i have entered stuff in the Ohio Poetry Day contests before and a friend of mine was sponsoring and judging a contest about Magic this year so i entered some poems all i had the theme Magic in mind and made them fit the categories   you can find info about OPD and the categories here and here are the poems i entered if anyone wants to give me some feedback that would be great  #1 OPD Special Award   OPD Special Award   There is a rise and fall of emotions The brass blares and the drums pound then the bass creeps along and a trumpet spews wisdom| It is all a riddle It is a fascination A shaman, a spiritual healer, unleashes nature, focused and blasted powerfully with rhythmic clicks in the background The crowd starts to shake and pulse and tremble and fall The music is magic and moves them in ways that are unforeseen and unforgiving but reveal Tenderness and discovery and memorable words/sounds/OMG/orgasms/batshitbabblings of genius A single extra-lon...

if anyone is interested here are some upcoming writing classes and events from Lit Cleveland i have done some volunteer work for the group and i am on its email list and this was promoted in an email they sent out june 1st, i cant post it but i can forward it to you if you would like to see it lemme know i believe you can sign up to get the newsletter on the site unfortunately it doesnt look like the newsletter archives are available https://www.litcleveland.org/classes

hello writers this is mike hammer here is a blog we can all post on and talk back and forth through if you have any questions or need any help you can email me at mikey.hammer@gmail.com