February competitors from our Forum

We’ve chosen three very different but equally fine poems to represent the About Poetry Forum in this month’s InterBoard Poetry Competition: “A Silent Film Subtitled in Yiddish” by H. Novack, aka Yankeedog, whose poetic powers contain an entire life’s history in 11 evocative lines; “Hearing Owl Screech” by Janelle L. Streed, a first-time IBPC nominee whose poem was summed up by her nominator as “succinctly conjured... rich imagery... earth-centered narrative”; and “An Ode To Act” by Robert D. Ortiz, aka Oren Stern, whose poem is a tightly structured piece of allegorical wordplay. Kudos to the three poets, may their poems find favor in the eye & voice of IBPC judge John Poch, and thanks to everyone who offered nominations or posted permissions.

We collect nominations for entry in the IBPC on an ongoing basis, relying on your eyes to spot the best of the many, many poems posted in our Forum. If you see one worthy to represent us in the competition, nominate it by posting it in the IBPC folder, and be sure to notify the poet whose work you have put forward, to give them a chance to supply the information & permissions we must have before we can include the poem among our entries.

Related resources:
About the IBPC
Requirements for IBPC nominees
Anthology of the monthly IBPC winning poems
Archive of poems entered in the IBPC from our Poetry Forum