Guidelines
Guidelines: (1) Include your name, the title of your original poem, and a brief comment about yourself; (2) Poems may be in any language (please include an English translation); (3) Poems may not violate Nicolet's Social Media Guidelines; (4) Original poems may be submitted anonymously; (5) Submit poems to Ocie Kilgus (okilgus@nicoletcollege.edu). Students who submit original poems are eligible for the Best Original Poem contest. The student with the best poem will be awarded the Ron Parkinson Poetry Matters Student Scholarship Award in the amount of $300. The community member with the best poem will receive dinner for two at Church Street Inn, Hazelhurst. Upon the closing of the Poetry Project, a faculty committee will select the winning poems. The winners of the contest will be recognized at Nicolet College's Award Ceremonies on May 10.
April 7, 2013
No poetry by students for today's posting.
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"I am not a poet"
Michele Regenold
I am not a poet
Because
Analyzing poetry in college
Scared the bejeebers
Out of me.
I didn’t get it.
I am not a poet
Because
I can’t write
That short.
I need lots of room
For a story to
Grow and reach.
I am not a poet
Because
I don’t hear
Music in words
Like good
Poets do.
Instead I see story
In pictures
In my head.
Poets don’t
Tell stories
That way,
Do they?
