POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY wishes everyone happy everything
Rick Lupert
�� Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or National
�� Flashlight Day (It's this Tuesday!!), we hope that your celebrations
�� or joyous, healthy and filled with poetry.(P.S. December 27th is
�� National Fruitcake day.) Check out our 2009 Holiday Recommendations
�� here: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/holiday09.html
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THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
Issue # 637 - ISSN: 1523-6587
December 21-27, 2009
�� this week:
�� ~ This week featuring poets from SCITUATE, MA and OAKLAND, CA
�� ~ 2 new poetry and writing links added this week.
�� ~ THE BLACK AUTOMATON by DOUGLAS KEARNEY featured this week in the PSH
�� � Bookstore.
�� ~ PSH LIVE Schedule: Next Reading Jan 10, 2pm (pacific)
�� ~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.
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POETS OF THE WEEK
�� ~ This week's featured poets are:
�� RENEE SUMMERS and JOYCE SWING GOODLATTE
�� RENEE SUMMERS (Scituate, Massachusetts) is always amazed when she is
�� published and is been proud to have a Holocaust poem published on
�� Poetry Super Highway. She is a volunteer at the New England Pension
�� Assistance Project, Pension Action Center, Gerontology Institute UMA
�� Boston where she is a pension counselor, not an attorney. Renee has
�� appeared in a number of local venues � MAX Magazine of the Community
�� Newspapers, Aurorean, Ibbetson St. Press, Spare Change News, Hoi
�� Polloi: A Literary Review for the Rest of Us and others. She
�� self-published a collection of poetry entitled If the Potter�s Hands
�� Shake, two chapbooks and three/now four poetry books in the form of
�� art works.�
�� JOYCE SWING GOODLATTE (Oakland, California) has published poetry in
�� The Milvia Street Review and Street Spirit. This has ben a year of
�� continuous changes and challenges.
�� 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 INDIVIDUAL POETS PAGES LISTINGS THIS WEEK
�� ~ BUDDY WAKEFIELD
�� BuddyWakefield is the two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion
�� featured on NPR, the BBC, HBO�s Def Poetry Jam, and most recently
�� signed to Ani DiFranco�s Righteous Babe Records.
�� ~ MICHAEL ROBERTS: THE HOPEMEAT
�� Michael Roberts' poetry reads like a primer on dream logic, the
�� strange and universal order functioning in kind with (or in spite of)
�� waking experience. For Roberts', poetry is not an end but the only
�� possible means-the first organizing principal-by which the world is
�� savored or survived. Take his book into the unknown: into the
�� unpinned regions of the map, the unpacked rooms of the heart.
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POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE
�� Featured this week in the Poetry Resource Books section of the PSH
�� Bookstore:
�� THE BLACK AUTOMATON by DOUGLAS KEARNEY
�� "First, you have to see Douglas Kearney's visual poems, which
�� cheekily diagram cultural memes as if they were parts of speech (as
�� they are). The Black Automaton has its share of sharp, tender lyrics,
�� too... these exploit the political possibilities of puns and the way
�� meanings hinge on inexact resemblance. Kearney's poems tweak and
�� skewer pop culture and literary sources from Paul Laurence Dunbar to
�� T. S. Eliot to traditional ballads and blues... Kearney's work turns
�� poetic and cultural conventions disquietingly inside out."�
�� � � � - CATHERINE WAGNER
�� From ambivalent animals thriving after Katrina to party chants
�� echoing in a burning city, The Black Automaton troubles rubble,
�� cobbling a kind of life. In this collection, bodies at risk seek
�� renewal through violence and fertility, history and myth, flesh and
�� radios.
�� Paperback, 72 Pages, Published by Fence, (December, 2009)
�� Click here for more and to order
�� http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193420028X/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)
�� 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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�� 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 Dec. 5th. 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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�� LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES:
�� THE DREAM QUEST ONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST is open to anyone who�
�� loves expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful
�� art of poetry or writing a story that is worth telling everyone!
�� Guidelines: (1) Write a poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject,
�� form or style. And/or (2) Write short story five pages maximum,
�� single or double line spacing, on any subject or theme, fiction or
�� non-fiction. Multiple entries are accepted. (www.dreamquestone.com)
�� Postmark deadline: December 31, 2009. Prizes: Writing Contest First
�� Prize is $500; Second: $250; Third: $100. Poetry Contest First Prize:
�� $250; Second: $125; Third: $50. All contest winners' works will be
�� published online in the Dare to Dream pages, on January 31, 2010.
�� Entry fees: $5 per poem, $10 per short story. To send entries by
�� mail: Include title of poem(s) or stori(es), name, address, phone#,
�� email, brief biographical info. (Tell us a little about yourself) on
�� the coversheet; add a self-addressed stamped envelope for entry
�� confirmation. Fees payable to: �DREAMQUESTONE.COM�- Mail to: Dream
�� Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest, P.O. Box 3141, Chicago, IL 60654.
�� Visit http://www.dreamquestone.com for details and to enter!
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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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�� The Poetry Bomb is seeking submissions
�� Click here for more information: � �
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Los-Angeles-CA/The-Poetry-Bomb/171728218546
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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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Thanks, Rick. A merry Xmas to you.