Dancing Poetry Contest

The deadline is March 15, 2008 for the fourteenth annual Dancing Poetry Contest, which, with Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company, is sponsored by Artists Embassy International, whose goal is to present Poetry and Dance as a unified art form. All prize winners will receive a certificate suitable for framing, and be invited to read their prize-winning poem at the Dancing Poetry Festival, Saturday, September 27, 2008 in the Florence Gould Theater in the Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum in San Francisco.

• Three Grand Prize Winners will receive $100, plus the poems will be danced and videotaped for you. Also, each Grand Prize Winner will be invited on stage for photo ops with the dancers and a bow in the lime lite.
• Five First Prizes will receive $50 each.
• Ten Second Prizes will receive $25 each.
• Twenty-five Third Prizes will receive $10 each.

The entry fee is $5 for one poem, and $10 for up to three poems. There is a 40-line maximum per poem, but no limit on the number of entries. Please go to their website for the rest of the contest guidelines.