Logos and poems--Poetry Contest

[Lisa Heft]

I once tried to do everything opposite.
Sit in a line.  
I shall stand at a podium and tell you how to think.
No room for extra thoughts - that is off-topic.
Please have your agenda items ready one week in advance.
I will select a few topics I feel pertain to the issue.
Please refrain from thinking until the official start time of our
meeting.
Only those with special titles may have ideas.
Do not leave the room.
Please be sure you end the meeting with the same thoughts you came in
with.
Keep the windows closed so no insects fly in to disturb our meeting.
No breathing, please.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lisa
 
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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Joelle
Lyons Everett
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 5:05 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Logos and poems--Poetry Contest
 
Five more days to post your poems for this year's Poetry Contest.  The
theme for poems is OST; the form is satire.

Satire:  A literary work in which irony, derision, or wit in any form is
used to expose folly or wickedness.  (American Heritage dictionary)

Satire:  (from Latin satira, satura, a poetic medley; from satura, a
dish filled with various fruits, a medley; from satur, full of food,
sated)  A poem or prose work holding up human vices, follies, etc. to
ridicule or scorn.  Trenchant wit, irony or sarcasm, used for the
purpose of exposing and discrediting vice or folly. (Webster's New
Collegiate dictionary)

Poets, satirists, wits . . . we await your words.  What folly would you
like to expose . . . or celebrate?


Joelle Everett
the almost-ex-poet laureate



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