Ekphrastic Prompt For September 2021

We will accept poems on any of Hopper's paintings that are in the public domain.

Each submission must have; SUBMISSION/September 2021 Ekphrastic Prompt in the subject line.
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Word Prompt for September 2021:

Write a poem using at least 21 of the words on the list.  You may use a variation of the word and /or change it’s tense.


And
Border
Call
Dozen
Ended
Free
Ground
Here
Inside 
King
Low
Meadow
Near
Open
Proud
Quest
Rose
Speckled
Tree
Upon
Very
Water
Xi
Yonder
Zip

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We are accepting a form of poetry we have not yet seen in our submissions:
The Huitan.

A Huitan is a French form requiring 

• a rhyme-scheme of A, B, A, B, / B, C, B, C), 
• an eight-syllable line
• written in two quatrains or in one octave. 

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Each submission must have; SUBMISSION/September 2021 Word Prompt in the subject line.

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GUIDELINES:

Please send us new poetry which responds expressly to the photograph.
Please type your name under the title.
Please send poems in the body of an email; no attachments.
Please type poems flush left to the margin, avoid complicated indentions.

Send submissions to Sharmagne Leland-St. John
  

or to Michael Escoubas.



SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 20th, 2021

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