Announcing the 12th asinine poetry contest: asinine crime poems

FIRST PRIZE: $100
SECOND PRIZE: $75
THIRD PRIZE: $50

BECOME THE SHAKESPEARE OF CRIME!
Or, rather, the Capone of poetry. For our next contest, we’re calling you out to write poems in a niche category of poetry--the crime poem. That is, poems about crime. Everything from arson to extortion to murder to zebra-napping, true to fictional. Written in the asinine MO. Can you do it? Are you chicken? Give it a shot. Whatcha got to lose?

Our guest judge: Tim McLoughlin. His debut novel, Heart of the Old Country, was hailed as reminiscent of James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan and George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris. He edited Brooklyn Noir, first in the Akashic Noir Series, as well as Brooklyn Noir 2.

One dollar per entry. You may enter up to THREE times.

Or you may use snail mail. Send your cash cleverly hidden in with your entry. PLEASE DO NOT SEND A CHECK OR MONEY ORDER. Or use Paypal.
Mail your entries to:
P.O. Box 1349
New York, NY 10276.
DEADLINE: August 1, 2008.

Stay sexy!