Our Forum’s envoys to the November IBPC

We’re proud to announce the three poems that will represent our Forum in this month’s InterBoard Poetry Competition -- one by a Forum poet whose work has often been nominated for IBPC entry, one by a second-time representative, and one by an IBPC newcomer. Our entries are:

• “As Black As White / Dream,” by MaryLee Treistay, an eerie, wintry dream poured into rhymed stanzas.
• “Bird Painter,” Guy Kettelhack’s ekphrastic tribute to his mother’s artistry, filled as usual with his own artistry of enjambment and echoing internal rhymes.
• “Umbrella” by Lily Chan (BlissBuddha), a spare trio of distilled images, voted the winner in our Forum’s most recent challenge.

(BlissBuddha’s poem is no less lovely for having come out of a challenge in which the competition was very thin -- only a few Forum poets participated in this latest writing exercise and the voting. We think the challenge is a great way for the Forum community of poets to inspire and critique each other’s poetic work, and we urge you all to get on over to the Workshop: Challenge folder and take part in Challenge #107, for which BlissBuddha has just posted the kernel lines to get you started.)

Kudos and luck in the judging to all three poets. We will be back to report the results when judge E. Ethelbert Miller has made his choices.

Please keep the nominations coming! Whenever you see a great poem posted on our Forum, no matter where it is, come to the InterBoard Poetry Competition folder and nominate it! There are so many postings on the Forum that your Poetry Guides must rely on your help to sift out the worthy entries at the end of each month.

Related resources:
Current IBPC judge E. Ethelbert Miller
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