Poetry Month 2024: Anne Bradstreet Poetry Contest

In honor of Anne Bradstreet, the North Andover Poet Laureate Committee is announcing the 4th annual Anne Bradstreet Poetry Contest!

2024 theme is Words Changing Worlds with the Help of You!

Throughout history, poets have lived on the leading edge of revolutions. From Percy Shelley and William Blake to Walt Whitman and Maya Angelou, poets have found in their voices the power to inspire change in society, capturing the minds and hearts of individuals and communities around the world with passion for positive change and hope for better days. Whether via stanza, lyric, or epic, rhyming or unrhymed verse, poets have demonstrated that words can be not only powerful vessels for meaning in our personal lives, but incisive engines for greater good as well as greater ill in the world around us.

Click here for a full list of rules and other details on the contest!

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR POEM

Email to: annebradstreetpoetrycontest@gmail.com

• Subject: Age Category (Grade K-2, Grade 3-5, middle school, high school, adult)
• Body: your name, email address, mailing address, age category, poem
• If sending an attached document, include the name and other information in each document
• Those without email address, ask an adult in the household with email to submit