Attention Southern poets.
Express your Southern self this Valentine’s Day, with the language of love. Preferably in rhymed tetrameter.
Not only will you impress your significant other, you could win some extra spending cash for that big date.
The downtown restaurant White Oak Kitchen & Cocktails is sponsoring another edition of its Valentine's Day poetry competition, and encouraging us to heed the muse Calliope.
The contest is open to any amateur poet residing in Georgia (or Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, or West Virginia). No newcomers please: You must have lived there for 12 months.
There is a $1,500 prize, and the winner’s poem will be featured on the restaurant’s Valentine’s Day menu, Feb. 14-15.
Each year there is a chosen topic for the contest. The first topic was “love,” followed by “nature,” “faith” and “wisdom.”
This year’s topic is “shared spirit.” The poems must be submitted no later than Friday, Feb. 7.
Entries will be judged by James Smith, professor of literature at Georgia Southern University.
As usual, the submissions will become property of White Oak. For additional information about the contest, go to whiteoakkitchen.com/poetry
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