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By Scott LorenzWestwind CommunicationsAre you a poet and nobody knows it? Get busy and enter poetry competitions and tell the world about your poetry!One of the best ways to gain exposure for your poetry is to enter your work into various poetry competitions around the United States. The recognition gained
By Scott LorenzWestwind Communications1. Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, Salt Lake City, UT. Honoring the memory of a celebrated poet and a beloved teacher, the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry is awarded annually and is sponsored by The University of Utah Press and The University of Utah Department
GREENSBURG - A few years ago I wrote about a family that lived here and moved away but still remembers with great affection their years in Decatur County.
Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Matty is a Vice Presidential Fellow at the University of Utah where he is pursuing a PhD in English. He currently serves as the Managing Editor of Quarterly West and the Wasatch Writers in the Schools Coordinator. INTRODUCTION Write patiently and read generously. The sustainable poet quickly learns patience, whether that be in the writing process and the arc of an individual poem or the hellscape that is the submissions process. As a young writer, I allowed my desire for affirmation or belonging to lead me to submit work that I now (and perhaps then) understa...