Flex Your Creative Writing Muscle: Submit a Poem for the National Grammar Day Poetry Contest

Exercising your inventive writing muscle improves your authorized writing, together with different advantages. You would possibly even win bragging rights for successful this 12 months’s nationwide Grammar Day Poetry Contest.

Is there a inventive bone in your lawyer physique?

Yearly, ACES: The Society for Modifying, runs the Nationwide Grammar Day Poetry Contest. The submission window opens February 15 for 13 days. Submit by means of the shape on the web site. A number of submissions are inspired. There is no such thing as a entry payment.

The prizes, moreover bragging rights, are a one-year membership in ACES: The Society for Modifying (all of us must edit our work, amirite?), publicity on the Grammar Lady podcast (no unhealthy publicity for a lawyer), and a signed copy of “Grammar Every day: 365 Fast Ideas for Profitable Writing from Grammar Lady (Fast & Soiled Ideas).”

Writing Errors Can Spark Profitable Poetry

Did you ever by accident sort “your” for “you’re,” and your proofreading software program didn’t catch it? That occurred (minus the intervention of expertise) in an early manuscript of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The error impressed Leslie F. Miller to put in writing the poetry contest’s 2024 successful entry.

In a story by a playwright historic,A jester from Denmark (not Zurich)Had all the time penned “your”When he’d actually meant “you’re”Now we name him, alas, Poor Yorick.

The 2025 winner, Salma Amanda Latifa, reminds the reader of lots of the classes Get To The Level has preached.

Noun stands agency, giving a reputation,Verb takes motion, shaping the body.Adjective paints colours and hue,Adverb explains how issues ensue.

Whenever you’re able to rant about phrase counts or another lawyer’s sloppy drafting, channel that emotion right into a poem. Dashing off a poem might be reassuringly cathartic.

Poetry Improves Your Communication

Lawyer At Work has beforehand advocated studying poetry every day. Like good authorized writing, poetry consists of highly effective phrases delivering a concise message. Attorneys have to be good at that.

Exercising your poetic abilities can enhance your authorized writing.

Pulitzer Prize winner and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish was one in every of a number of American attorneys who grew to become well-known poets. Richard Moorhead and Mona Arshi are amongst a bunch of prize-winning lawyer-poets from the U.Okay. There’s no cause why you’ll be able to’t do it, too.

Enter the Nationwide Grammar Day Poetry Contest

All poems for the competition should be brief. You would possibly have the ability to put one collectively in a small variety of tenths of an hour. Invoice it as skilled growth?

I might be sharing my lawyerly grammar poetry submissions on Nationwide Grammar Day, March 4.

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