This year will be the second annual Sidewalk Poetry Contest run by Mead Library! Up to three poems will be stamped into the sidewalks around the city (three poems were stamped into the sidewalk in front of Mead last year, so take a look if you’re in the area!). More information/entry information can be found here, deadline January 2: https://www.meadpl.org/sidewalk-poetry
And like last year, I will be running a Sidewalk Poetry Workshop in December (this Saturday, the 9th, in fact – 10am-11am!). It’s a partnership between Mead Library and WordHaven BookHouse, which is where it will be held: https://www.kellydholstine.com/new-events/sidewalk-poetry-workshop-w-anneliese-finke
Full disclosure, I work at Mead Library; however, I am not involved in the sidewalk poetry program itself. I will not be viewing or judging entries (and, in fact, will probably enter myself).
The workshop will be about extremely short form poetry, and in it we will work on generating such poems as well as talk about further cutting. The length limits for the sidewalk poems are very strict: Poems must fit within a maximum of ten lines, including any title and stanza breaks; have no more than 35 characters per line, including punctuation and spaces; and have no more than 225 characters overall, including punctuation and spaces.
