Poetry Contest

2009 Poetry Issue

From Wake Forest to Saxapahaw and points in between, Indy readers honed their writing implements and put their inchoate thoughts, feelings and impulses into alphanumeric characters.

25 Feb 2009

2008 Poetry Issue

In reading these poems, one may notice the persistent theme of music.

19 Mar 2008

2007 Poetry Issue

Although the material rewards are few—ask Emily Dickinson in the Great Coffeehouse in the Sky how much she earned for her labors—humans from the earliest dawnings of language have sought to make art with words.

25 Apr 2007

2006 Poetry Issue

I'll be the first to admit it: My taste in poetry is, on one level, very traditional: If the poem isn't musical, if there is no logic to the line breaks, a beat or a rhythm or a palette of sound color that is being played with, it won't appeal to me.

By Andrea Selch | 12 Apr 2006