What is the “unspoken rule” regarding new poems?
Urbana encourages new work. We don’t want to be one of those venues where you hear people performing the same poems over and over again. So the tacit rule is this: your first-round poem should be a NEW poem, one that no one else has heard before. If you make it into the second round, you can go for the gold with all your old, wonderful poems. In the semifinals, you can do whatever poem you want.
