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**18th Annual HIES Poetry Contest ** **Steve Marine Poetry Award ** = = "Things that are true expressed in words that are beautiful." --Dante Alighieri, definition of poetry

Fame! Cash Prizes! Literary Immortality! 3rd Place: $50 2nd Place: $75 1st Place: $100  

**__2018 HIES Poetry Contest Rules and Regulations __** 1. Student contestants must be enrolled in grades 9-12 at Holy Innocents' Episcopal School.

2. Each student may submit up to **//three//** poems.

3. Poem entries may be written in any form or style, with the following parameters:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">each poem must be **//no longer than two pages (single-spaced)//**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">each poem must be **//in a readable 12-point font//** (such as Courier or Times New Roman, etc.)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">4. Submit **//__four__//** paper copies of each poem:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">**//Three copies//** without your name on them should be submitted //in one envelope labeled **"Entry."**//
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">In a separate envelope labeled **//"Name,"//** submit a **//fourth copy//** of the entry with your name on it.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">5. All poems must be **//original works//** and the sole work of the student who submits them.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">6. All entries are potentially considered for publication in //Rhyme and Reason// unless the submitting student specifically indicates that the judges **//NOT//** do that. The winning poems will be published in //Rhyme and Reason.//

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">7. All entries must be turned in to Dr. Swann (office in Room 415 or faculty mailbox) no later than __//**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 160%;">Wednesday, March 7. **//__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;"> Awards ceremony date TBA.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">8. Please e-mail Dr. Swann at chris.swann@hies.org with any questions.