[MR] Poetry competition for Novice-Challenge

[sca_bard at yahoo.com]

Poeta Atlantiae will be sponsoring a contest for novice poets at the Storvik/Dun Carriag combined Novice Tournament/Challenge of the Heart event, to encourage those new to the art.  Most of us have written poetry at some point in our lives, even if only upon threat of failing English Lit.  So please feel free to consider yourself a novice if you have *practiced* the art of poetry for less than a year.  If you've only ever done poetry because it was required, or your last voluntary efforts were during your "bohemian phase" in high school *coughcough* years ago, please consider yourself a novice and enter.

Judging will be as follows:

Quality of construction (regular meter, rhyme, etc): 10
Good use of imagery, overall style: 10
SCA appropriateness: 10
Documentation of period form: 5
Judge's discretion: 5

Prize to be a copy of "Through a Glass Window Shines the Sun," a collection of medieval poetry, and a copy of Compleat Anachronist 67, "Ars Poetica Societatis," a handbook on period poetic forms.

In service,
 - Teleri the Well-Prepared, Poeta Atlantiae