[MR] Belated News from Your Poeta

[Deep Fat Friar]

Greetings to all whom these words reach. Please cross-post them to all
lists in the Kingdom which poets and other artists might frequent.

It is long past time that I write to you again. I had intended to do so
in the September Acorn, but I missed the submission deadline by a wide
margin. 

I offer my profuse thanks to the Lady Tehair, who preceded me in this
Office, for managing the seemingly endless work of the Known World
Poetic Challenge at this past Pennsic. That work now seems finished at
last. The prizes were awarded, and participation was unusually high. The
winner in the challenge category was one Lady Belaye of Eldormere.
Should I receive the manuscripts of the winners and their permission to
do so, I will add them to the Poeta Atlantiae website.

The time has come to choose my replacement. This was announced in the
August Acorn, and should be announced again in the October addition. The
deadline to enter the competition to be the next Poeta Atlantiae is
October 25. You can submit entries to me by email, snail mail, or by
hand, directly or indirectly. Entries must be in my hands by the
deadline to ensure consideration. The only thing you need to do is get
to me two original, unpublished poems in period form. If they are in a
form I am not familiar with or a language I am not fluent in, I reserve
the right to request supplemental documentation and/or translation.
Documentation with the original submission is highly encouraged but not
required. After Their Majesties and I review the submissions, I will
make a recommendation to Them, and They will choose, as is Their right.
Their Majesties intend as of this writing to name Their next Poeta
Atlantiae at Their Crown Tourney in November. The winner, I think, need
not be present, but it sure would be nice.  So far as I know, there are
no official duties of the office. It is, like the rest of the current
Middle Ages, what you make of it. I have had a lot of quiet, and
occasionally noisy, fun.

Your servant,
Thomas Broadpaunch
By Their Majesties' Grace, Poeta Atlantiae