WASHINGTON, D.C.; THURSDAY APRIL 30th, 2009-Today As our new President gets top marks for his First 100 Days, maybe it is poetic Justice that his first public judgment falls during America's National Poetry Month!  With all the talk this April about the economy, influenza, pirates, and a 747 photo op over the New York City skyline, don't let National Poetry Month slip by as the April winds down.
 
Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996 to celebrate poetry and its vital place in the American culture.  Several years later Migraine Advocate and poet Teri Robert organized an Poetry Contest as a way to use art to bring awareness to the burden of Migraine disease and headache disorders. MAGNUM had been using art as an awareness tool for years and was thrilled when she ask us to judge ‘Putting Our Heads Together Poetry Contest'.  After years of Migraine Disease Awareness Art Exhibitions around the country working with a non-visual medium was and still is very exciting to us.  The HealthCentral Network offered Teri an exciting platform in recent years to feature the Poetry Contest on MyMigraineConnecion where even more people can enjoy powerful poetry which speaks in a voice which until recently had been muffled and ignored.

MAGNUM is very proud to have had the opportunity to read this years excellent group of poems submitted to www.MyMigraineConnection.com  created by Migraineurs, those familiar with Migraine disease, or those who obviously grasp the impact of headache disorders. The rules to this year's ‘Putting Our Heads Together Poetry Contest 2009' are open to non-Migraineurs as well as long as the poets understand the ‘...subject must be headache or Migraine related, but may be metaphoric or abstract.'

It is exciting to have the HealthCentral Network bring poets, Migraineurs, and their poetry to the public in immediate and innovative ways. MAGNUM wants to thank all those who entered this year's competition. According to one of the judges MAGNUM Board Member Kristina Nesbitt in Atlanta;   "I was very impressed with the writing. Maybe it's true that pain breeds great artists?" 

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