72-Hour Limerick Contest!

PFPOI started out doing contests, and we still love them! It's been a rough few months here, and so this time the contest will be something fun, something light, something to bring a smile to our lips and a quickness to our step. Yes ... a LIMERICK CONTEST. Like all our contests this one is a 50/50, meaning half of the (modest) entry fee goes to the winner and the other half goes to PFPOI's hardworking but penurious staff. Which means if you think you have a winning limerick, it's to your benefit to cajole your friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances into entering too.

How do you enter? Glad you asked! Between 11:00 AM EDT, June 4 and 11:00 AM EDT, June 7:

• Send a word doc or pdf with one or more limericks to poemsforpoi@gmail.com. 
• This part is tricky, so pay attention: The submission fee for the first 3 limericks you submit is $5 CAN. The fee for each additional limerick is $2 CAN. So if you submit 5 limericks, the fee is $9 CAN, and if you submit 1001 limericks, it's $3 + (998 x 2), or $1,999 CAN. Send the fee via PayPal to poemsforpoi@gmail.com OR, if you're in Canada, e-transfer it to anrettie@gmail.com. However you pay, please indicate in a note what the payment is for.

All submissions will receive an answer by June 13. The winning limerick and any others we like will be posted by June 25 (our EIC's birthday!) and all the limericks we post will be available in a free, downloadable PDF by June 29 (our Poetry Editor's birthday!).

Guidelines

• Poems must be the original work of the submitter, unpublished except on personal social media. You retain all publication rights to your poem, but we ask that you mention Poems for Persons of Interest in any subsequent publication.
• Please start each new poem on a new page
• Name your file the title of the first poem in it. DO NOT include your name or other identifying information in the file name or the document
• Include a short bio (no more than 25 words) in the body of your email.
• Simultaneous submissions are fine. Just let us know asap if your work is accepted elsewhere.
• It's tempting with limericks, but please do not submit obscene poems. If you wouldn't show it to someone on a first date, or to your 17-year-old daughter's best friend, don't send it to us. We are delicate creatures.