Art Talk: City bus poetry deadline extended to May 16 for students

Jacob Stockinger — 5/08/2008 9:32 am

This just in from the City of Madison Arts Commission:

"PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!" the alert says.

"On May 2, two days after the deadline for submitting poems for the Bus Lines competition, we discovered that there was a problem with our on-line submission form.

(The competition is for short poems to be reproduced on posters in city buses. You can check out the original call for poetry by going to the Art Talk archives and looking at the March 31 entry, part of which is reproduced below.)

"This meant that we had not received any submissions from students.

Because of this mishap, we are extending the deadline for students to submit poems for the Bus Lines competition to Friday, May 16.

If you have students who previously submitted poems through our website, please encourage them to resubmit them to ensure that we have them. If, heaven forfend, there is any additional trouble with the submissions page on our website, please have your students e-mail their poems to madisonarts@cityofmadison.com.

Here is the original posting:

Just in time for National Poetry Month in April, Madison's Poet Laureate and the Madison Arts Commission (MAC) are announcing the new project that combines literature and transportation Bus Lines.Nice wordplay title, no?

It's a high school poetry competition that will print selected poems on the placards right above the seats on Metro Transit buses in the 2008-09 academic year.

Students whose work is selected will also be invited to read their work at the Wisconsin Book Festival next October.

Teachers, parents and anyone who interacts with high school students should encourage them to submit poems to Bus Lines.

Students who are enrolled in a Madison high school during the 2007-08 school year are eligible and are invited to submit up to three original, unpublished poems to Bus Lines.

Poems can be submitted in any language, but must also include an English language translation.

Each poem must be no longer than EIGHT lines.

There is no entry fee. And there will be no monetary prize awarded to students whose work is selected.

BUS LINES Applications and Guidelines are available on the MAC Website at http://www.cityofmadison.com/mac/buslines/ or by calling the Arts Program Administrator at kwolf@cityofmadison.com or (608) 261.9134.

Even if you don't win or get selected for the buses, WHY NOT POST YOUR POEMS HERE ON ART TALK AND GET SOME READER REACTIONS?

Jacob Stockinger — 5/08/2008 9:32 am

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