Our Forum’s envoys to the October IBPC

Three short but very fine poems have been selected to represent our Poetry Forum in this month’s InterBoard Poetry Competition: “The Bronze Age” by Sean Callahan (Curoi), which was polished before our eyes & given its title by GuyBlakeKett in its Forum thread; “Call Me ‘Chocolate,’” by Kathryn Wells-Vogel, a sweet & sexy confection; and “Canvas” by Joyce Wakefield, written for the current challenge posed by TornScorpio in response to these lines:

your brain's
axe only chops hugest inherent
Trees of Ego, from
whose living and biggest
bodies lopped
of every
prettiness
you hew form truly

(The source of the “challenge seed” lines will not be revealed until the challenge voting is completed on Monday... so check back in the Forum Library folder then to find out whose lines inspired this week’s challenge exercise.)

Kudos & luck in the judging to our three poets, and thanks to everyone who offered nominations or posted permissions. We will, of course, be back with the results when the judge has chosen the winning poems.

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