Judged by Thomas Lynch www.schoolcraft.edu/pdfs/macguffin/Poet_Hunt_Contest.pdf First Place Prize $500 *Two Honorable Mentions* Contest Rules 1. Each entrant will receive one FREE issue of The MacGuffin that includes the 14th National Poet Hunt winners. 2. Staff members and their families are not eligible to participate. 3. An entry consists of five poems. 4. Poems must be typed on sheets of 81/2 x 11” paper. Clean photocopies are acceptable....

home.comcast.net/~sagecj/finchprize.html PRIZE AMOUNT INCREASED FOR 2009! All entries will be considered by the editor for publication. Submit up to three unpublished, uncommitted poems (10 pages maximum per group of three poems), cover letter with bio and contact information, including email address for results, with a $15.00 fee (personal check only, please; no money orders) to C. J. Sage, TNPR, Post Office Box 2080, Aptos, California...

www.tigerseyejournal.com Our annual poetry contest deadline has been extended until March 31st, 2009. We look forward to reading your work. Prizes: $500, $150, $50 Send 3 poems, bio, SASE, and $10 to: Tiger’s Eye Poetry Contest, P.O. Box 2935, Eugene, OR 97402.

prairieschooner.unl.edu/prizes/index.html short fiction and poetry awards $3000 and publication (U of Nebraska Press). Runners-up receive $1000. New and established writers welcome. Mail manuscripts with $25 (Jan 15 to March 16): Prairie Schooner Prize Series (insert genre), University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 201 Andrews Hall, PO Box 880334, Lincoln NE 68588-0334. www.prairieschooner.unl.edu

Entries must be received by 31st May 2009 The New Zealand Poetry Society’s annual International Poetry Competition, Verse and Haiku, is now under way, with Open and Junior Sections. The Junior Open and Junior Haiku sections are open to students who are 17 years of age or younger on 31st May 2009. Please visit our website at www.poetrysociety.org.nz for full competition details and to download the entry forms. Last year’s results, including...

Springsteen’s passionate listeners have been grateful for his music that address their causes and struggles for years. From movie producers/directors who’ve asked for something special to fit the themes of their films to the lyrics that come from Bruce’s own conscious and the issues swelling from the times of our lives. Springsteen has created music and lyrics that help carry us through. Think of Philadelphia, The Wrestler, so...