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New Poetry Contest: Take a Bow
Pudding loved reading about all the great performers in this issue of Cricket—from Farley the dog, to ballet great Jacques D’Amboise, to the humble street musician in “Farewell.” For this month’s contest, she’s staging dramatic readings in Cricket Country of your best poem about a performer.
Will your poem praise a performance by an actor or musician you admire? Or will you write about your own performance in a piano recital, or dancing onstage in a ballet, or trying out for the lead in a school play? Perhaps you will write about somebuggy who is haunted by a theater superstition (“Break a leg!”), or who loves working behind the scenes on stage crew or as a director. You might write about a performance that is not onstage at all—like your baby sister singing in her bath, or your family dog doing a duet with Dad, or an athlete performing before an Olympic crowd, or a songbird in your backyard.
Whether you write about a magic act at the circus, a puppet show, or just dancing in the streets with your friends after school, everybuggy in Cricket Country will be on their feet shouting “Encore!” when they read your best poem—of 24 lines of less, please—about a performer. Bravo!