1st Place $200 and publication in The Heartland Review Fall 2009 issue.

THR asks for a $3 tax-deductible contribution for each poem to support the contest and our journal. Please make checks out to The Heartland Review. Send a cover page with contact information and titles of poems name, address, and a short biography (40 words maximum).

Name and address should not appear on poems. Poems should be typed and no longer than 30 lines. Post mark deadline for entries is August 1, 2009. Winners will be announced in October and invited to read at the Morrison Gallery Poetry Series.

Send a Self Addressed Stamped Legal-sized Envelope for results.

Mail entries to: Ruth Redel Poetry Contest c/o Mick Kennedy Elizabethtown Community & Technical College 600 College Street Road Elizabethtown, KY 42701

For more information go to http://www.elizabethtown.kctcs.edu/pubs/heartland/index.html