Email libgeolGeosciences Library Poetry Contest
Feeling Creative ?
Are your thoughts Poetic ?
Are you inspired by Nature ?
If so, enter the
Geosciences Library Poetry Contest!
It’s easy to enter:
· Write a poem about any topic in the geosciences (Geology, Geography, and Atmospheric Sciences) in any style you choose. Be creative! (And keep it “family-friendly,” please.)
· Grab our entry form from the "Poetry of the Geosciences" display in the lobby in front of the Geosciences Library. Fill it out and attach it to your masterpiece.
· Drop the poem and the entry form off at the circulation desk inside the Geosciences Library.
Entries are due by March 10th.
Works will be judged by an impartial anonymous party to win prizes, including poetry books and other goodies.
Winners will be announced at a poetry reading on March 26th in the Geosciences Library. All are welcome to join us for refreshments, awards, and fun.
Example poems with Geosciences themes:
· Ode to a Trilobite (Timothy A. Conrad, 1840)
· The Plume Soliloquy (Or, if Shakespeare were a Geologist…)
· Limericks on Atmospheric Science, from the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form
· Limericks on Geography, from the Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form
· Spirit that Form’d This Scene (Walt Whitman)
· Volcano poetry by Emily Dickinson:
o On my volcano grows the grass
o I have never seen “Volcanoes”
