| | | | | | Dear Loser, Aspiring Loser or General Hanger-On:
Holy moly, do you think we'll have enough source material this year for our annual obit poem contest? We're looking for a witty (but not cruel) verse about someone who died in 2016. You get to enter up to 25 poems, each eight lines or fewer.
And we have the winning "silver linings" to comfort those who were less than ecstatic over the election results.
Like this runner-up: It’ll be fun to see Cabinet meetings televised and end with a firing.
In my supplementary column The Style Conversational, I discuss the new contest and results -- and I also wrap up the year with a look back at the top winners of the past year's contests -- everything from song parodies to neologisms, and all of course exceedingly clever. And many of them alluding to one particular person.
This week's Invitational:
http://bit.ly/invite1208
This week's Conversational:
http://bit.ly/conv1208
— Pat Myers, Empress of The Style Invitational
pat.myers@washpost.com
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