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THE POETRY ARK

Mission
The Poetry Ark, LLC is based on the simple belief that an engaged public can recognize poems worth saving and remembering. That’s why we have launched a one-year, online competition to select 100 outstanding English-language poems by living authors. After an initial screening by our editors, all other decisions will be based on the votes of you, our site visitors. Poems that make it to the final selection of 100 will be included in an anthology of winners and will automatically qualify for an additional round of voting to determine the recipients of prizes totaling over $2,000.

Submitting and Nominating Poems
The Poetry Ark welcomes the online-only submission of poems by their authors or publishers holding the copyright to them. Poems may also be nominated for inclusion by other than the copyright holders; our editors will make every effort to review them and obtain permission to use them if appropriate.

The Voting Process
Voting will occur in three stages: in a series of Current Rounds, in a Qualifying Round, and in a Prize Round. Current Rounds present collections of 20 poems each. Your votes will advance the four top-scoring poems from each Current Round to a Qualifying Round. There the selected during the Current Rounds will again be voted on, yielding the 100 poems that will be published in the Anthology and compete in the Prize Round.

For more information on the Poetry Ark Anthology, please click here.

For additional competition information and submission rules and regulations, please visit the Poetry Ark Prizes page.

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RESULTS FROM THE 24TH EXISTENTIAL OLYMPICS IN BAYONNE, NEW JERSEY.

BY JONATHAN KAUFMAN NATHAN

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Men’s Downhill Consider A Career Change But Decide Against It Because You Have Job Security

Heavily favored Russian Yuri Sagmatov was disqualified early when he elected to quit his job as a computer systems administrator and go back to school for an MFA in literature. Analysts predict that Sagmatov will return to systems administration, likely in an entry-level position, after two or three lackluster semesters at a low-level accredited university in the Midwest. Sagmatov left the field wide open, and American defending purple medalist Jason McGarrity swooped in to capture gold in the event when he considered leaving his mid-level management position at Midland Bank to open a fly-fishing shop, only to realize that with his heart condition and pre-diabetes, he couldn’t afford to give up his health insurance yet. And if there was any serious doubt about his medal chances, he wrapped it all up with a triple scotch on the rocks and a couple of new gray hairs. McGarrity has been an off-again-on-again alcoholic for the last twenty-seven years.

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