You still have just over a month to submit a poem or poems to Winning Writers' ninth annual war poetry contest. They're offering a $2,000 first prize for up to three poems, not to exceed a total of 500 lines in length. The entry fee is just $15, and the (postmark) deadline is May 31, 2010.

For more information, see their "Advice from the Judge," or read previous winners from 2002-2009. Last year's prize winners were Robert Hill Long, Timothy Tebeau, and Susan McCabe.

For writing a winning poem, Winning Writers recommends reading Sassoon, Owen's "Greater Love," the work of Elisha Porat, and that 'masterpiece of irony and understatement,' Reed's "Naming of Parts."