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Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. The increased emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the deliberate use of features such as repetition, meter and rhyme, are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over such distinctions still persist, while the issue is confounded by such forms as prose poetry and poetic prose. Some modernists (such as the Surrealists) approach this problem of definition by defining poetry not as a literary genre within a set of genres, but as THE very manifestation of human imagination, the substance which all creative acts derive from.
Poetry may use condensed form to convey an emotion or idea to the reader or listener, or it may use devices such as assonance, alliteration and repetition to achieve musical or incantatory effects. Furthermore, poems often make heavy use of imagery, word association, and musical qualities. Because of its reliance on "accidental" features of language and connotational meaning, poetry is notoriously difficult to translate. Similarly, poetry's use of nuance and symbolism can make it difficult to interpret a poem or can leave a poem open to multiple interpretations. Thus, there can rarely be a single definitive interpretation of a given poem. In fact perhaps a better definition is Carl Sandburg's: "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."
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Aldrich Poetry Competition
 sponsored by the aldrich contemporary art museum, this annual contest seeks original poems by emerging writers. two winners will receive $500 each, plus publication. submission fee: $15. deadline: july 31.


Annual Short Grain Contest
 annual contest seeks original, unpublished poems in four categories. prize money totals $6,000. deadline: january 31.


Bridport Prize
 an international creative writing competition for poetry (under 42 lines) and short stories (under 5,000 words). prize money totals ten thousand pounds. entry fee: six pounds. deadline: june 30, each year.


Colorado Review Poetry Contest
 an annual contest for a book-length collection of poems, ranging from forty to one hundred manuscript pages. prize is $1,500, plus publication. closing date: mid-january. sponsored by the university of colorado.


Comstock Review Annual Poetry Contest
 original, unpublished poems are sought. maximum length: 40 lines. entry fee: $3 per poem. prize pool: $1,350. deadline: july 1. selected poems will be published.


Cross Way Publications Poetry Contest
 semi-annual contest is open to all christian poets. all forms of poetry are accepted. january through june and july through december.


Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes
 poetry prizes from $1,000 to $25,000 will be awarded for heartfelt lyric poems celebrating the spirit of life. deadline: november 6. entry fee: $10. open to any writer under the age of 40.


Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award
 annual contest offers a $1,000 cash award, plus publication, for an imaginative work. reading fee: $10. deadline: june 15.


Georgia Poetry Society Contests
 offers a number of contests throughout the year, international in scope, for short poems.


Griffin Poetry Prize
 griffin poetry prizes, worth c$40,000 each, are annual international and canadian literary awards for poetry written or translated into english. publishers only are invited to submit collections of poetry in traditional print format each calendar year.


Lost Horse Press
 the idaho prize is open to u.s. authors only. it offers $1000 plus publication for a book-length poetry manuscript of 48 pages or more. entry fee: $25. deadline: may 15.


Love Stories.com
 monthly poetry contests for members, subjects and rules varying every month.


Odes of March Poetry Contest
 annual contest, closing in march, offers a $300 cash prize.


OnceWritten.com
 seeks original, unpublished verse for website publication. no maximum word or line length. two contests per year with entry fee and cash prizes.


People Before Profits Poetry Prize
 an annual prize for an original poem on a "people before profits" theme. $10 entry fee. $200 prize. deadline: march 1.


Reuben Rose Annual Poetry Competition
 established to give a voice to writers of english poetry in israel, this competition seeks poems on general themes, not more than forty lines in length. entry fee: $5. deadline: october 7, 2003.


Slipstream Press Poetry Contest
 an annual poetry chapbook contest, worth $1,000, seeking up to forty pages of poetry in any style, format or theme. entry fee: $15. deadline: december 1, each year.


Strokestown Poetry Prize
 three categories of poetry are sought, each with a limit of 70 lines. cash prizes total $7,000. entry fee: $5. deadline: february 18.


Swift Satire Poetry Competition
 submissions are invited for a satirical poem, in the spirit and style of swift, on a topic of social/political interest. first prize: euro 1,000. closing date: july 24, 2004.


The Baltimore Review
 seeks entries of one to four original poems, totalling no more than five pages. all styles and genres will be considered, including prose poems. entry fee: $12. prizes: $300, $150, and $50. submit between march 1- july 1.


The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards
 an annual award of $100,000 is offered for a published book of original poetry by a u.s. citizen or legal resident alien.


The New Writer Poetry and Prose Prizes
 annual contest seeks both single and multiple (six to ten) poems, plus short stories and essays. 2,500 pounds in prize pool. entry fees vary from 4 pounds to 10 pounds.


The Poetic Link
 an interactive data base, publishing submitted works and critiques and offering monthly prizes for best poet and best critiquer. includes membership form and contest rules.


The Poetry Business competition
 contestants submit a collection of poems (16ࢠ&#-910;4 pages). up to five winners share a pool of one thousand pounds, plus publication. closing date: 31 october. entry fee: £18 per collection.


Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred Contest
 seeks unpublished verse, no longer than 100 lines. judged on literary excellence, spiritual tenor and human authenticity. prize money totals $650. no entry fee. deadline: december 31.


Tom Howard Poetry Contest
 annual contest, closing september 30, 2005, seeks original poems in any style, on any theme, and of any length. published verse and simultaneous submissions are okay. prize money totals $2,000, including a first prize of $1,000. all prizewinners also receive a free copy of the anthology of winning entries. entry fee is $5 for every 25 lines.


Voices Network
 features quarterly poetry competitions, with no entry fees. open to all, though entries from children are judged by less strict criteria. cash prizes total $175.


Winning Writers
 offers several annual competitions, among them a contest on the specific theme of war and a parody competition. includes link lists, recommendations for reading and an online guide to poetry contests for subscribers.


literature:arts

Aha! Poetry
 consists of a resource for writers and readers of poetry, emphasizing asian and orientalizing forms such as cinquain, ghazal, haiku, renga, sijo and tanka.


DayPoems
 a random walk through eight centuries of english-language verse, updated daily. visitors can add their poems by email, and webmasters can link to individual poems. indexed by poet and title. illustrated.


EnviroArts
 emphasizes the literary and visual arts in relation to nature, with poetry and essays by contemporary authors (culled mostly from the pages of orion and orion afield magazines--which co-sponsor this site) and information on historic naturalism and naturalist literature.


Forgotten Ground Regained
 webzine and poetry resource offering original poems, essays, translations and links to alliterative poems, original medieval epics and verse romances.


Glossary of Poetic Terms
 "a unique guide for the study of poetry, with an extensive range of definitions, cross-references between related terms, informative sidelights, hyperlinked keywords, phonetic pronunciation guides and numerous examples."


Passions in Poetry
 archive of contemporary and user-submitted poetry with categories dedicated to love, sadness, friendship and life.


Poem of the Day
 at killdevilhill.com. features an online chat, and users can sign up to have the selected poem automatically delivered to their mailboxes daily.


Poetry at BellaOnline
 resource offers archived features, categorized links and recommended reading.


Starbuck.com Classical Poetry Port
 devoted to traditional poets and poetry including dickinson and shakespeare. includes online forums, commentary and links.


The Academy of American Poets
 organization presenting poems, biographies of poets, historical and thematic poetry exhibits, events calendars, discussion forums and contest information.


The Open Poetry Project
 an open editable database of information about poetry, poets, and poems. includes a lengthy glossary of poetic terms.


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Faiz Ahmed Faiz
 official site of the faiz foundation with information about the urdu poet and his work, and also about the foundation.


Kishwar Naheed
 four urdu poems, in romanized script, by this feminist poet and activist.


Mehfil-e-Mushaira
 real audio clips of urdu poetry, in the original language, and some script.


Punjabi Poetry
 it mainly concerns punjabi poetry and culture and includes a discussion forum.


Urdu Poetry Archive
 features various types of urdu poetry in romanized script.


World of Urdu Poetry
 a wide selection of urdu poetry, with script download facility.


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Basil Payne, Poet
 information on published and unpublished work, news and history.


Maureen Gallagher - Poet
 a collection of poetry prose and short stories from irish author maureen gallagher.


Sonnets from Ireland
 works of 19th century poets with some audio files.


japanese:world_literature

ah..!
 bukowski poetry


pakistani:world_literature

Alnaschar and the Oxen
 text from kipling.org .


filipino:world_literature

John Keats
 a selection of sonnets from the sonnet central website.


polish:world_literature

Charmides and Other Poems
 framed. divided into three major sections, each with several pages. requires javascript and cookies; does not work in some browsers.


Poems, 1881.
 complete etext at bartleby.com, indexed by title and first line.


Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde
 framed. split into several pages. includes two versions of "the ballad of reading gaol." requires javascript and cookies; does not work in some browsers.


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Perl Monks: Perl Poetry
 discussion board where users post their own poetry and critique that of others.


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Saint Tukaram
 english translations of the poems of the 17th century marathi poet in praise of lord vithoba (known as abhangs in marathi). the site is in marathi and english.


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Counter-Attack
 site dedicated to first world war literature, and siegfried sassoon in particular.


Poetry of the First World War
 an online discussion list on poetry during the war.


Sonnets of World War I
 collection from several authors.


Sound Stage
 selection of poetic perspectives of the war with full text and audio.


War Propaganda Bureau
 composed works of writers and artists that propagated the british cause.


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League of American Poets: September 11 Poems
 read poems dedicated to the victims of the tragedy.


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ANZAC Main Sound Stage.
 audio poems of tribute to the fallen anzacs of wwi


Australian Light Horse Poetry
 a collection of wwi poems from the australian light horse regiments.


General Issue Blues
 poems about the war in vietnam describing rice paddy ambushes, helicopter assaults and the anxiety of operating amongst the ever present threat of mines and booby traps.


Iron Nurses
 poetry and photography honoring u.s. veterans.


Military Memories
 poetry & art inspired by veterans from recent and past conflicts.


Military Poetry
 a combination of poems from the allied armed forces of wwi,wwii and the vietnam war.


Poems From The Front
 poetry by american military personnel in the war on terror.


Submitted Poetry Pages
 privately owned, open to the public web site for submitting military related poetry and graphics.


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