you going to send?

Tabatha said...

Thank you, Heidi. :-) Looking forward to hearing your cuppa song. I don't know, Laura. I think I'll be like Heidi and write something specifically for it.

Dave Morice said...

Thank you for giving such a nice posting for this, Tabath. And thank you, Heidi and Author Amok, for your interest. Happy Poetry Friday! Dave M