Contest: Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes

• Prizes ranging from $1,000 up to as much as $25,000 will be awarded for the finest lyric poems celebrating the human spirit.

• Entrants must be under the age of 40 on November 6, 2009.

• The contest is open to all writers, published or unpublished.

• Winners may continue to enter until their prizes total in excess of $25,000.

• Submissions must be in English: no translations, please.

• Each entrant may submit one to three separate poems.

• Only one of the poems may be more than thirty lines in length.

• All poems must be original and previously unpublished.

• Deadline: Entries must be postmarked on or before October 17, the third Saturday in October, 2009.