<div dir="ltr">The Poetry Smackdown will occur at the Kingdom Arts & Sciences Festival in <span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:19.2px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">Spotsylvania</span>, VA on March 5, 2016. <div><br></div><div>Acorn event flyer: <a href="http://atlantia.sca.org/137-events/170-event-info?event_id=b8592328">http://atlantia.sca.org/137-events/170-event-info?event_id=b8592328</a></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername"></b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rangernealson@aol.com">rangernealson@aol.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 4:45 PM<br>Subject: [Keep] announcement for poetry slam (please cross post across appropriate lists)<br>To: <a href="mailto:keep@windmastershill.org">keep@windmastershill.org</a>, <a href="mailto:buckstonlist@buckston.atlantia.sca.org">buckstonlist@buckston.atlantia.sca.org</a>, <a href="mailto:lgoldman05@yahoo.com">lgoldman05@yahoo.com</a><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:k_hawk_us@yahoo.com">k_hawk_us@yahoo.com</a><br><br><br><font color="black" size="2" face="arial">
<div><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Greetings and Well wishes unto
all the Poets, Lyricists, Orators and Wordsmiths in this, the fairest of all
Kingdoms, Atlantia-</span></b></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">This year at the Kingdom Arts and
Sciences Festival there shall once again be held THE Duke Gyrth Oldcastle
Memorial Poetry Smackdown, this one being the eighth such annual event.<span> </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">‘WHAT, PRAYTELL, IS A POETRY
SMACKDOWN?’ I sense you asking . . . </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">I’m glad you asked.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">The smackdown serves as an
opportunity for poets of all experience levels to come and display their
wordsmithing prowess in front of others in the spirit of good fun.<span> </span>This is not a competition, though each
entrant shall be given a token to give to their favorite entry.<span> </span>And yes, occasionally some of the poets use
this opportunity to . . . . make statements about each other.<span> </span>But that is by no means a requirement this
year.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Entrants are asked to write the
poems beforehand (this year there are two (2) poems required) and to either
show up at the KASF to read their poems or to send them along with someone to
read or to send them to me (the moderator of this year’s smack down) and I
shall arrange to have them read.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">This year, in the hopes of
attracting many poets to the competition, the entry requirements are very
flexible.<span> </span>Here is what any aspiring poet
must write to enter-</span></div>
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<div style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><span>1)<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Entry fee
poem-<span> </span>In honor of a great person and
poet (Duke Gyrth Oldcastle) you must write a poem, in any period style, that
praises someone in your life that inspires you (your lord, your lady, your pet
parakeet, whatever).<span> </span>OR, alternately, you
can write a poem on any topic that is in the style and form of an Elizabethan
sonnet (one of Gyrth’s favored styles).</span></div>
<div style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><span>2)<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">A smackdown
poem.<span> </span>This must be a poem, in any period
style, that smacks down either a period archetype/profession or a scadian
archetype/profession.<span> </span>This can be an
incredibly general archetype (i.e. French people) a more specific archetype
(i.e. fishmongers, laurels, people who pass gas at feasts) or a VERY specific
archetype (i.e. welsh people who wear too many hats and write bad poetry).<span> </span>This poem does not need to be about any
specific person at all and should not mention any names specifically.<span> </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">It is my hope that the entrants
will be able to send me their poems prior to the smackdown so that I might put
them together into a small notebook to share with ALL the entrants.<span> </span>However, in the full knowledge that many
people do not finish their poems until the last minute (and I include myself in
this list) it is NOT a requirement that you send me your poems first.<span> </span>You can show up the day of the smackdown with
your poems written on (unused) toilet paper and you shall still be heartily
welcome.<span> </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Any questions, concerns, or dirty
limericks should be addressed directly to me, your humble moderator.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif">Master Dunstan
leHeryngmongere,<span> </span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif"><a href="mailto:rangernealson@aol.com" target="_blank">rangernealson@aol.com</a></span></div></font></div>
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