How to Submit We Want Your Limericks! THE MAINE LIMERICK PROJECT is continually looking for submissions to its expanding collection of Maine-themed Limercks. If we feature your poem as the Limerick of the Week on this site, we'll send you a check for five dollars.* All Limericks will be considered for inclusion in our next printed volume. Please put "Maine Limerick Project" in the subject line of your e-mail. See the Limerick of the Week page for examples. Guidelines below. * We pay $1 per line, or, if you prefer, we will donate the money to a worthy charity or organization of your choice. Recent recipients of donations through THE MAINE LIMERICK PROJECT include: Amnesty International Bangor Area Homeless Shelter **Brewer Public Library Committee for Human Aquaculture on the Seabed of Maine (CHASM) Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Good Shepherd Food Bank Habitat for Humanity "The Idiots" pan-Eurasian bike trip The Island Institute **Literacy Volunteers of Maine National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Natural Resources Council of Maine The Nature Conservancy New Hope for Women Pine Tree Foundation for the Preservation of Fine Poetry (PTFPFP) The Planetary Society U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing/University of Southern Maine WERU-FM ** Donation returned

Submission Guidelines THE MAINE LIMERICK PROJECT All Limericks must be Maine-related, either through a place name, person(s), or recognizable Maine theme. Please include your name and contact info. We will consider posting Limericks anonymously, or using the author's first name and town of residence only, but we need to know where to send the five bucks. Filth and depravity are encouraged, as are multiple submissions. Be filthy, be funny, be forewarned: the Maine Limerick Project is not for the uptight or politically correct. So get out your Gazetteer and have fun! NOTES: It's not necessary to use the place name in the rhyme. We welcome Limericks of multiple stanzas, so long as they fit the overall guidelines of the Project. We also welcome topical Limericks, as long as they relate in some way to Maine.

What is a Limerick? Limericks are meant to be recited or read aloud. Therefore, it's essential that your submissions SCAN. What does this mean? This link will help you find the proper rhythm.

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