Time is running short. The deadline is Monday and you need to get your iambic pentametre, your haiku and your free form jazz quadriplets going. Beer poetry demands your attention. Forget about the NCAAs, forget about opening day. Think in verse. The rules? Once again:

• You may submit any poem on the subject of beer as long as you wrote it. No format or minimum length.
• I will judge them - extra points for the best use of the letters "j" and "q".
• The winners get prizes.

As noted in the announcement, we are giving out tickets to TAP NY 2008 and all the free beer, great food and a weekend beer people for a weekend, 26 and 27 April 2008 at the Hunter Mountain Resort in the Catskills in upper downstate New York. I have also dug into the barrel of prizes to find two new never worn XL t-shirts, one for Jolly Pumpkin of Dexter, Michigan and another for Wellington Brewery of Guelph, Ontario. These will be given to the best poems from elsewhere...the un-mid-Atlantic amongst you. Because not only do we need poetry, you need us to need your poems. Your poetry. By 10:00 pm, Monday March 31st, 2008.