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Teens, Share Your Poetry

March 7th, 2009 telias

Fabu, Madison’s Poet Laureate, and the Madison Arts Commission (MAC) announce Bus Lines, a high school poetry competition that will print selected poems on the placards right above the seats on Metro Transit busses.

Teachers, parents, and anyone who interacts with Madison high school students should encourage them to submit poems to Bus Lines. Students, who are enrolled in a Madison high school during the 2008/2009 school year, are invited to submit up to three (3) original, unpublished poems to Bus Lines. Poems of any subject affirming poetry and life will be reviewed. Poems can be submitted in any language, but must also include an English language translation. Each poem must be no longer than eight (8) lines. There is no entry fee. There will be no monetary prize awarded to students whose work is selected.

Bus Lines Applications and Guidelines are available on the MAC Website or by contacting the Arts Program Administrator at kwolf@cityofmadison.com or (608) 261.9134. Entries are accepted through March 31, 2009.

Bus Lines, is a collaborative project involving: Fabu, Madison’s Poet Laureate; Madison Arts Commission; Metro Transit; Madison Metropolitan School District; Madison Public Library; and the Wisconsin Book Festival.

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