New Contest! Poems About Work

It's the start of the Labour Day (or, if you like, Labor Day) long weekend here in North America, and we're celebrating with another contest. Like all our contests, it's 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 poem, it's to your benefit to cajole your friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances into entering too.

How do you enter? Glad you asked! Between 7:00 PM EDT, August 29 and 7:00 AM EDT, August 31:

• Send a word doc or pdf with one or more poems, each no longer than 50 lines, about work (broadly construed) to poemsforpoi@gmail.com. 
• This part is tricky, so pay attention: The submission fee for the first poem you submit is $5 CANADIAN. The fee for each additional poem is $2 CAN. So if you submit 5 poems, the fee is $13 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 what the payment is for.

All submissions will receive a response by September 2. The winning poem and any others we like will be posted by September 5 and all the poems we post will be available in a free, downloadable PDF by September 7.

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• Poems must be the original work of the submitter, unpublished except on personal social media, You retain all publication rights to your poem, but we ask that you mention Poems for Persons of Interest in any subsequent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.