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 monthly members-only contest winners are identified on our contest page. Important forms may be found here.
NFSPS 2022 Annual Contest
NFSPS has posted its annual contest information. Click here for a link to the NFSPS contest webpage. Note that NFSPS contests are due (postmarked by) 3/15/22. Many of these contests are "members only" -- which mean they require membership in a state society to enter. If you are not a member, please join us today -- see our Membership Page.
Virtual Festival Announcement #2
Our Virtual Festival was held on October 9. Many thanks to our workshop leader, Jeff Hardin, Professor of English at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, TN, who presented on apostrophe/address poems. A very sincere thank you as well to our fearless Festival Coordinator, Howard Carman, Jr. We had over 40 register to participate, and over 30 attend Jeff's Workshop and the subsequent announcement of Contest Winners! Please see our Festival Contest page for the winners of our 65th Annual Festival Contest.
Virtual Festival Announcement
The Poetry Society of Tennessee's 65th Annual Festival will be held by Zoom teleconference on Saturday, October 9, beginning at 1:00 pm Central Daylight Time (2:00 pm EDT). Attendance will be free of charge again this year, but registration will be required. Please spread the word! Jeff Hardin of Columbia State Community College will be our workshop leader, speaking on apostrophe/address poems.
July & August
August PST Executive Committee (Board) Meeting Minutes
July PST Executive Committee (Board) Meeting Minutes
Reminder that the current and pass issues of NFSPS' Strophes are available online 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).
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!!!
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
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 monthly members-only contest winners are identified on our contest page. Important forms may be found here.
NFSPS 2022 Annual Contest
NFSPS has posted its annual contest information. Click here for a link to the NFSPS contest webpage. Note that NFSPS contests are due (postmarked by) 3/15/22. Many of these contests are "members only" -- which mean they require membership in a state society to enter. If you are not a member, please join us today -- see our Membership Page.
Virtual Festival Announcement #2
Our Virtual Festival was held on October 9. Many thanks to our workshop leader, Jeff Hardin, Professor of English at Columbia State Community College in Columbia, TN, who presented on apostrophe/address poems. A very sincere thank you as well to our fearless Festival Coordinator, Howard Carman, Jr. We had over 40 register to participate, and over 30 attend Jeff's Workshop and the subsequent announcement of Contest Winners! Please see our Festival Contest page for the winners of our 65th Annual Festival Contest.
Virtual Festival Announcement
The Poetry Society of Tennessee's 65th Annual Festival will be held by Zoom teleconference on Saturday, October 9, beginning at 1:00 pm Central Daylight Time (2:00 pm EDT). Attendance will be free of charge again this year, but registration will be required. Please spread the word! Jeff Hardin of Columbia State Community College will be our workshop leader, speaking on apostrophe/address poems.
July & August
August PST Executive Committee (Board) Meeting Minutes
July PST Executive Committee (Board) Meeting Minutes
Reminder that the current and pass issues of NFSPS' Strophes are available online 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).
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!!!
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
