{"id":87473,"date":"2019-05-13T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=87473"},"modified":"2019-05-13T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T21:31:13","slug":"last-call-for-entries-for-palmdales-walk-on-words-poetry-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/05\/13\/last-call-for-entries-for-palmdales-walk-on-words-poetry-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Last call for entries for Palmdale&#8217;s &#8220;Walk on Words&#8221; poetry contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_87247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87247\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><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\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2016\u2019s Walk on Words winning poet Mitchell Seyfer poses in front of his prose stamped in concrete at Marie Kerr Park. [Contributed]<\/figcaption><\/figure>PALMDALE \u2013The city of Palmdale will accept entries until Wednesday, May 15, for its <em>\u201cWalk on Words\u201d<\/em> poetry contest, which will culminate with the winning poem being stamped in concrete at a city facility.<\/p>\n<p>The contest is free and open to all ages. This year\u2019s theme is <em>\u201cNeighborhoods.\u201d<\/em> 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. All poems must be submitted on the website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofpalmdale.org\/walkonwords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.cityofpalmdale.org\/walkonwords<\/a> by Wednesday, May 15.<\/p>\n<p>Poems will be judged based on suitability, originality, creativity and artistic quality. Poems not meeting the requirements for line limitations are automatically disqualified. Complete rules and regulations are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofpalmdale.org\/walkonwords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.cityofpalmdale.org\/walkonwords.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCelebrate National Poetry Month by expressing yourself through poetry,\u201d stated Palmdale\u2019s Recreation and Culture Director Keri Smith. \u201cSubmit your work themed around \u2018Neighborhoods\u2019 and your poem just may end up being stamped in concrete at a city facility in Palmdale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be notified by phone or email and announced at a public unveiling at a date to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>For information, call 661-267-5611.<\/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 will accept entries until Wednesday, May 15, for its \u201cWalk on Words\u201d poetry contest, which will culminate with the winning poem being stamped in concrete at a city facility. The contest is free and open to all ages. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cNeighborhoods.\u201d Poems must be family-friendly original compositions written [&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\/87473"}],"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=87473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87473\/revisions"}],"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=87473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}