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Awake at the Wheel: The louderARTS Poetry Prize
www.louderARTS.com/awake

Deadline: February 1, 2005
Prize: $500 + reading with honorarium + publication in Rattapallax Magazine
2005 Judge: Laure-Anne Bosselaar

The louderARTS Project is proud to announce our first annual poetry prize, Awake at the Wheel.

As an organization dedicated to uniting the various worlds of poetry (writing and performing, traditionalist structure and slam form, study and action, personal and political, solitary and collaborative, genre-specific and genre-bending), in a way that is both altruistic and personally and artistically evolutionary, we seek poetry thattakes the kind of risks that keep us "awake at the wheel" – in other words, aware and vibrating to the world around us. Poetry, in essence, that saves our lives.

The poem that wins this contest will be one that shifts the air in the room where it's read. That rattles the atoms of a reader or listener. That breaks through the ordinary in its craft and expression in such a way that we are awakened to a new possibility, any new possibility.

For guidelines and contest details, go to www.louderARTS.com/awake or send a SASE to The louderARTS Projectattn: Prize CommitteePO Box 1247New York, NY 10276-1247
Submissions must be postmarked NO LATER THAN February 1, 2005.

The winner will be announced April 10, 2005 at http://www.louderarts.com/. The top three poems (winning poem plus two honorable mentions) will be published in Rattapallax Magazine (http://www.rattapallax.com/.) The author of the winning poem will be invited to perform at 13 Bar/Lounge, the home of excellent writing and performance in NYC since 1998, and provided an honorarium for the engagement.

Direct all questions to awake@louderARTS.com. No electronic submissions will be accepted.