POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY closing out 2009
Rick Lupert
With the imminent close of 2009 we'd like to wish everyone a very
happy new year. If you were a featured poet in 2009, you are now
eligible to submit poetry again for consideration in 2010. Any
individual poet is eligible to be a featured Poet of the Week once
during the calendar year. If you weren't a featured poet in 2009,
well, you're eligible too. Click here for our submission guidelines:
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html#submit
� Post Holiday 2009 Poetry Blowout in L.A. on Tuesday
If you happen to be in L.A. this Tuesday, December 29, consider
yourself invited to the Cobalt Cafe in Canoga park where I host a
weekly open reading. This Tuesday it's an end of the year poetry blow
out party featuring a live version of the Great Poetry Exchange.
Bring a book of your poetry (or a book of poetry that you love) to be
randomly given to another poet in attendance in exchange for a book
from yet another attendee. Bring food for the eating, your revelry
for the co-mingling with fellow poets, and plan on reading a poem in
our open reading. Click here for the details:
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/cobalt
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THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
Issue # 638 - ISSN: 1523-6587
December 28, 2009 - January 3, 2010
this week:
~ This week featuring poets from SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, CA and
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA
~ 4 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)
~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.
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POETS OF THE WEEK
~ This week's featured poets are: PETER MARTI and ROBERT RONNOW
PETER MARTI (Santa Cruz Mountains, California) was born ub East
Chicago, Indiana height of US population boom. Raised San Jose,
California, graduated SF State University. Studied at Naropa�s
Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics with Ginsberg, Burroughs, et
al. Member of the San Francisco based poetry/art magazine collective
Birthstone in the �70s, rock n roll singer in �80s and part of the
Wordland performance poetry group in the early �90s. Nominated for a
Pushcart Prize, 2002. Published recently in Napalm Health Spa, Poetry
Super Highway, M.A.G. and in Hazmat Review and Big Scream. Currently
the chef at a Tibetan Buddhist retreat center in the Santa Cruz
Mountains.
ROBERT RONNOW (Williamston, Massachusetts) has published three poetry
collections: New & Selected Poems: 1975-2005 (Barnwood Press, 2007),
Janie Huzzie Bows (Barnwood Press, 1983) and Absolutely Smooth
Mustard (Barnwood Press, 1985, originally published as "White
Waits"). He has served as executive director of several non-profit
social service and environmental organizations. He has also been a
forest worker in the western and northeastern U.S. He plays jazz
trumpet. He lived in New York City for twenty years before relocating
to Williamstown, Massachusetts where he currently resides with his
wife and two sons.
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:
~ VALVE, THE - A LITERARY ORGAN
The Valve is a literary weblog dedicated to the proposition that the
function of the little magazine can follow this form. We mean to
foster debate and circulation of ideas in literary studies and
contiguous academic areas. Since a narrow academic focus would be
unlikely to serve this primary project, our focus is not narrowly
academic, nor purely literary. Authors are free to wander so long as
they do not make positive nuisances of themselves with respect to our
general aims.
NEW INDIVIDUAL POETS PAGES LISTINGS THIS WEEK
~ GEORGE MOORE WEBSITE
Website of poet George Moore, senior instructor at University of
Colorado in Boulder.
~ DANIEL Y. HARRIS
Daniel Y. Harris, M.Div, holds a Master of Arts in Divinity from The
University of Chicago, where he specialized in Jewish theology and
comparative religion and wrote his dissertation on The Zohar. He is
the author Unio Mystica (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009),
Hyperlinks of Anxiety (Cervena Barva Press, 2012), and co-author,
with Adam Shechter, of Paul Celan and the Messiah�s Broken Levered
Tongue (Cervena Barva Press, 2009). He is the associate editor of The
Blue Jew Yorker.
~ ANDREI CODRESCU
Andrei Codrescu was born in Sibiu, Romania, in 1946. He emigrated to
the U.S. in 1966 and became a U.S. citizen in 1981. He is a poet,
novelist, essayist, teacher, and lecturer. Codrescu is MacCurdy
Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at
Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he edits
Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Letters & Life. He is also a regular
commentator on National Public Radio and winner of the Peabody Award
for the film �Road Scholar.�
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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
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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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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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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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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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