| Show Students Encouraged To Write Poetry APA The American Poetry Association sponsors several several poetry poetry contests a year with winning poets selected from thousands of entrants Prizes awarded total more than including Grand prizes of 1000 The current contests contest's deadline is June 30 Poets interested in entering the contest should send three poems each no nomore nomore nomore more than 20 lines with their names and addresses on the top of each page to American Poetry Association Dept CN 20 A Potrero Street PO P.O. Box 1803 Santa Cruz CA We especially enjoy seeing poetry from college and university students That's why we set deadlines they can easily meet said John Frost chief editor for the Association After final examinations nations are over students will still have time to send us poems by June he added Poets who qualify in hi an AP APA A contest later receive invitations to other AP APA A contests also endowed with 1000 Grand Prizes During six years of sponsorship the American Poetry Association has run 18 contests and awarded over in prizes to many hundreds of winning poets |
