[stylist] Great American Think Off

[Brad Dunse]

For your consideration...


The Great American Think-Off releases the 2011 essay and debate 
question "Does Poetry Matter?"

America's premier amateur philosophy contest, The Great American 
Think-Off, releases its 2011 essay and debate question: "Does Poetry 
Matter?" The New
York Mills Regional Cultural Center in rural northwest Minnesota will 
host this 19th annual Think-Off with live debate (June 11th, 
2011).  The debate follows
an essay contest with entry deadline of April 1st, 2011.  Four 
finalist essay writers will be selected and invited to participate in 
the debate in June.
A $500 cash prize is awarded to each finalist as well as travel and lodging.

New York Mills Regional Cultural Center is a non-profit rural art and 
culture organization committed to encouraging a dialogue among all 
Americans that
considers important values and questions for our time.  This year the 
focus is on poetry (and the broader field of all the 
arts).  Essayists and debaters
may wish to address the role of the poet (artist) in society, whether 
poetry (and art) can be a vehicle for change either personally or in 
the larger world,
and in what way poetry may play a role in the creation of community, 
beauty, and creating new ways of perceiving the people and world around us.

Entering the competition is easy. Just submit an essay of 750 words 
or less by April 1, 2011 (postmark date). You may send your essay in 
one of three ways:
through the mail to Great American Think-Off, New York Mills Regional 
Cultural Center, P.O. Box 246, New York Mills, MN 56567 or email to
think-off at kulcher.org
  (no attachments) or submit on-line at
www.think-off.org.
There is no submission fee--submissions are accepted at no charge to writers.


Brad



Brad Dunse

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