Poetry Contest UPDATE
as of March 18, 2020
The Poetry Committee will continue to accept entries to the 2020 Poetry Contest. The Awards Ceremony will be rescheduled for a date in the fall. Until then, please keep creating poems! Poets are welcome to submit more than one entry. For updates on library re-openings: https://www.bpl.org/locations/40/
NEW submission guidelines in effect while the West Roxbury Library is closed:
1. You may submit entries electronically to FriendsoftheWestRoxburyLibrary@gmail.com
2. If you wish to submit paper entries, you should hold them until the library reopens. At that time you may deliver by hand to the poem drop box at the library or mail to:
Poetry Contest
West Roxbury Branch Library
1961 Centre Street
West Roxbury, Ma 02132
Here are some thoughts from poet Mary Pinard:
I do think that there might be a lot of interesting energy if kids (of all ages) knew that they could shape their experiences over the coming weeks into poems–and our theme of “Space” brings with it all kinds of related possibilities given how the coronavirus has so shifted how we experience ourselves where and how we live, and in all the spaces we love, and may lose, at least temporarily.
