Call for Submissions: The Mayor's Poetry Program at Boston City Hall

Along with its rich literary history, Boston is also home to many talented contemporary writers. In honor of the diverse and creative village we call Boston, the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture will display selected poems on the walls of city hall. Poets who reside or work in Boston are invited to send in work to help celebrate the city through poetry and to remind people of what a culturally exciting city Boston is to live and work in.
A public reading hosted by Boston's Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges will take place to highlight the selected poems the last week in April. 
This year’s theme is Boston's Diverse Neighborhoods.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 14, 2018

Selection Process:
Poet and Professor Kathi Aguero will select 18 poems based on strength of content and style.

Please submit the following in one document:

• Up to 3 poems (each poem 200 words or fewer) 
• A brief bio (no longer than a paragraph)

For more information, contact:
John Crowley, Curator/Exhibitions Coordinator
Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture
Boston City Hall, Room 802
Boston, Massachusetts 02201
Phone: 617/635-2368   Fax: 617/635-1850

The Mayor's Poetry Program at Boston City Hall is Open to Submissions Again

Danielle Legros Georges, Boston Poet Laureate, is involved with this, so you know it's going to be good. 

I've been part of this a couple of times. I going to try again.

Read more about the event via its Submittable page. 

You have until March 20 to submit. 

Home Stretch

Still Time to Submit to This

The deadline is this Sunday.

 

Call for Submissions: The Mayor's Poetry Program at Boston City Hall

The call is out. I'm glad it's still happening in light of Boston's new mayor and new poet laureate. Thanks to DiDi Delgado for helping get the information out.

I've been accepted a couple of times.  It will be interesting to look back and see if I have anything suitable for submission.  If not, it will be more interesting to see if I can write something suitable by March.

New Interview

Check out my interview with  Boston Cares about my work being selected for the Mayor's Prose and Poetry and Program. My interview is just one of a series of stories of people making good in reaction to the Marathon bombings.  I heard what's coming down the pipe as far as stories go, and believe me, there are people way cooler than me on this list that I'll be excited to read about. Thanks, Boston Cares, for letting me start off things. 

The Mayor's Prose & Poetry Selections, April 2014

Greetings Boston Writers and Poets, here are the latest winners for the April installment of The Mayor’s Prose & Poetry Program focusing on the Marathon tragedy of last year. One or two poems from each poet were chosen by the Poet Laureate Sam Cornish. The chosen poems will be printed and hung in various locations around Boston City Hall very soon and an opening reading and reception will take place sometime after April 22nd. Congratulations to the winners and keep an eye out for the next Call for Poetry from the Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism and Special Events and the City of Boston.


Alexis Ivy / From My Fire Eascape

Chad Parenteau / Mom at the Marathon

Lisa Fay / The Noise of Terror

Linda Carney Goodrich / Pleasure Bay

Michael Burke II / In April Boston roads turn pale

Holly Guran / To Cleanse

Holly Guran / A Hot Wind Blows

Dorothy E. Morris / Elegy

Jason Wright / Strong as Boston Skyline

Jane Jacobson / Buxton to Boston

Louisa Clerici / The Photographer’s Marathon

Carol Masshardt / September in Boston, 2013

Kurt Cole Eidsvig / The Rainest June & The Hottest July (excerpt)

 and 9th grader Kevin Downing! / Death is in the Field Today


Special THANKS go out  to Poet Laureate Sam Cornish for the time and effort he has invested over the last several years on the Mayor’s Prose & Poetry Program. He was a conscientious and learned juror, choosing poems for numerous installments of Poetry on the walls of Boston City Hall. Thank you Sam and thank you all for participating in this artistic process!

--
John Crowley
Curator/Exhibitions Coordinator

Wow

Found out a few hours ago that my poem "Mom at The Marathon" was selected for The Mayor's Prose & Poetry Program this April, which focuses on all the Boston Marathon tragedy of last  year.  I'll post the official press release.