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WIN!
Poetry Contests
With the Patterns and Forms to Get
You There
By Esther M. Leiper
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part One
Introduction (Click here for Robert Shelford's
Introduction to WIN!)
The Beginning Place
Aiming for the Winners’ Circle
Getting Started
Title: Vital
Rhyming and Timing
From the Judge’s Side
Some Other Matters
Part Two
Patterns New and Old:
General
1. Free Verse— "My Father’s Inquirer Mind"
2. Blank Verse— "Tale of a Whittling Woman"
3. Limerick— "Off(ice) Day"
4. Concrete Poetry— "Over the Back Fence"
5. Epitaph— "Romance of the Rambling Rose"
6. Anglo-Saxon Verse— "The Death of Ganulf"
7. Tuanortsa— "Quick, Mates!"
8. Ballad— "The Merry Sailor’s Lass"
9. Mari Lwyd— "The Faring Forth of Cynan Cemaes"
10. Rhyme Royal— "The First Battle"
Sonnets
1. Shakespearean— "Portrait of Hannah with Helium Balloons"
2. Petrarchan— "The Birth of Art"
3. Spenserian— "Words for Christa"
4. Mason— "Passage of an Autumn Tramp"
5. Beymorlin— "Prayer for a New Son"
—"Soul Mates"
6. Glorionic— "Relative"
7. Opal— "An Aging Lady Speaks"
8. Asian— "Thoughts for Our Hostages"
9. Illini— "Child-scape"
10. Visser— "Spring on the March"
A Selection of Oriental Forms and Other Syllable Count Poems
1. Haiku— "Scarlet on Green And"
2. Senryu— "Traveler of the world"
3. Tanka— "Words for the Christ Child"
4. Cinquain— "New Hampshire April"
5. Sedoka— "Meditation to My Sister"
6. Sijo— "Last Gift"
7. Dr. Stella— "Well Started"
8. Doriece— "Hannah Margaret"
9. Grayette— "A May Day Prayer"
10. The Minute— "Garden Plotting"
French Forms
1. Ballade— "The Good Time Girl"
2. Sestina— "Storm Over Mount Cannon"
3. Villanelle— "Mary, Mary"
— "Words about Not Much
4. Triolet— "Silent Jury"
5. Rondeau— "North Country Survival"
6. Alba / Aubade— "Love Birds"
7. Chant Royal— "The Haunted Castle"
8. Rondeau Redouble— "White Mountain Paean"
9. Rondel— "To His Coy Lady"
10. Kyrielle— "Seasonal Succor"
—"Seasonal Succor" (alternate)
Part Three
Definitions and Examples
Words Poets Should Know
Twenty First-Prize Poems
1. "Beach Party in Winter"
2. "Wild Bones"
3. "Autumn Burning"
4. "Graveyard Shift"
5. "One Year Past Eden"
6. "Bag Lady of the Fields"
7. "Heartburst"
8. "I Bow Out"
9. "Forgotten Country"
10. "Outward Bound"
11. "Some Kind of Fish Story"
12. "Monument"
13. "The Heirloom Coverlet"
14. "On Seeing the World in a Tangerine"
15. "Island Lure"
16. "Words for Bill Kovanda"
17. "Gone Away"
18. "Bottle Babies"
19. "Grave Doubts"
20. "April Avowal"
Bibliography
Illustrations
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