"I think that I shall never see..."
The goal: Write a poem about baseball, the Grasshoppers and First Horizon Park
Prize: Tickets to the homeopener of the Grasshoppers
Number of submissions: 228
Look on the faces of the contest judges when they saw the stacks of poems: Priceless
We asked you to Take a Swing at Poetry and, boy, did you ever. 228 entries is by far more than any other contest we've sponsored recently. Decorate Martha Stewart's Cell attracted 125.
Features editor Susan Ladd: "People decorated their entries with stickers and drawings. One came scribbled on the back of an invoice. One did his poem in the shape of a baseball, another came in the shape of a baseball diamond. One woman sent in clippings of a long-ago Little League team, and others attached notes about their favorite baseball memories. In addition to Canterbury School, which produced two runners-up, classes at Stokesdale Elementary, Greensboro Academy, Kiser Middle School and B'Nai Shalom Day School were among the schools that submitted entries."
Because of the number, we haven't gotten them all online yet, but we're working on it.
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I can empathize with your judges as I'm running a children's poetry contest at my other blog: LaureatesKids.com
One child forget her name but thankfully it was on the outside of the envelope. Some even forget return addresses so if I were to pick them I wouldn't know where to send the prize.
And while there are so many good ones that it's hard to pick a winner, there are so many bad ones that it becomes a chore.
Posted on April 9, 2005 3:31 PM
Thanks for visiting, Billy. I almost referred to you in the original post, but I couldn't think of a clever way to do it.
Posted on April 9, 2005 6:31 PM