[New-Poetry] Nominations Open For 2008 Poet Laureate of The Blogosphere

[amy king]

>From Billy Jones:



I'm pleased to announce that BloggingPoet.com will againhost the Poet Laureate Of The Blogosphere Election for the 4th year in a rowwith nominations beginning April 1, 2008. The Poet Laureate of the Blogosphereis the only laureateship chosen by readers.
 
Previous winners are Amy King, Ron Silliman and Jilly Dybka.
 
Rules for 2008 are as follows:
1. Those nominated must have a history of posting poetry totheir blogs for a period of no less than 1 year prior to March 1, 2008.
2. Anyone can nominate their favorite poetry blogger.
3. Nominations will begin on April 1st and will end on April20th.
4. Voting will begin on April 21st and will end at !2:00midnight on April 29th.
5. The winner will be announced on April 30th.
6. As in years past, Billy Jones, aka. Billy The BloggingPoet, aka. me, will not be nominated as I am hosting the event.
7. English language only as I'm too dumb to know a poem inany other language.
8. Previous winners cannot be nominated.
9. Like it or not, all decisions by the judge (That would beme.) arefinal.
10. All nominations must be made in the form provided on
April 1st. E-mail, write-ins, protests and other means to nominate will not be
accepted.
 
http://bloggingpoet.squarespace.com/bloggingpoetcom/nominations-to-begin-for-2008-poet-laureate-of-the-blogosphe.html
 
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