6-19-12: Suburban Myths

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Virginia Crawford and Sam Schmidt are Baltimore-based poets...and husband and wife.

They’ve each published books recently.  Sam Schmidt’s first volume of poetry is called Suburban Myths.  Virginia Crawford is an Artist-in-Residence with the Maryland State Arts Council, and she and Laura Shovan have co-edited Voices Fly: An Anthology of Exercises and Poems.

Suburban Myths is published by Beothuk Books, and Voices Fly is published by Baltimore's CityLit Press in conjunction with the MSAC.

If you are a senior citizen and you write poetry, Baltimore City is sponsoring a poetry contest you may want to enter.  The deadline for entries is June 30. They used to do this annually during the Schaefer administration, and it’s being revived this year.  You have to be a Baltimore City resident.  You have to be at least 60 years old.  You can submit one unpublished, original poem.  It has to be typed and it can’t be longer than 30 lines. It doesn’t have to rhyme.  There is no fee to enter.  More information at the Baltimore City government website.