| Author | Message | ||
| Gary Blankenship
Senior Member Username: garyb Post Number: 10823 Registered: 07-2001 |
An editor of the extinct MindFire won $1000 here. The most cash I've seen given... All you prize/award winners should look for 2007 http://dorothyprizes.org/2006awards.htm http://dorothyprizes.org/DorothySargentRosenbergPoetryPrizes.htm Smiles. Gary A River Transformed The Dawg House January 2007 and last FireWeed | ||
| Fred Longworth
Advanced Member Username: sandiegopoet Post Number: 1045 Registered: 05-2006 |
Gary, that means that if you and I add our ages together, we would qualify for THREE entries plus an epigram. Drat! Fred | ||
| GA Sunshine
Intermediate Member Username: ga_sunshine Post Number: 560 Registered: 06-2006 |
Gary, That is awesome! Congratulations! *Hugs* GA | ||
| Gary Blankenship
Senior Member Username: garyb Post Number: 10825 Registered: 07-2001 |
GA, wasn't me, but thanks. Fred, it's strange that the most productive, creative historically might be under 30. So where's the same amount for us old codgers. Smiles. Gary A River Transformed The Dawg House January 2007 and last FireWeed | ||
| ~M~
Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 9609 Registered: 11-1998 |
Count me as another considered too doddering to enter this contest. *sigh* Ah, well -- here are some late bloomers who should make us senile citizens feel a little better: ~ Grandma Moses’ painting career began in her seventies because of arthritis. ~ Colonel Sanders began his restaurant franchise in his sixties. ~ Joshua Millner of Britain was 61 when he won his Olympic gold medal in Free rifle, 1000 yards. ~ Zelda Rubinstein was 48 before she had her first role, a minor part in Under the Rainbow, but is more known for her "debut" in the Poltergeist film series starting the following year. ~ Singer K. T. Oslin released her first album at age 47 which was a major country music success. ~ Marjory Stoneman Douglass’ first environmental work of note occurred when she was almost 60, at 78 she founded "Friends of the Everglades", and she continued until she was over age 100. ~ A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founded the Hare Krishna movement in 1966 at the age of 70. ~ Charles Bukowski did not publish his first novel until age 49 after a lengthy career working odd jobs and then at a post office. ~ Richard Adams's first novel, the bestseller Watership Down, was published when he was in his fifties. ~ Children's author Mary Alice Fontenot wrote her first book at 51 and wrote almost thirty additional books, publishing multiple volumes in her eighties and nineties. ~ The Marquis de Sade didn't publish his first novel, Justine, until he was 51. ~ Raymond Chandler published his first short story at 45, and his first novel, The Big Sleep, at 51. Ha! Love, M | ||
| sue kay
Intermediate Member Username: suekay Post Number: 343 Registered: 11-2005 |
Ah, I had the same thought, about being a geezer and ineligible, till I read M's list. Truly inspiring. Thank you M. regards sue | ||
| Ava South
Advanced Member Username: avasouth Post Number: 1017 Registered: 05-2006 |
I started out at a very young age, had to put it aside for one reason or another, got back to it, quit again, etc. All this stopping and starting wasn't good at all. Now this ol geezerette is back and trying to redeem those wasted years. I know I won't live long enough to write it all... ~sigh~ Ava | ||
| Will Eastland
Valued Member Username: dwillo Post Number: 116 Registered: 07-2006 |
This topic has been very much on my mind. I am approaching 40, and alternately feel like my best creative moments are behind me or the best is yet to come. At any rate, there is a significant "Geezer Prize" out there for anyone who has never published a collections. Read about it at: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/Emily_Dickinson.html EDIT: I should clarify that I count myself among the geezers as I consider 36 pretty late in life to begin pursuing writing as seriously as I have. Although, I just now noticed those prizes are open to those under 40 . . . (Message edited by dwillo on February 12, 2007) Take these dreams and lay them to rest in a quiet room in their Sunday best. | ||
| Fred Longworth
Advanced Member Username: sandiegopoet Post Number: 1054 Registered: 05-2006 |
Will, the first thing to overcome is the silly myth that later in life you can't complete a (Message edited by sandiegopoet on February 12, 2007) | ||
| penny
Senior Member Username: funnyoldlady Post Number: 2610 Registered: 06-2006 |
Congrats, Gary to whomever it was, and thanks M and Will for today's inspiration! penny (-:= Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain. | ||
| Gary Blankenship
Senior Member Username: garyb Post Number: 10863 Registered: 07-2001 |
I like the way you have rhymed our verse out of respect to your Frost quotation.Peter They saved us amateurs with a 300 copy limit for chapbooks.... Do you suppose an Emily prize means a certain style? Smiles. Gary A River Transformed The Dawg House January 2007 and last FireWeed | ||
| Will Eastland
Valued Member Username: dwillo Post Number: 118 Registered: 07-2006 |
This is probably a dumb question, but who is Peter and where did I miss the frost Quotation? I don't think that the Dickinson prize goes only to certain styles. That foundation has high appreciation for modern verse, near as I can tell. Fred- lol! Take these dreams and lay them to rest in a quiet room in their Sunday best. | ||
| Gary Blankenship
Senior Member Username: garyb Post Number: 10873 Registered: 07-2001 |
Peter, was a Dawg's mistake...and the quotation is in my New Hampshire poem down in light crit... Smiles. Gary A River Transformed The Dawg House January 2007 and last FireWeed | ||
| Lazarus
Senior Member Username: lazarus Post Number: 2835 Registered: 10-2005 |
Boy! I should have scrolled down further before spending my afternoon engrossed in the winning poems and reading Dorothy Sargent's poems. I can write lyrical and joyful poems, but now I find I am too old to enter. "When I sense an electrical charge around a person, event, or place I know there's a poem in it" ~ Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge Poetspennies eBay Window |
