{"id":113066,"date":"2023-04-04T16:46:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T23:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=113066"},"modified":"2023-04-04T16:46:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T23:46:19","slug":"palmdales-walk-on-words-poetry-contest-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2023\/04\/04\/palmdales-walk-on-words-poetry-contest-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmdale&#8217;s \u201cWalk on Words\u201d poetry contest opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_87247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87247\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Walk-on-Words-Palmdale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87247\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Walk-on-Words-Palmdale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Walk-on-Words-Palmdale.jpg 864w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Walk-on-Words-Palmdale-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Walk-on-Words-Palmdale-768x468.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Past &#8220;Walk on Words&#8221; poetry contest winner. [Contributed]<\/figcaption><\/figure>PALMDALE \u2013The city of Palmdale is accepting entries for its annual \u201cWalk on Words\u201d poetry contest, held during April as part of National Poetry Month. The winning poem will be stamped in concrete at Poncitl\u00e1n Square, located at 38315 9th Street East.<\/p>\n<p>Writers are invited to create their poem around the theme <em>\u201cSister Cities,\u201d<\/em> celebrating the relationship of the Association of Sister Cities in Palmdale with Poncitl\u00e1n since 1974. This year&#8217;s poetry submissions must be written in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>This contest is free and open to all ages. Poems must be family friendly original compositions written by the submitting poet, no more than eight lines long, including title, with a maximum of 25 characters per line, including spaces.\u00a0All poems must be submitted on the website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofpalmdaleca.gov\/389\/Walk-on-Words-Contest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.cityofpalmdale.org\/WoW<\/a> by Sunday, April 30. The winning poem will be stamped in concrete at Poncitl\u00e1n Square, 38315 9th St. East.<\/p>\n<p>Poems will be judged based on suitability, originality, creativity, and artistic quality. Complete rules and regulations are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofpalmdaleca.gov\/389\/Walk-on-Words-Contest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.cityofpalmdale.org\/WoW<\/a>.\u00a0For information, call 661-267-5686.<\/p>\n<h6><em>[Information via news release from the city of Palmdale.]<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE \u2013The city of Palmdale is accepting entries for its annual \u201cWalk on Words\u201d poetry contest, held during April as part of National Poetry Month. The winning poem will be stamped in concrete at Poncitl\u00e1n Square, located at 38315 9th Street East. Writers are invited to create their poem around the theme \u201cSister Cities,\u201d celebrating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113067,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113066\/revisions\/113067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}