To celebrate National Poetry Month and Oklahoma, the Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry conducts an annual Oklahoma Poem Contest, with cash prizes and medals for the winners. Prizes are given out each year at Wonder City Wordfest in Locust Grove.

To enter, write your own creative poem that has something to do with one or more of Oklahoma’s emblems: our state bird, animal, flag, motto, etc.

                          CASH PRIZES totaling $800

Contest Guidelines

1. All Oklahoma residents are eligible to enter.
2. Poems will be judged in 4 categories:K-5th, 6th-8th, 9th-12th, and Adult
3. Cash awards will be given in each category. Medals will be given for runners-up.
4. Poems must be 10-24 lines long, no shorter and no longer.
5. Poems can be rhymed or unrhymed.
6. One poem per person.
7. Previous winning poems cannot be submitted again.
8. A signed Entry Form or online form must be filled out and turned in with the poem.

Contest Evaluation Criteria:

Poems will be judged based on these criteria: imagery, creativity, language, and theme

To Submit:                   DEADLINE: April 3, 2021

Mail your poem with THIS ENTRY FORM.

OR

Submit your poem through the online form below.

Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry PO Box 1243 Locust Grove OK 74352

Rural Oklahoma Museum of Poetry
2020 Oklahoma Poem Contest Winning Poets

Adult

1^st, Aunika Anderson, Spiro
2^nd, Jacquelyn Magrady, Tulsa
3^rd, Zachary Wilhite, Claremore

9^th-12^th Grade

1^st, Kaylee Bowman, Grove
2^nd, Justin Herlan, Bluejacket
3^rd, Harley Lee, Bluejacket

5^th-8^th Grade

1^st, Aurora Parks, Pryor
2^nd, Ashlie Nguyen, Yukon
3^rd, Zack Strong, Yukon

K-4^th Grade

1^st, Jediah Harrison, Grove
2^nd, MeKenzie Smith, Yukon
3^rd, Silas Jackson, Grove

Oklahoma Poem Contest 2020: Winning Poems

2019 Oklahoma Poem Contest Winners

Adult

1^st, Hannah Ewton, Claremore

2^nd, Darron Dunbar, Oklahoma City

3^rd, Mary McCloskey, Oklahoma City

9^th-12^th

1^st, Palmer Strubhar, Piedmont

5^th-8^th

1^st, Lahna Erwin

2^nd, Ivy Snyder

3^rd, Ashley Smith

K-4^th

1^st, Zack Strong, Yukon

2^nd Alexander Spruill, El Reno & Kaylee Porter, Yukon

3^rd, Leslie Bernal, Tulsa

CLICK HERE to see photos by Zack Strong’s grandfather Lonnie Rickey at Wonder City Wordfest

2019 OK Winning Poems

Poem by Darron Dunbar

2018 Oklahoma Poem Contest Winners

Photographs of the winners who were at the ceremony can be found HERE.

 Category: K-5^th Grade

1^st
Aurora Parks, Roosevelt Elementary, Pryor

2^nd
Amelia Hanlan, Independence Elementary, Yukon

3^rd (tie)
Madison Mennecke, LGUE, Locust Grove

Parker Hensley, Independence Elementary, Yukon

Category: 6^th-8^th Grade

1st
Erin Bendabout, LGMS, Locust Grove

2nd
Jerah Bighorse, LGMS, Locust Grove

3^rd (tie)
Miranda Blossom, LGMS, Locust Grove

Mya Phillips, LGMS, Locust Grove

Category: 9th-12th Grade

1st

Jasmine Alverado, Emerson South, Oklahoma City

2nd
Sierra Murphy, LGHS, Locust Grove

3rd
Audra Cunningham, LGHS, Locust Grove

Category: Adult

1^st
Casey Mclerran, Sapulpa

2^nd
Debra Martin, Edmond

3^rd
Hannah Eaton, Claremore

You can read all of the winning poems in a pdf by clicking HERE.

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Oklahoma Poem Contest 2019

Entries due April 13, 2019

Wonder City Wordfest: Saturday, April 27, 2019

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