<div dir="auto">Anyone with connections to Ventura County, submit!<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><font size="1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, </i></font><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Distinguished Professor of </i><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Creative Writing</i></font></div><div><font size="1" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/shop/products/look-at-this-blue" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Look at This Blue </a></i></font></div><div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><i style="font-family:georgia,serif"> Weird Times, Be Kind</i></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(36,36,36)">If this correspondence arrives past your work hours, please do not feel obligated to respond until an appropriate time. </span><span style="font-family:Aptos,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;color:rgb(36,36,36)">Respecting work/life balance is important to me.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif" size="1" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Phil Taggart</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:ptagga@aol.com">ptagga@aol.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM<br>Subject: the Ventura County Poetry Festival poetry contest<br>To: <a href="mailto:vcpoetryproject@gmail.com">vcpoetryproject@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:vcpoetryproject@gmail.com">vcpoetryproject@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div><div id="m_8732400786965643036ydp171d76d8yahoo_quoted_7901287869"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 8px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);color:rgb(38,40,42)"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div id="m_8732400786965643036ydp171d76d8yiv6336143498" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">this information is also in the attachment</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">The Ventura County Poetry Festival is sponsoring a poetry contest. The festival takes place on March 6th – 9<sup style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif">th</sup>, 2025 at Studio Channel Islands in Camarillo. Nationally-known poets, the finest poets from the Central Coast, and even an international poet will be present.</font></div><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.693334px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">Winners of the contest will receive recognition, awards, and the chance to read their poem in the Ventura County Poetry Festival. </font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.693334px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">The theme is “Passages.” Please write a poem about a memory or an experience rooted in a passage. A passage is the act or process of moving through, from one place to another, the stages of an individual’s life, an inflection point or change, a threshold, a liminal state of being </font></p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3" style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)">The poem should be no longer than 35 lines. Your name, contact info, and the title of the poem should appear in the email. The poem including title should be attached without identifying information. Poems must be emailed to<b style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"> </b><a href="mailto:vcpoetryproject@gmail.com" style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif">vcpoetryproject@gmail.com</b></a><b style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif"> </b> at the end of Friday, Feb. 21, 2025.</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42)"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:ii_1946e66716c55377e6d1" style="width:693px;max-width:100%"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:none;color:black"><div style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12pt;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:none;color:black"><div style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><div style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </font><font style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Ventura County Poetry Project</font></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:medium;font-family:"New serif""><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> <a href="http://www.vcpoetryproject.org/" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(149,79,114)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.vcpoetryproject.org</a></span></div></div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal"><div style="font-style:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><font style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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