Leadership Poems: Call for Original Submissions

Every day people from all over the world come to this site to find leadership poems. On their behalf, you are invited to send your original poetry about leadership to this site. Up to three poems will be chosen each month to be posted and permanently displayed in the Favorite Leadership Poems pages of this site. One poem will be awarded $50.00.

Please submit no more than three poems in any month that have not been published or submitted elsewhere. Poems may be of any length and should either be about a specific leader the poet admires or about specific qualities of leadership (e.g., courage). The definition of leader is broad and ranges from well-known figures to anyone who inspires us to fulfill our true potentials. Top poems will be selected based on their capacity to inspire and move readers and to reveal the best qualities of leadership.

If selected for publication, the poet must forward a personal photograph plus a brief biography statement, including a line or two about the making of the poem. More information about this will be provided if your poem is selected.

By submitting your poem you grant Oestreich Associates first serial and second serial world-wide rights of publication in any media format (electronic, print, etc.) without further compensation, including subsequent reprinting on the Oestreich Associates website, Unfolding Leadership weblog, or as part of other writings and compilations by Daniel K. Oestreich, such as future books. However, this is not meant to restrict your use or publication of the poem in other venues once the poem has been published on the Unfolding Leadership weblog. You retain full rights to your work as previously published writing.

You will learn if your poetry has been accepted for publication within the first week of the month following the month of submission.

Please send all submissions and any questions to this address.

Good luck!

“For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give–yes or no, or maybe–
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.”

— William Stafford

This page was posted on February 25, 2009.