Get rhymin’! Poems wanted for Garrison Keillor contest

BringMetheNews ^ | 4-2-15 | Shaymus McLaughlin

[TurboZamboni]

April kicks off with a day for fools, but spends the rest of its weeks celebrating meters, diction and iambic pentameters. Yes, it’s National Poetry Month. And as part of a celebration of the written word, Garrison Keillor is once again using his Common Good Books in St. Paul for a poetry contest. It’s the third straight year, and Keillor himself is offering $5,000 in prizes – three winners will get a grand apiece, and four runners-up will each get $500. The theme this year? “Dear you.” So the work must be a letter to a “specific, living person,” the rules state.

[TurboZamboni]

whoever writes an ode to light rail wins.

my poem is to Jim Thompson.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Will most of them be above average?

[Texas Gal]

It’s too late baby

[TurboZamboni]

An above average PITA to their neighbors maybe

http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/13973526.html

[blueunicorn6]

A poem for Garrison.

Ou Sont Les Toilettes?

I saw the deer.
The deer saw me.
I took a crap.
The deer took a pee.

From The Collections Of blueunicorn6

[hosepipe]

AH!.. Ode’s or Limericks to Zero Obama.. The first Moocher.. The White Hut.. The Executive Latrine.. The Treasonator..

[jobim]

That's hilarious. The Writer's Almanac is a daily feature on PBS, which I catch every now and then quite by accident.

Every single poem he reads for the day is of a type.

Let me spontaneously write one of these types right at this moment:

The park bench where the young lovers sat
was strewn with newspapers
Left by the forlorn gentleman now walking
Along the pathway toward the museum under a grey sky,
And she turned to him and said:
I wonder if he was able to read the events of the day?"
And he replied:
"Sadness and regret make one literate in matters of the heart."
And then they in unison took long, slow drags from the muse within their cigarettes.

I taught high school English for 20 years, and I write poetry myself, so I have a particular interest in Keillor and what he presents to the public as worthy.

His ability to discern poetry of merit parallels his ability to analyze the passing political scene: utter failure.

[a fool in paradise]

The theme this year? “Dear you.” So the work must be a letter to a “specific, living person,” the rules state.

DRAT! I drew "Mr. Orange" in this poetry contest.

[razorback-bert]

Garrison, I pass
Kiss my___

[MNDude]

Once there is a man from Lake Wobegon
Who was on the radio and made me yawn
He was incredibly boring
That’s why I was snoring
He makes me puke on me lawn

[bboop]

You guys are the best!!

[a fool in paradise]

From Lake Wobegon there was a Pinko...
Who’s radio comedy was stinko.
He offered a writing competition...
with rotten entries we will not mention,
I’m much rather be playing pachinko!

[Fresh Wind]

He who writes upon these walls...

[bigbob]

English major may have wit
But Garrison Keillor is full of warm spit

[MNDude]

Not bad!

[Daffynition]

[a fool in paradise]

What’s the frequency, Gary?

[Chickensoup]

My goodness, is he still alive?

Needs to be in the death pool.

[dfwgator]

"You want poems I got f---ing poems."