Sinclair Community College Sponsors Dunbar Poetry Contest

Sinclair Community College’s English Department is sponsoring the 25th Annual Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Contest.

The contest features four categories: Elementary, Middle School, High School and Adult. Each entrant can submit up to five (5) unpublished poems. The contest is open to the public.

The winners of each category will receive a $100 prize.

Entries must be postmarked by February, 7 and must be submitted to:

Professor Susan Callender

Sinclair Community College

444 W. Third Street

Dayton, Ohio 45402-1460

Please include category(Elementary, Middle School, High School or Adult) on all submitted works.

For additional information, please contact Susan Callender at 937-512-2369 or [email protected]

…Let us all with veneration Every effort consecrate. And our city, shall we fail her? Or desert her gracious cause? Nay–with loyalty we hail her And revere her righteous laws. She shall ever claim our duty, For she shines–the brightest gem That has ever decked with beauty Dear Ohio’s diadem. ~Toast of Dayton by Paul Laurence Dunbar.