HomeMy WebLinkAbout2025-01-27 Poet Laureate Committee Minutes (2) North Andover Poet Laureate Committee Minutes
Monday,January 27, 2O2S G:OOPM online only
Public access email:
Attendees: PLcchair Karen Kline' PLC members: Dan speers'cansta Lamb'Graham Jackson,signe spencer
Past Poet Laureate: Man, aohrer
1. Reviewed and approved Minutes from 1/o/2smeeting
2. Anne Bradstreet Poetry Contest zoz5 Fifth Anniversary
GrowingOurCommunity—P|anting Seeds of Poetry
s. Contest scheuu|e
w Announcement Date:Feb 1(goa|)
w Contest Entries Close:April 1
w Winners Announced:April 17
w Contest Celebration on Common:Sat xxays(May zo rain date)
m ACTION po||owup: Karen—reserve common/bandstand with town (both dates)
4. Contest Rules
s. contest|nput/prep
w website ,tatus—chrixta
^ ACTION:Karen—send Christa promo/writeup about poetry celebration on common
^ ACTION:Mark—send cxristaYouTube |inks.
m contestprompts —simne & sra ham
^ Proposal forThnee Prompts: s|ementary(srx'2,s th and xxs' Hs and Adult)
m contest Announcement Email —from |astvear'sanncongoou|edrive ,mark
^ send bv Feb 1st
e. Contest Promotion:
w New yard signs
w r|ve r for store, —Mark
w mApoetscomer/Faannouncement—xxark when we have weusitereauvtomo
7. Contest Funding
m ACTION:naren—contactxxark oisa|vn &xxe|issa Rodrigues
o Ask town to create awavfur people to donate tupLcommittee.
o Haverhill does this through the town.
w Ask for contribution support tu help us pavrorsigns and promotion
o s|eve|s ($50,$100,$zoo)
o Use Contest Flyer,talk about contest 5thvea�Anne Bradstreet history in town,Valley of the Poets
w Idea to have a poem written by local poet to display in a restaurant?
o. Antho|oxvuook—iueatonumishnoemsfromprewou, vears
o Get funding from merchants
g. Upcoming Poetry Events
w Feb 1—c»rista'Jason and Mark Diverging Poets of New England—First Parish Billerica
w April for National Poetry Month/The First Step at Stevens Memorial Library
w An International Zoom event/"Anne Read 'Round the World for Peace"/June 2025?
zo. New Poet Laureate
11. New Business
12. Next xxeetino—pebruarvsm's:oo pxx