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Geist Magazine: Call to Poets, Deadline August 1

The 2nd Annual Geist Erasure Poetry Contest deadline is fast approaching! Deadline August 1, 2012, 11:59 pm PST.

There's $1000 in prizes and the Geist Erasure Trophy to be won, as well as publication in Geist and at geist.com. Oh yes, and literary fame, too.

The Erasure Poetry Contest asks you to create your own poetic masterpiece from an excerpt of How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti—erasing letters, words and sentences until your own genius emerges.

Visit geist.com/erasure for more details and to read the excerpt.

Enter your poem, accompanied by the entry fee and brief cover letter, online, or mail submissions to:
The Geist Erasure Poetry Contest
210-111 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4
All entries must be postmarked no later than August 1, 2012.
Good luck and happy erasing!

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