COVID-19 announcement
All three chapters have suspended regular monthly meetings until further notice in accordance with regional COVID-19 safety measures.
The following Poetry Society of Tennessee (PST) news items include regular monthly updates as well as makes notes of special events over the last 12 months. Looking for something further back? Contact us! We'll be happy to provide some additional information!
Note that contest winners are identified in each month's news. Important forms may be found here.
May 2021
The 65th Annual Poetry Festival Contest Brochure is now available! Click here for a full PDF brochure. The contest is open to both members and non-members. Please see contest rules and specific contests for specific eligibility requirements. The contest deadline is (postmarked by) August 6, 2021. For more information, please see our Annual Festival and Contest Page.
PST invites anyone who wants to be a patron of the society to submit a donation; we will honor all patrons in our Anthology, Tennessee Voices, as well as at our annual Festival in October. Individuals or businesses can be patrons; we offer multiple levels of patronage. Click here for a PST Patron Donation Form (pdf file) or PST Patron Donation Form (word version).
Reminder to all members that membership forms are due no later than May 1. A membership form can be downloaded here-PDF version and here-Word version Please print one out and mail it in; we request that all members complete this form annually so we can update our membership lists. For more details, see our Membership page. Please turn forms in to your local chapter; at-large members, please submit forms to West Tennessee.
Reminder that NFSPS Convention registration is now open! Click here for a registration form. Registration is due June 1; the virtual convention is June 10-13.
March/April 2021
Congratulations to our Student Contest winners! Results may be found here!
Sponsorships now needed for the 2021 Festival Contest! Click for a sponsorship form-PDF version or sponsorship form-Word version. Deadline for sponsorships extended to April 15!!!
Interested in volunteering on the Festival Contest Committee? We need volunteers to: review rules, prepare brochures, help with publicity, and more! Contact Lori if you are interested in volunteering.
Janet Qually has announced the winner the March Tennessee Resident Contest. Congratulations to Wesley Sims, member of the Knoxville Chapter, for his poem, “Shadowbox of Night.” Wesley’s poem will be included in our anthology, Tennessee Voices.
February 2021
February 2021 News
February 2021 PST Executive Committee (Board) Meeting Minutes
February 2021 PST Executive Committee News and Announcements
Announcing a special contest!!! Janet Qually has announced a Tennessee-resident challenge. This contest is open to all residents of Tennessee, click here for more information.
January 2021
January 2021 News
During PST-West Tennessee's meeting on 1/2, we had a presentation about common errors encountered when submitting to contests -- including our monthly contests, our annual Festival Contests, and even NFSPS' annual National Contests. For a copy of the presentation, click here. Please note that problems with your submission can result in your disqualification...so please be very careful when preparing your poems for any contest!!!
We have scheduled our online poetry readings for January-May. These will be 7-8:30 Central time on the following dates:
All are invited (members and non-members). Please contact us if you would like to receive a Google Meet link. Plan on having several poems ready to share!
New edition of NFSPS' Strophes available here.
December 2020
December News
The 2019/2020 PST anthology Tennessee Voices is available for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Books-a-Million. First-place winners from our monthly, student, and festival contests are included, as well as select poems from PST Patrons. See our Publications Page for links to all three online vendors. Many thanks to our Anthology Committee (Rose Klix, Janet Qually, Matthew Gilbert, and Pamela Watson) for all of their hard work.
November 2020
November News
West Tennessee discussed technical information about NFSPS's BlackBerry Peach Prize. BBP info here; link to NFSPS BBP contest information here.
October 2020
Announcing our 2020 Poet Laureate, Gretchen McCroskey, of PST-Northeast! Calvin Ross, PST-NE President, Rose Klix, Founder of PST-NE and PST Liaison, and the PST-NE leadership team made the presentation at their September 26, 2020 meeting; our Poet Laureate was announced to our wider membership at our Virtual Festival. Click here for more!
PST held its 64th Annual Festival on October 24th Virtually; see our Festival page for additional details.
October Reminders
September 2020
September 2020 news
September 2020 Board Meeting
June-July -August 2020
Many of our members are on "summer break". Check with chapter news for specifics on meeting information. Remember that physical, in-person meetings and readings have been suspended due to COVID-19. Chapters will be scheduling virtual/online meetings for the foreseeable future.
Summer news:
July News
All three chapters have suspended regular monthly meetings until further notice in accordance with regional COVID-19 safety measures.
The following Poetry Society of Tennessee (PST) news items include regular monthly updates as well as makes notes of special events over the last 12 months. Looking for something further back? Contact us! We'll be happy to provide some additional information!
Note that contest winners are identified in each month's news. Important forms may be found here.
May 2021
The 65th Annual Poetry Festival Contest Brochure is now available! Click here for a full PDF brochure. The contest is open to both members and non-members. Please see contest rules and specific contests for specific eligibility requirements. The contest deadline is (postmarked by) August 6, 2021. For more information, please see our Annual Festival and Contest Page.
PST invites anyone who wants to be a patron of the society to submit a donation; we will honor all patrons in our Anthology, Tennessee Voices, as well as at our annual Festival in October. Individuals or businesses can be patrons; we offer multiple levels of patronage. Click here for a PST Patron Donation Form (pdf file) or PST Patron Donation Form (word version).
Reminder to all members that membership forms are due no later than May 1. A membership form can be downloaded here-PDF version and here-Word version Please print one out and mail it in; we request that all members complete this form annually so we can update our membership lists. For more details, see our Membership page. Please turn forms in to your local chapter; at-large members, please submit forms to West Tennessee.
Reminder that NFSPS Convention registration is now open! Click here for a registration form. Registration is due June 1; the virtual convention is June 10-13.
March/April 2021
Congratulations to our Student Contest winners! Results may be found here!
Sponsorships now needed for the 2021 Festival Contest! Click for a sponsorship form-PDF version or sponsorship form-Word version. Deadline for sponsorships extended to April 15!!!
Interested in volunteering on the Festival Contest Committee? We need volunteers to: review rules, prepare brochures, help with publicity, and more! Contact Lori if you are interested in volunteering.
Janet Qually has announced the winner the March Tennessee Resident Contest. Congratulations to Wesley Sims, member of the Knoxville Chapter, for his poem, “Shadowbox of Night.” Wesley’s poem will be included in our anthology, Tennessee Voices.
February 2021
February 2021 News
February 2021 PST Executive Committee (Board) Meeting Minutes
February 2021 PST Executive Committee News and Announcements
Announcing a special contest!!! Janet Qually has announced a Tennessee-resident challenge. This contest is open to all residents of Tennessee, click here for more information.
January 2021
January 2021 News
During PST-West Tennessee's meeting on 1/2, we had a presentation about common errors encountered when submitting to contests -- including our monthly contests, our annual Festival Contests, and even NFSPS' annual National Contests. For a copy of the presentation, click here. Please note that problems with your submission can result in your disqualification...so please be very careful when preparing your poems for any contest!!!
We have scheduled our online poetry readings for January-May. These will be 7-8:30 Central time on the following dates:
- January 21
- February 18
- March 18
- April 15
- May 13
All are invited (members and non-members). Please contact us if you would like to receive a Google Meet link. Plan on having several poems ready to share!
New edition of NFSPS' Strophes available here.
December 2020
December News
The 2019/2020 PST anthology Tennessee Voices is available for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Books-a-Million. First-place winners from our monthly, student, and festival contests are included, as well as select poems from PST Patrons. See our Publications Page for links to all three online vendors. Many thanks to our Anthology Committee (Rose Klix, Janet Qually, Matthew Gilbert, and Pamela Watson) for all of their hard work.
November 2020
November News
West Tennessee discussed technical information about NFSPS's BlackBerry Peach Prize. BBP info here; link to NFSPS BBP contest information here.
October 2020
Announcing our 2020 Poet Laureate, Gretchen McCroskey, of PST-Northeast! Calvin Ross, PST-NE President, Rose Klix, Founder of PST-NE and PST Liaison, and the PST-NE leadership team made the presentation at their September 26, 2020 meeting; our Poet Laureate was announced to our wider membership at our Virtual Festival. Click here for more!
PST held its 64th Annual Festival on October 24th Virtually; see our Festival page for additional details.
October Reminders
September 2020
September 2020 news
September 2020 Board Meeting
June-July -August 2020
Many of our members are on "summer break". Check with chapter news for specifics on meeting information. Remember that physical, in-person meetings and readings have been suspended due to COVID-19. Chapters will be scheduling virtual/online meetings for the foreseeable future.
Summer news:
July News
