[Gates open Wednesday, July 31st -- boards will be unlocked at that time]
Main Gate and Information Booth
Welcome – The Tangled Branch is again proud to host the historic, addictive, and uninhibited Mid-Summer Poetry Fest -- cold beer, lemonade and cider, soft or hard as you will - whatever turns your crank, but for sure cranks will be turning, churning, burning lines and lies and clumps versificated and otherwise, toward free narratives and free spirit dances around campfires and bonfires spiraling toward dawn, a reincarnated morning, to reconvene, rehydrate, reload and reversify, and to re-vision, revisit and re-write the poems of summer, each and every summer, all to the delight and amazement those still capable of being delighted and amazed. So take what steps you may need to make yourself [again] capable of delight and amazement -- both the giving and the receiving. Remember – it's summer . . . when the magic happens.
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Info – the Fest commences Wednesday July 31st and concludes midnight on Saturday, August 10, 2019. Come in, look around, write and post some poems – read and enjoy others’ work.
Loosen up, have fun, let the summer spirit enter your hearts and pens. The occasion is the special magic that can be a summer's night, a summer's morn, and how that magic can find poetic expression.
In addition to this board, there is a Beer Tent for general chat, banter and trash talk.
Seven of the boards invite the posting of your original poems written during the Fest. Two of boards will allow the posting of previously written poems. Those are the Poet Laureate competition (best damn poem you've ever written, any topic), and Mid-Summer Magic Showcase (best summer magic poem you have ever written).
Here is a rundown of all of the boards:
1 Main Gate / Info Booth
2 Beer Tent -- Red Baron Style, general chat, banter, and trash talk
3 Summers Past - Poems of Reminiscence
4 Summers Future - Poems of Presentiment, Expectancy
5 Mid-Summer Magic Showcase
6 Four & Twenty -- max four lines, twenty words
7 Poetry Decathlon -- ten poems meeting the various requirements
8 Love and Death -- time to write on the two most overwritten topics ever
9 Let it Be Spoken -- posting of audio recordings of your poems
10 Poet Laureate of MSPF -- best original poem, no limits
11 Crappy Poem Thread -- for the stuff what doesn't fit elsewhere.
Folks can choose what they want to post, ignoring some boards, flood others – whatever -- its just for fun. And it is your responsibility to have fun. Now – have at it.
