Protons and Poetry (Contest Announcement)

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Protons and Poetry
Poets Against Indian Point

Calling all poets and creative souls. The Green Nuclear Butterfly, in a joint collaborative effort with Rock The Reactors, and Vara Art are now accepting poetry submissions for our "Protons and Poetry, Poets Against Indian Point" poetry contest. This exciting contest hopes to raise citizen awareness through the creative use of word play as we mount our campaign to close the aging and dangerous Entergy reactors known collectively as Indian Point.

Two chances to win:

1. Protons and Poetry Reading In New York (SoHo). One poet will walk away with a grand prize of $1,000.

A) Submissions can be emailed to roycepenstinger@aol.com or mailed via first class mail to Sherwood Martinelli, Green Nuclear Butterfly, 351 Dyckman Street, Peekskill, New York 10566.

B) Three judges will narrow these submissions down to 20 finalists.

C) The Green Nuclear Butterfly will announce the finalists, and the details (time, date and place) for public presentation of these works in Manhattan. Writers must be able to attend this event, and read their submission to be eligible for the grand prize.

D) Three judges will select one finalist as our Grand Prize winner.

2. The Green Nuclear Butterfly Blog has readers from 11 nations, and realizes that many creative souls would love to submit poetry, but would be unable to attend our public presentation of the 20 finalists, and so are ineligible for the above contest. We are therefore sponsoring a smaller online contest (unless we can find more prize money) for those unable to participate in the above contest. One online winner will be awarded a Grand Prize of $200.

A) Submissions can be emailed to roycepenstinger@aol.com or mailed via first class mail to Sherwood Martinelli, Green Nuclear Butterfly, 351 Dyckman Street, Peekskill, New York 10566.

B) Up to 25 finalists will be chosen from those entering contest number two.

C) The Green Nuclear Butterfly will announce the finalist for contest number two. Finalists will be asked to put their poem up on YouTube, and email the link and HTML coding. All YouTube video poems will be made available for our Green Nuclear Butterfly readers.

D. The Green Nuclear Butterfly will choose one finalist as our Online Grand Prize Winner of $200.00

All judges decisions are final.

Green Nuclear Butterfly reserves the right to increase prize amounts, or number of winners as finances allow.

Cost of entry is free, but submission of a poem gives the Green Nuclear Butterfly, and Rock The Reactors full shared unrestricted use of the work with the poets, including right to publication, and/or reuse without financial costs. All proceeds used to further the efforts of our two organizations.

Green Nuclear Butterfly Morning News Brief

Greetings Readers:

Some BIG NEWS events today here at Green Nuclear Butterfly, so want to give our readers a HEAD'S UP, so that you don't miss anything.

1. Green Nuclear Butterfly was created and launched on December 26th, 2006. We are very pleased to announce, that our next post will see us pass the important milestone of 100 articles.

2. Deadline for signing our open letter to Greenpeace is upon us...so, we'd like EVERYONE today to really push to bring us a few more signatures to that effort. Either tomorrow or Friday we'll print a hard copy of said letter and mail it off to Washington, DC.

3. Green Nuclear Butterfly later today will be posting the official rules for the Green Nuclear Butterfly's Photons and Poetry, Poets Against Relicensing Poetry Contest. Poets, get out your pens and start honing your ANTI NUKE poetry skills, as one lucky winner will be taking home a grand prize of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS! We will have a second online entrants only award of $200.00. Read all about this exciting event later today.

All entries will become the property of Green Nuclear Butterfly, and Rock The Reactors, the officials sponsors of this event...if you, or your organization would like to be a part of this event, would like to donate towards our prize pool, or would be interested in hosting the public reading of the finalists submissions, please contact our publisher at roycepenstinger@aol.com. We are hoping for at least 100 entries in each of the two divisions of this contest.

Division 1-Any ANTI Nuke poem, or a green themed piece that does not embrace nuclear as alternative fuel choice. 20 finalists will be chosen from this group, and if chosen, you must be able to show up for the public reading where the winner will be chosen. This will be a winner take all event, with the Grand Prize Recipient recieving $1,000.

Division 2-Green Nuclear Butterfly realizes many of our readers are from all over the world with readers now in 11 foreign nations. Because of this, we are putting up $200 for a special online only division for those who cannot make our public reading. We are hoping we will have some additional patrons step forward so we can increase the amount of this award.

4. Green Nuclear Butterfly will also be finalizing comments in opposition of the Pilgrim plants continued operation as well today. We encourage all of our readers to make it a point to submit written comments opposing any and all efforts to relicense any and all of the aging fleet of reactors here in America. To this end, we will today be opening up a Yahoo Group for grassroots organizations to keep each other informed, a place where you can post your requests for help, or share important NRC documents.

Last, but certainly NOT LEAST...we really could use some financial sponsors and donors, as we have many more ideas just waiting to be launched. So, if Donald Trump is reading this, or Cher is looking for a new favorite Grassroots group to support, feel free to use our DONATION button to make a pay pal contribution to our efforts.