Tuesday, March 28, 2023

2023 Ohio Poetry Day Contests Now Open

[Cross-posted from the Ohio Poetry Association blog:]

Our friends at the Ohio Poetry Day Association have announced their annual contests! May 15, 2023, is the deadline (postmark) for nearly two dozen contest categories. Categories include humor, formal poems, parody and more. As always, a “Welcome Aboard” category for first-time submitters and an art category to design the cover art for the 2023 Best of Ohio Poetry Day anthology are also open to submissions. 

Below is a copy of the submission form, which provides full contest information. 

Ohio Poetry Day 2023 will take place in October. Stay up to date on OPD information, including the event date, location, and agenda, by getting your name and address on the OPD mailing list. To do so, contact:

Amy Jo Zook

3520 State Route 56

Mechanicsburg, OH 43044


Checks for all contest fees and purchases should be made payable to: Ohio Poetry Day. For questions, call (937) 834-2666.


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Saturday, January 14, 2023

Best of 2022 Anthology Now Available!

The Ohio Poetry Day Association's Best of 2022 anthology is now available for ordering. The collection features the winning poems in OPD's annual contests, with more than 60 poems along with work by Ohio Poet of the Year, Erica Manto Paulson. All purchases help fund OPD's Poet of the Year program and are tax deductible, as OPD is a 501(c)(3) organization. For questions, contact call (937) 834-2666.


Ordering Information

Price: $14 (includes postage)

Mail check or money order, payable to OPD, to:


Amy Jo Zook

3520 State Route 56

Mechanicsburg, OH 43044

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Ohio Poet of the Year: Erica Manto Paulson

Congratulations to our new Ohio Poet of the Year, Erica Manto Paulson!
 
The Ohio Poetry Association will serve as the virtual host of this year’s Ohio Poetry Day (OPD) celebration. The afternoon will spotlight the 2022 Ohio Poet of the Year, Erica Manto Paulson, for her winning book, Hunger (Finishing Line Press, 2021). We also are inviting OPD contest winners to take part and read their winning poems. To that end, OPA will host a virtual reading using Zoom and broadcast live on the OPA Facebook page.

This event is free and open to the public, but Zoom space is limited. Viewers can also tune into the event on Facebook. Click here to register.

OPD contest winners are invited to share their winning poems during the event. To reserve a spot in the reading, winners should contact the OPA team via email at team@ohiopoetryassn.org.

Registration via Eventbrite on the OPA website: https://www.ohiopoetryassn.org/events#ahejSK.

Registration closes October 14, 2022.
 
 

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Ohio Poetry Day Virtual Celebration on October 15th

The Ohio Poetry Association is pleased to announce it will again serve as the virtual host of this year’s Ohio Poetry Day (OPD) celebration. The afternoon will spotlight the 2022 Ohio Poet of the Year. We also are inviting OPD contest winners to take part and read their winning poems. To that end, OPA will host a virtual reading on Saturday, October 15, using Zoom and will broadcast it live on the OPA Facebook page.

More information coming soon.

Monday, March 7, 2022

2022 Ohio Poetry Day Contests

The annual Ohio Poetry Day Association contests have been announced. May 15, 2022, is the deadline (postmark) for more than twenty contests, including a “Welcome Aboard” category for first-time submitters and an art category to design the cover art for the 2022 Best of Ohio Poetry Day anthology, published later this year. Below is a copy of the submission form, which provides full contest information. 

Ohio Poetry Day 2022 will take place in October. Stay up to date on OPD information, including the event date, location, and agenda, by getting your name and address on the OPD mailing list. To do so, contact:

Amy Jo Zook

3520 State Route 56

Mechanicsburg, OH 43044


Checks for all contest fees and purchases should be made payable to: Ohio Poetry Day. For questions, call (937) 834-2666.



Saturday, October 9, 2021

Best of 2021 Anthology Now Available!

The Ohio Poetry Day Association's Best of 2021 anthology is now available for ordering. The collection features the winning poems in OPD's annual contests, with more than 60 poems along with work by Ohio Poet of the Year, Quartez Harris. All purchases help fund OPD's Poet of the Year program and are tax deductible, as OPD is a 501(c)(3) organization. For questions, contact call (937) 834-2666.  

Ordering Information
Price: $14 (includes postage)

Mail check or money order, payable to Ohio Poetry Day, to:

Amy Jo Zook

3520 State Route 56

Mechanicsburg, OH 43044


Be sure to tune in for the Ohio Poetry Day 2021 celebration.
Date: Saturday, October 16, 2021
Time:
1:30—4:30 PM

Registration: Event will take place on Zoom. Register via Eventbrite. Registrants will receive an email with Zoom login information. Space is limited. The event also can be viewed without registration live on the OPA Facebook page: facebook.com/ohiopoetry.

 

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Ohio Poetry Day Association names 2021 Poet of the Year and Contest Winners

[Copied and pasted from the Ohio Poetry Association blog. Thank you, Chuck Salmons.]

The Ohio Poetry Day Association (OPDA) has selected Quartez Harris as its Ohio Poet of the Year for 2021. Harris was selected for his book of poems, We Made It to School Alive (Twelve Arts Press, 2020).


Residing in Cleveland, Ohio, Harris is a second-grade teacher at Michael R. White Elementary School.
We Made It to School Alive, his second collection of poetry, was inspired by his work as a teacher and gives voice to the experiences of the children he works with every day who deal with issues of gun violence, poverty, educational challenges, and more.

Harris’ first book, Nothing, But Skin, was published in 2014 by Writing Knights Press. He is the first recipient of the Barbara Smith Writer-In-Resident at Twelve Literary Arts and a 2020 Baldwin House Fellow. He has been featured in the Plain Dealer, IdeaStream, and City Club of Cleveland, and recently signed on to be represented by Mckinnon Literary Agency. His works in progress are a young-adult novel and picture book biography. Learn more at quartezharris.comTo purchase a copy of We Made It to School Alive, visit twelve-arts-press.myshopify.com.



Harris’ book was one of seven books nominated this year. He joins the likes of Mary Oliver, David Baker, and Maggie Smith as Poet of the Year. To see a list of previous Poet of the Year winners, visit the OPA blog article
here.

Annual Contest Winners

OPDA also has released the winners list for the 2021 OPD contests (see below). Winners and Honorable Mentions for the 24 contests reside not only in Ohio but across the United States and even overseas. Contest winners are invited to take part in the OPD event on October 16 by reading their winning poem(s). Winners should email OPA President Chuck Salmons,  president(@ohiopoetryassn.org, by October 10, 2021.

Join the Celebration: Ohio Poetry Day 2021

Date: Saturday, October 16, 2021
Time: 1:30—4:30 PM
Registration: Event will take place on Zoom. Register via Eventbrite. Registrants will receive an email with Zoom login information. Space is limited. The event also can be viewed without registration live on the OPA Facebook page: facebook.com/ohiopoetry.

About Ohio Poetry Day

The Ohio Poetry Day Association was founded in 1937 by authorization of the Ohio Legislature. Since 1976, it has selected annually an Ohio Poet of the Year, basing its choice on a book published in the previous one to two years. The award is based on the one book and not on an aggregation of work published over time. Four judges are selected to review the nominees, one of which is always a previous poet of the year winner.

For more information about Ohio Poetry Day, visit ohiopoetryday.blogspot.com.

         

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