2022 DRAFT – Student Poetry Contest webpage until 2023 exhib opens

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Call for High School Student Poetry
The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, organizer of an annual student poetry contest, joins forces with the Woodson Art Museum, inviting high school students to participate in a statewide ekphrastic poetry competition. Students will write and submit poems inspired by artwork images from the Woodson Art Museum’s collection; see artwork images below. Entries accepted October 1 through January 15, 2023. An installation of the winning poems and collection artworks will follow during April’s National Poetry Month. For additional information and entry guidelines, check the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets student contests webpage: www.wfop.org/student-contests.

Three white birds fly in the foreground above turquoise water and several islands in the background

Millard Sheets, Enchanted Island, 1978, acrylic on canvas

A large black bird faces a person reaching toward the bird. Both are above a person lying on their back with a green plant sprouting from the midsection; all are on an orange and black background

Leonora Carrington, The Saints of Hampstead Heath, 1997, oil and gold leaf on canvas board

Stowe Wengenroth, House at Port Clyde, 1938, lithograph

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