Win! Poetry Contests With the Patterns and Forms to Get You There

WIN! Poetry Contests
With the Patterns and Forms to Get You There
By Esther M. Leiper

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04/24/07

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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

Poetry/Hourglass
Old Anna and the Soap Operas
Roam-ancing
That Spot a Magnet
Epic in a Bottle
Powers of Creation
Robot Riposte
Climbing the Heights
Soul-Mates
Living
Garden Plotting
Arise From Your Pillow
Luring Pegasus
Flutter By Butterfly
Portrait of a Faun
A Gust of Drops

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