Poetry of Forgiveness Entry

Hawai'i Forgiveness Project

Thank you for submitting an entry to the Poetry of Forgiveness Awards! Your participation will enrich everyone who attends the event this year, and all who see and hear about it through the press and this website, worldwide.

We hope that your participation will benefit you too, both personally and professionally. Our commitment is to highlight the winning poetry to the maximum possible audience, and to treat your creative work with the highest respect. Awards will be presented personally at Hawai'i International Forgiveness Day, the first Sunday in August.

To submit a nomination, please first review the Entry Qualifications and background, at http://www.hawaiiforgivenessproject.org/awards/. Then fill out the form; carefully describe you and your work, and the connection of the piece you submit to the theme of forgiveness. Provide us with contact information that will allow us to quickly and easily reach you, if you are a winner or runner-up.

A judge and a supervising committee will review the nominations up to the deadline. We may contact you for further details. Those being honored will be notified at the email and/or telephone number you provide.

Your name:

The title of the poem you are entering:

A brief description of the poem you are entering, its length, subject, and style (ie., free verse, sonnet, couplets, song lyrics):

Please explain the connection you see between the poem you are entering and the theme of forgiveness. This may include a description of the inspiration for this piece, its origin and subject, its significance to you and others.

Please type your poem here, or paste the text in from its source. Remember, you
will need to be able to read your entry in a minute or less; we have provided you
with 50 lines here. If this is not sufficient space for your entry, or if your entry
is part of a longer piece, you may leave this area blank and upload the entire
longer piece as a file, in the space marked ** upload ** below.

** Upload ** : You may upload a file of any type here. Files may include a long-form version of your poem, a presentation of your poem with specific fonts and graphics. Word (.doc or .rtf) or Acrobat (.pdf) file formats are recommended.

Telephone contacts; please provide alternates, and/or a celphone contact, if appropriate:

Email contact:

You may also contact us as follows:

by mail:

Roger Epstein

Hawai'i Forgiveness Project

c/o Cades Schutte LLP

1000 Bishop Street

Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 USA

by phone:

Michael North 808-638-7100

email: info@hawaiiforgivenessproject.org

You may have an official copy of the nomination you entered sent to an email address of your choice. Just enter the email address you'd like here:

Hawaii Forgiveness Project

We support forgiveness in all its religious, artistic, personal, justice, educational, social and political forms.

Please click the "submit" button below, once. Wait for your file attachment, if any, to upload; it may take s short time. When the process is complete, you will see a thank you and acknowledgment, and you will receive a confirming email.

2009 Awards:

Deadline for receipt of entries is midnight, July 30, 2009. Winners will be informed by the evening of July 31 at the latest, with awards presented in person in Honolulu, August 2, 2009.

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