#98 Texas Shores
ASSIGNMENT PURPOSE
For this assignment, compose in the special language materials and emotional power of poetry a new and original poem on any topic related to Texas shores.
Thanks to Vincent Hostak for this suggestion and the following information.
Texas sits against nearly 600,000 square miles of ocean in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest gulf on the planet.
It has 367 miles of coastland measured as nearly 3,400 miles when inlets and bays are considered (NOAA calls this a measurement of shoreline).
It is a source of regional and international commerce and has historically significant ports of entry for immigrants and refugees.
It attracts oceanographers, zoologists, climatologists, marine biologists, and other scientific communities to study floods, hurricanes, shore animals, sea turtles, flora, and the unique biomes of marshes and wetlands as well.
A place of beauty and solace for generations, the shores continue to be a meaningful place for vacationers, marine fishers, writers, and communities that live adjacent to the shore.
Poems will be published as accepted here.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Poetry submissions should be saved in Microsoft Word document format and composed in Times New Roman, 12-point font. They should be attached to an email addressed to editor@texaspoetryassignment.org and include a brief cover letter and a 50-word biography within the body of the email.
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ACCEPTANCE AND PUBLICATION
Upon acceptance, poems will be published on the first Sunday of the month.
PUBLICATION RIGHTS
Writers will retain all rights to their work published on this site.
FORMAL INTERESTS
We are specifically interested in poems that demonstrate careful attention to the elements of shape, line, music, comparison, and balance, and especially how those choices contribute to the cooperative harmony of structure and sentiment in the poem.
Poems that do not meet these interests may be declined. For more on this perspective, see the five formal causes of beauty in poetry.
We also challenge you to consider new choices you might take in the audience and poetic form as they pertain to aspects of narrative perspective, shape, sound, repetition, and enjambment.
