{"id":143113,"date":"2026-02-02T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/02\/flex-your-creative-writing-muscle-submit-a-poem-for-the-national-grammar-day-poetry-contest\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:00:00","slug":"flex-your-creative-writing-muscle-submit-a-poem-for-the-national-grammar-day-poetry-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/02\/flex-your-creative-writing-muscle-submit-a-poem-for-the-national-grammar-day-poetry-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Flex Your Creative Writing Muscle: Submit a Poem for the National Grammar Day Poetry Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there a creative bone in your lawyer body? Teddy Snyder has details on the National Grammar Day Poetry Contest. The submission window opens February 15 for 13 days.
\nThe post Flex Your Creative Writing Muscle: Submit a Poem for the National Grammar Day Poetry Contest appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.<\/p>\n

Exercising your creative writing muscle improves your legal writing, along with other benefits. You might even win bragging rights for winning this year\u2019s national Grammar Day Poetry Contest. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Is there a creative bone in your lawyer body? <\/h2>\n

Every year, ACES: The Society for Editing, runs the National Grammar Day Poetry Contest<\/a>. The submission window opens February 15 for 13 days. <\/strong>Submit through the form on the website. Multiple submissions are encouraged. There is no entry fee.<\/p>\n

The prizes, besides bragging rights, are a one-year membership in ACES: The Society for Editing (we all need to edit our work, amirite?), publicity on the Grammar Girl podcast (no bad publicity for a lawyer), and a signed copy of \u201cGrammar Daily: 365 Quick Tips for Successful Writing from Grammar Girl (Quick & Dirty Tips).\u201d<\/p>\n

Writing Mistakes Can Spark Winning Poetry<\/h2>\n

Did you ever accidentally type \u201cyour\u201d for \u201cyou\u2019re,\u201d and your proofreading software didn\u2019t catch it? That happened (minus the intervention of technology) in an early manuscript of Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet. The error inspired Leslie F. Miller to write the poetry contest\u2019s 2024 winning entry.<\/p>\n

In a tale by a playwright historic,
A jester from Denmark (not Zurich)
Had always penned \u201cyour\u201d
When he\u2019d really meant \u201cyou\u2019re\u201d
Now we call him, alas, Poor Yorick.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2025 winner, Salma Amanda Latifa, reminds the reader of many of the lessons<\/a> Get To The Point has preached.<\/p>\n

Noun stands firm, giving a name,
Verb takes action, shaping the frame.
Adjective paints colors and hue,
Adverb explains how things ensue.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

When you\u2019re ready to rant about word counts or some other lawyer\u2019s sloppy drafting, channel that emotion into a poem. Dashing off a poem can be reassuringly cathartic.<\/p>\n

Poetry Improves Your Communication<\/h2>\n

Attorney At Work has previously advocated reading poetry daily<\/a>. Like good legal writing, poetry consists of powerful words delivering a concise message. Lawyers need to be good at that. <\/p>\n

Enter National Grammar Day Poetry Contest<\/h2>\n

All poems for the contest must be short. You might be able to put one together in a small number of tenths of an hour. Bill it as professional development?<\/p>\n

I will be sharing my lawyerly grammar poetry submissions on National Grammar Day, March 4th.<\/p>\n

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Is there a creative bone in your lawyer body? Teddy Snyder has details on the National Grammar Day Poetry Contest. The submission window opens February 15 for 13 days. The post Flex Your Creative Writing Muscle: Submit a Poem for the National Grammar Day Poetry Contest appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal_matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}