A news story by any other name

Poetry can be found in many places if you look for it. Including the pages of the Toronto Star. We’re asking readers to take the words and topics that shape our news coverage and turn them into haikus, sonnets, clerihews, quatrains or any form of verse.

The top poems in each of the 11 categories, judged by a panel of experts, will receive a $100 gift card to Chapters Indigo bookstores and be published in the relevant section of the Star as part of our Poetry Week in November.

For the Travel section, we’re looking for poems on the following theme:

“Explore!”

á Poems should be no more than 300 words.

á Please email each poem separately to poetry@thestar.ca

á You MUST include the theme word (Explore) and section (Travel) of the newspaper in the subject line of the email. á Include your contact information. (The rules for the poetry competition can be found at thestar.com/poetryrules.)

The themes for the other sections of the newspaper are: Politics (National) Profit (Business) Score (Sports) Transform (GTA) Illuminate (Insight) Equality (Foreign) Heart (Life) Fame (Entertainment) Home (New in Homes) Speed (Wheels). Readers can submit in any of these categories (or in all of them).

You can use email or send a letter to Poetry Week, Life Department, Toronto Star, 1 Yonge St., 5th Floor, Toronto, ON M5E 1E6.

Join the conversation on social media via the hashtag #StarPoets