presents a poetry contest entitled...........
"Albert Einstein's Miraculous Year 100th Anniversary Poetry Contest 2005"
Duration of the poetry contest:
Dec 1, 2004 to Sept 30, 2005
Total Cash Prize: $2,005
Major Theme:
"Einstein: Life of a Genius"
Minor Themes:
I. Life of Einstein
a. boyhood
b. patent clerk
c. theoretical physicist
d. Nobel Prize recipient
e. life in Europe
f. life in Usa
g. life as a Jew
h. as a violinist
i. as a family man
j. life in Princeton Univ
k. miracle year of 1905
Deadline of poem submission related to minor theme I:
March 31, 2005
II. Einstein's fears
a. Atomic Bomb
b. Manhattan Project
c. Atomic Age
d. WW II
e. Letter to US Pres Franklin Roosevelt
e. Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Deadline of poem submission related to minor theme II:
June 30, 2005
III. Einstein and his ideas
a. Gravitation
b. World Peace
c. Relativity
d. E = Mc2
e. photoelectric effect
f. supernova
g. Brownian motion
h. blackholes
IV. Any physics topic:
fission, fusion,
photons, photoelectric effect, forces, blackholes, light, sound, electricity, magnetism, optics, astrophysics, quantum mechanics, atoms, neutrons, etc.
Deadlines of poem submission related to minor themes III and IV: Sept 30, 2005
Cash Prizes:
1st Place: $1,000
2nd Place: $500
3rd Place: $250
4th Place: $100
5th Place: $50
6th Place: $30
7th Place: $25
8th Place: $25
9th Place: $25
Total Cash Prize: $2005
Rules:
1. Reading/entry fee: 0
Send poems to:
Muses Review-Einstein Poem Contest
2267 Woodranch Road,
San Jose, CA 95131, USA
2. Style: metered/rhyme verse or free verse.
3. No. of lines: 80 lines or less.
4. You can submit a maximum of 3 poems with one theme or three different themes.
5. Include your name and mailing address, email address.
6. Submit short biography
7. Submit 1-3 poems and short bio by snail mail or email to editor at: [email protected]
8. Deadlines of submission of poems for the minor themes:
I. March 31, 2005.
II. June 30, 2005
III. Sept 30, 2005
IV. Sept 30, 2005
9. Shortlist of winners will be announced on October 15, 2005
10. The top nine winners will be announced on October 30, 2005.
11. Best Poem: Cash Prize of $1,000 and poem published at Muses Review.
12. Details of the contest will be updated at:
http://www.geocities.com/musesreview/contest2.html
or
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/musesreview
13. Submitted Poems will not be returned but the copyright belongs to the poet.
14. The poem should be written in English language.
15. The top twenty poems will be published at Muses Review, Fall edition, but cash prize is reserve only for the top nine winners.
16. Other poems not in the Top 20 will be published in later issues of Muses Review.
17. Choose one theme or three themes for each poem you want to submit.
18. Selected 50 poems will be published in an anthology.
19. The decision of the judge or panel is final.
20. The awarding ceremonies will be on November 2005 but the exact venue will be announced later.
21. Muses Review will feature some of the submitted poems during the contest duration from Dec 1, 2004 to Sept 30, 2005 and after the contest duration.
22. The poem contest starts on December 1, 2004 and ends on September 30, 2005 for ten months.
23. This is an international poetry contest open to physicists and non-physicists alike.
24. Visit the webpage of the "World Year of Physics 2005" to find out the calendar of event of the poetry contest at:
http://www.physics2005.org