Garrison Keillor Leaving Prairie Home Companion, Still Working for Common Good

"Garrison Keillor is retiring from 'A Prairie Home Companion,' but not from his commitment to writers," writes Mary Ann Grossmann for TwinCities.com. Keillor has resolved to offer $5,000 in prize money for poets responding to the theme of "gratitude" in his Fourth Annual Common Good Books Poetry Contest:

Garrison Keillor is offering five thousand dollars in prize money to the seven winners of “Poems of Gratitude: The Fourth Annual Common Good Books Poetry Contest.” Three poets will receive grand prizes of $1000 each, and four poets will receive $500 for poems of particular merit.

This year, we are switching from the epistolary theme. Entries to “Poems of Gratitude” may be any form, but they should give thanks for something good. Mail your poem to Common Good Books, postmarked no later than April 15, 2016.

Winners will be announced May 1. Full details Winners will be announced May 1 here. Good luck!