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Entertainment Weekly's Oscar Poetry Contest [1]

2.11.09

Okay, so this contest doesn't offer literary fame or fortune—or much of anything, really, beyond a little fun. But if you're into poetry and movies, Entertainment Weekly is holding a contest in honor of Hollywood's biggest self-congratulatory party—the Academy Awards—that might be of interest.

After the editors of the popular culture magazine received a letter in the form of a poem [2] celebrating Oscar season from a reader in McHenry, Illinois (who somehow manages to reference Revolutionary Road, Milk, Gran Torino, Frost/Nixon, My Bloody Valentine, Fantasia, Slumdog Millionaire, Marley and Me, Liar, Liar, Yes Man, The Wrestler, and The Dark Knight, all in thirty-four lines) they posted it on Entertainment Weekly's Web site [3]and invited poets to submit their own Oscar-themed verse.

So go ahead, put your film critic's hat on and submit a poem [2] before those little gold statues are handed out on February 22.

 

 


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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/content/entertainment_weekly039s_oscar_poetry_contest [2] http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/02/poetry-contest.html [3] http://www.ew.com/ew