This year’s annual Sue C. Boynton Poetry contest submissions are open during March 2025. Submissions must be 27 lines or fewer, and lines must have 55 or fewer characters. Poems may be submitted via email, mail, or drop-off to the following:
Email: BoyntonPoetryContest@hotmail.com
Mail: Whatcom Poetry Series PO Box 621, Bellingham, WA 98227
Drop Off: Allied Arts 1213 Cornwall Avenue Bellingham, WA 98225 11am-4pm Tuesday-Saturday
“Ink, Paper, Scissors: nature speaks in three voices,” will open at Dakota Art Gallery as part of the Downtown Bellingham First Friday Art Walk, on June 7, 2024, from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. Sheila Sondik, Anita Boyle, and J.I. Kleinberg are poets as well as visual artists, and will present a poetry reading on the last day of the exhibit, Saturday, June 29, at 2:00 p.m. in the Gallery at Dakota Art, 1322 Cornwall Avenue in Bellingham, WA. Dakota Art is open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The three creatives are longtime friends and share a reverence for the Pacific Northwest landscape, as well as innovative approaches to visual art and writing.