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Gary Blankenship
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Username: garyb

Post Number: 10823
Registered: 07-2001
Posted on Friday, February 09, 2007 - 12:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 1045
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 12:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: ga_sunshine

Post Number: 560
Registered: 06-2006
Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 6:26 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

Gary,

That is awesome! Congratulations!

*Hugs*
GA
Gary Blankenship
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Username: garyb

Post Number: 10825
Registered: 07-2001
Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 7:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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~
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Username: mjm

Post Number: 9609
Registered: 11-1998
Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 1:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: suekay

Post Number: 343
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 2:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: avasouth

Post Number: 1017
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2007 - 4:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: dwillo

Post Number: 116
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Monday, February 12, 2007 - 8:31 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: sandiegopoet

Post Number: 1054
Registered: 05-2006
Posted on Monday, February 12, 2007 - 8:54 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: funnyoldlady

Post Number: 2610
Registered: 06-2006
Posted on Monday, February 12, 2007 - 8:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: garyb

Post Number: 10863
Registered: 07-2001
Posted on Monday, February 12, 2007 - 9:00 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: dwillo

Post Number: 118
Registered: 07-2006
Posted on Monday, February 12, 2007 - 1:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: garyb

Post Number: 10873
Registered: 07-2001
Posted on Monday, February 12, 2007 - 2:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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Username: lazarus

Post Number: 2835
Registered: 10-2005
Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 12:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post

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
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