About this site
Who we are, and what we are not.
Who publishes this
Tale of the Muse is published by North Coast AI LLC. It is a free guide to three things poets look up: contests and their terms, the rules of poetic forms, and poets laureate. We don't run contests, take entries, sell anything to entrants or rate any contest or poet, and we aren't affiliated with any contest, press, library or state listed. Pages were researched and built with AI assistance and checked against the quoted sources.
What a source looks like
Manuscripts will be accepted between October 1, 2026, and the postmark deadline of January 14, 2027 (note that we observe a five-day grace period for both paper and online submissions).
As the nation’s official poet, the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry.
Our reading written by Tale of the Muse
These two lines show the two kinds of source the site is built on: a contest's own page printing its deadline with the year, and the Library of Congress describing the post it appoints. Neither line rates a contest or a poet, and the site adds no facts beyond what such lines say.
Our explanation of the two quotes above. It adds no facts of its own.
The old site
This address and tailofthemuse.com once carried an unused 2018 blog. Its pages were retired; tailofthemuse.com now leads here.
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