News to aMUSE

Washingtonpost.com has launched a new feature, News to aMUSE, inviting readers to submit odes relating to recent news events. Each Friday the site will post the best poems. "Judging is based on a complex algorithm utilizing whim, star alignment and portions of the Olympic ice-skating point system (please, no lead pipes)."

Week's end approaches, but let us weep not
Though the work week has ended, it won't be forgot
So let's celebrate the sublime and perverse
Of these past few days, through poetic verse

Give us your limericks, your haikus and sonnets
Your Seussian babble and off-rhyming couplets
Submit your odes by Friday at 4
We'll post all the best (the rest we'll ignore)

But first a few rules to lend us some cred
If not news-related, your ode won't be read
So study the headlines, columns and briefs
Newsmakers, pundits, commanders-in-chief
Get the idea? Relate to the news...
Make your rhyme sing and we'll be sure to use

Jan 27, 2005 | E-MAIL | SAVE | PRINT | PERMALINK | DISCUSS(2)

Discussion

2 comments about 'News to aMUSE'

What is the exact email address for submitting poetry to this new column. I have been trying to email a poem without success. Thank you, arbra Justice

Posted by Barbra Justice at February 2, 2005 5:42 AM

It is impossible for me to get to your web site to submit something to News to AMUSE. Any suggestions?

Posted by Ron Peterson at April 15, 2005 11:21 AM

Post a comment

Name:

Email Address (will not be published):

Comment on "'News to aMUSE'":


Security code:     Enter code to post:

Trackbacks

TrackBack URL:   http://www.cyberjournalist.net/cgi-bin/mt-tab.cgi/523

1 Weblogs reference 'News to aMUSE'

feeder
Trackback excerpt:   feeder [Read More]

Posted on feeder at April 11, 2006 2:59 AM

Site Map