POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY wishes you a Happy New Year!
Rick Lupert
Happy New Year to you and yours from all the staff and pets here at
the Poetry Super Highway facility in northern-southern California.
� PSH LIVE OPEN READING NEXT WEEK
Join us next Sunday, January 10th at 2:00 pm (pacific) for the next
PSH Live Open Reading. Plan on calling in to read one of your poems
or just listen in. Click on PSH Live from the main PSH menu for all
the details or to listen to past shows.
� RECENT PUBLICATION
I was honored to have my recent poem "On My Eventual Death included
in the latest issue of The Blue Jew Yorker. Check it our here along
with the rest of their "Terminal Nostalgia" issue:
http://www.thebluejewyorker.com/issue7/issue7pages/Lupert.html
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THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
Issue # 639 - ISSN: 1523-6587
January 4-10, 2010
this week:
~ This week featuring poets from ST. LOUIS, MO and ACTON, MA
~ 3 new poetry and writing links added this week.
~ STARVING SWALLOWS by RADOMIR VOJTECH LUZA featured this week in the
Poets of the Week Books section of the PSH Bookstore.
~ PSH LIVE Schedule: Next Reading Jan 10, 2pm (pacific) - Next Week!
~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.
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POETS OF THE WEEK
~ This week's featured poets are: DONAL MAHONEY and MICHAEL ESTABROOK
DONAL MAHONEY (St. Louis, Missouri) is a native of Chicago who lives
in St. Louis. He has worked as an editor for The Chicago Sun-Times,
Loyola University Press and Washington University in St. Louis. He
has had poems published in or accepted by The Wisconsin Review, The
Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, The Beloit Poetry
Journal, Commonweal, Public Republic (Bulgaria), Revival (Ireland),
The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), Poetry Super Highway, Poetry
Friends, Pirene's Fountain (Australia) and other publications.
MICHAEL ESTABROOK (Acton, Massachusettss) has published 15 chapbooks
and appeared in some terrific poetry magazines, but you are only as
good as your next poem and like a surfer searching for that perfect
wave, he is a poet prowling for that perfect poem. Right now he is
looking for that perfect poem in his wife, who just happens to be the
most beautiful woman he has ever known. If he finds it anywhere he'll
find it in her.
Click on "POETS OF THE WEEK" from the main PSH menu to read their
work.
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NEW POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY LINKS
Here are all of the new sites added to the Poetry Super Highway's
poetry and writing links sections.
You can find the actual links on the PSH website in the 3 poetry links
categories. Click on "Add Your Link Here" from the main PSH menu to
add your poetry/writing website to our directory.
NEW ONLINE PUBLICATIONS LISTINGS THIS WEEK:
~ RATTLE: POETRY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
RATTLE is pretty simple: We love poetry and feel that it's something
everyone can enjoy. We look for poems that are accessible, that have
heart, that have something to say. And then we publish them. Print
issues release in June and December and are each 200 pages of poetry
and essays, plus two interviews with contemporary poets. They can be
purchased at most major bookstores, or securely online.
NEW INDIVIDUAL POETS PAGES LISTINGS THIS WEEK
~ POET'S PEN: CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH POETRY
Husband and wife East-Anglian poets Keith & Elizabeth Stanley Mallett
offer poems excerpted from four collections of poetry. Includes brief
biographies, and how to purchase the books securely online.
~ AD LIBITUM
Smart feminist takes on news, fashion, life and poetry written by
award winning author and Pushcart Prize nominated poet, Annette Marie
Hyder.
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POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE
Featured this week in the Poets of the Week Books section of the PSH
Bookstore:
STARVING SWALLOWS by RADOMIR VOJTECH LUZA
Starving Swallows carries the spirit of a man locked in a mental
hospital, not knowing when or if he will ever leave. It is blue, red
and orange. It is pain and victory, humor and disdain. No tragedy. It
was written usually at night on top of plastic garbage cans with only
the dim corridor light seeing it through. It touches on twenty years
of psychotropic medication and the highs and lows of its intake. But
fool yourself not, Starving Swallows is a book dedicated to the one
emotion that matters more than life itself: love. It eats breakfast
with it, swallows lunch and harmonizes dinner. Starving Swallows is
dedicated to love, old or new, borrowed or blue, and the mysterious
miracle it is.
Paperback, 76 Pages, Published by PublishAmerica, (June, 2008)
Click here for more and to order
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1605637254/poetrysuperhighw
~ If you are or were a featured poet of the week on the Poetry Super
Highway AND you have a book available through Amazon.com, please let
me know so we can feature your work in the Poetry Super Highway
Bookstore in a new section just for former featured poet's books.
Write bo...@PoetrySuperHighway.com with your name and the title of
the book.
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UPCOMING POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY LIVE EVENTS
Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed
during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and
clicking on the "Click to Listen" button.You can listen to the shows
through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live
through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.Can't or
don't want to call in? You can ask questions live during the show's
broadcast time by sending an instant message to RickPoet on AIM.If
you can't make the live time, you can also listen to any past show by
visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the show's
title. (As well as subscribe to all of our shows through iTunes or
any other software you use to listen to podcasts.
Upcoming Shows:
JANUARY 2010 WORLDWIDE OPEN READING
Sunday, January 10, 2010 ~ 2:00 pm (pacific) - NEXT WEEK!
Listen to and participate in our monthly open reading. Call in and
read your poetry. No content or style restrictions. Hosted by Poetry
Super Highway's Rick Lupert.
Recently Archived broadcasts:
December 2009 Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday December 6, 2009
Our December 2009 Show featured poets from Orange County, CA, Newark,
NJ, Sioux St. Marie, Canada, Columbus, OH, Columbia, SC, New South
Wales, Australia, Santa Monica, CA, Birmingham, AL and Saskatchewan,
Canada.
NOVEMBER 2009 WORLDWIDE OPEN READING
Sunday November 1st, 2009
The November 2009 open reading featured Jim Knowles from Andover, MA
reading his poem that won the 2009 Poetry Super Highway Poetry
contest and a non-stop lineup of callers from Colombus, OH, Newark,
NJ, Laguna Hills, CA, Orlando, FL, Birmingham, AL, Daytona Beach, FL,
Santa Monica, CA and Woodland Hills, CA.
Poetry Super Highway Live would love to host your reading, interview,
contest promotion or other poetry/writing related show. Please e-mail
your show idea to Ri...@PoetrySuperHighway.com, and we'll take it from
there.
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AND SO ON . . .
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POETRY CLASSIFIEDS
For information on placing Poetry Related classifieds ads on the
Poetry Super Highway web page and weekly e-mail outburst, send an
e-mail to: class...@PoetrySuperHighway.com
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POETICA PUBLISHING COMPANY: 2009 CHAPBOOK CONTEST
on the theme of "The Spirit of Nature."
Postmark Deadline: December 31, 2009. Prize: $50.00 and 25 copies of
full color cover, perfect-bound chapbook. Fee: $20.00. Final Judge:
Michal Mahgerefteh. Submit up to 26 pages of poetry, 2 cover sheets,
one with author info (including e-mail and phone), one with title
only. SASE for results only. All entrants will receive copy of the
winning chapbook. Mail to: Poetica Publishing Company, PO Box 11014,
Norfolk, Virginia 23517. More info at
http://www.poeticapublishing.com or contact us at poeti...@aol.com
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Well-established Saturday Afternoon Poetry Workshop at Beyond Baroque
in Venice has several openings available. Experienced poets and
beginners are both welcome, every Saturday except holidays, 1:30 to
4:30 pm. We are on hiatus until Jan. 9th. E-mail Bob Foster,
Facilitator, at bfos...@earthlink.net now for more informatiom. Or
leave msg. at 323 848-9671 The workshop is free.
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I AM MY OWN ORANGE COUNTY - 11TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by RICK LUPERT
"Irreverent and yet somehow deeply empathic, many of the pieces
showcase Lupert's Prevert-like instinct for finding the profound in
the absurd."
- Brendan Constantine
Rick's second book, originally published in 1997 with all of the
original selected poems from artwork, introduction and orange-ness,
along with a newly written "Re-Introduction" and a "bonus material"
section featuring a selection of 29 additional (sometimes even MORE
sophomoric) poems from the I Am My Own Orange County 'era'.
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/iamooc.html
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A Poet's Haggadah: Passover Through the Eyes of Poets edited by Rick
Lupert
36 Poets reinterpret the traditional themes and text of the Passover
Haggadah through their own unique lenses. Guaranteed to add something
different to your own seders and a great read! Edited by Los Angeles
Poet Rick Lupert (Creator of the Poetry Super Highway) Includes work
from Helen Bar-Lev, Lynne Bronstein, Salvatore Buttaci, Howard
Camner, Larry Colker, devin davis, Barbara Elovic, Robert Klein
Engler, David Gershator, Leslie Halpern, Claudia Handler, Daniel Y.
Harris, Elizabeth Iannaci, Marc Jampole, Rachel Kann, Beth Kanter,
Peggy Landsman, Michael Levy, Jake Marmer, Ellyn Maybe, Heather
McNaugher, Daniel Olivas, Judith Pacht, Jaimes Palacio, Jonathan
Penton, Joan Pond, Lanie Shanzyra P. Rebancos, Richard Schiffman, G.
David Schwartz, Adam Shechter, Diana Sher, Scott Alixander Sonders,
Julia Stein, S. Thomas Summers, Pam Ward and Misha Weidman.
More info and get the book here: http://www.poetseder.com/
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