<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Katherine Hawkins via Announce</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:announce@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">announce@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 4:57 PM<br>Subject: [Atlantia-Announce] Gyrth Oldcastle Memorial Smackdown<br>To: Atlantia Announcements <<a href="mailto:announce@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">announce@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a>>, Merry Rose <<a href="mailto:atlantia@atlantia.sca.org">atlantia@atlantia.sca.org</a>>, Bright Hills <<a href="mailto:brighthills@yahoogroups.com">brighthills@yahoogroups.com</a>><br><br><br><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span></span></div><div></div><div> </div><div><font><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"><var></var></font> We just had the Smackdown at Kingdom Arts and <br> Sciences and it was great fun! I begged and so<br> was voted to conduct the next smackdown in 2015. <br> I was tasked to get the requirements out early. <br> Is this early enough? I came home with great<br> enthusiasm and so here are the poems requested for<br> the Gyrth Oldcastle Memorial Smackdown next <br> year. We would like you to bring them all but will<br> not turn you away if you only have
one.<br> <br> It is not too early to start thinking about your poems for the Smackdown at KASF. Remember this is done in good fun. There is no pressure. It is a good place for novices and others who may wish to start performing their poetry to come and recite. Your poems can be read. Please remember you do not need to write a poem in each category. It is optional. You may write one or more poems at your discretion. Again, the object here is to have fun!<br> <br> Your Entry Fee - Write one period poem of any <br> length placing Gyrth Oldcastle as the hero in a <br> folktale. Adapt any folktale or make up your own <br> based on his life, and make him the hero -- with<br> his words, with his wit, with his deeds, with<br> his cunning or with his love.
This challenge<br> is designed so that those who did not know Gyrth can<br> put him in any story and those who did know Gyrth<br> can tell us about him.<br> <br> One Slam Poem and One Praise Poem - Write two<br> poems in any medieval style of your choosing –<br>one should praise an inanimate object (a rock, a<br> spoon, a wall, etc.) or insect (flea, bee, cricket, etc.) and<br> the other should slam an inanimate object or<br> insect. Don’t tell what the object or insect is<br>– we must guess from your poem.<br> <br> One Poem of the Writer’s Choice - Give us a poem <br> on any subject, event or person of your choice <br> written in a medieval genre.<br> <br> Please be prepared to give us a sentence or
two <br> explaining the style of your poem.</div><div><br></div><div>Yours in poetry,</div><div><br></div><div>Lady Katarzyna Witkowska</div><div>443-813-1436<br> </div></font></div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"> </font></div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 12pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history." ~Plato, <i>Ion</i></span></div><font face="Times New Roman"></font></div></font></div><div><font></font></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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