Mustard Seed Farm & Market is honored to announce that internationally renowned poet, Edward Hirsch

Mustard Seed Farm & Market is honored to announce that internationally renowned poet, Edward Hirsch, has agreed to be the final judge of its first annual poetry competition, which is being conducted to raise funds for its work program building project. More information is available at https://bit.ly/2X6qSRA.

The winning poem will be considered to be featured in a mural on the main entry wall of the organization’s new work program building in Richmond, Texas.

Mustard Seed Farm & Market is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization created to provide meaningful work for adults with disabilities, primarily through growing native milkweed plants to help restore Monarch butterfly habitat.  The charity’s Web site is https://www.mustardseedfarmers.org. It is a new non-profit and is in the middle of it’s capital campaign to raise funds to complete the building where its program participants will work. This poetry competition might be the key to finishing their building and beginning to be able to provide jobs.

The poetry competition judge, Edward Hirsch, is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry.  His devotion to poetry is lifelong. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, the Prix de Rome, and an Academy of Arts and Letters Award. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

The 2019 Poetry Competition Chairman is Houston-area poet, Terry Jude Miller is the winner of many Poetry Society of Texas poetry awards, and is also the Assistant Marketing Director for Mustard Seed Farm & Market. Miller’s books of poetry, are titled: “The Day I Killed Superman”, “What If I Find Only Moonlight?”, and “The Butterfly Canonical”.  He is a member of the Academy of American Poets and the Poetry Society of Texas.  He is the creator of the Texas Poets Podcast. Terry is a retired professor of eMarketing and held an Innovation Fellowship at Kaplan University.