POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY contest deadline in 2 weeks!
Rick Lupert
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The 2011 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest is steaming along!
Thanks to our many sponsors, in addition to the cash prizes to the
contest winners, everyone will get a poetry/writing related prize
just for entering! Enter now! Click on "2011 Contest" from the main
PSH Menu ( http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/PoetLinks.html )for all the
details, or email guide...@poetrysuperhighway.com to have the
guidelines automatically e-mailed to you.
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THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
Issue # 726 - ISSN: 1523-6587
September 19-25, 2011
this week:
~ This week featuring poets from Pontiac, IL and Philadelphia, PA
~ 3 new poetry and writing links added this week.
~ Ghosts in Time and Space by Douglas Richardson featured this week in
the PSH Bookstore:
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~ PSH LIVE Schedule: Next Show: Contest Winners Announcement
Oct. 16, 2pm Pacific.
~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.
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POETS OF THE WEEK
~ This week's featured poets are: Daniel J. Fitzgerald and John
Oliver Mason:
Daniel J. Fitzgerald (Pontiac, Illinois) started writing a number of
years ago. When he discovered he could not write in complete
sentences, he started writing poetry. He worked for a long time in
the prepress print industry until technology took those jobs away. He
is currently employed in the meat and bakery departments of a local
grocer and is hoping that they will open a candle department to
further his career. Some of the magazines and journals he has been
published in are Poetalk, Nomads Choir, Writers� Journal, and
TheAdvocate.
John Oliver Mason (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) graduated from Temple
University in 1984, with a Bachelor�s degree in History. His poems
have been published in The Angry Poet, Poet�s Page, Philadelphia
Tribune, Poet�s Attic, Jewish Frontier, ECT!, Philadelphia Inquirer,
and the anthologies Meridian Bound, Poetry Ink 2005, Poetry Ink: The
Tenth Anniversary Anthology, Poetry Ink 2009, and Poetry Ink 2010.
His poem, �Heaven Down There,� won an Honorable Mention in
Tit-Elation.com. His poem �The Image of God,� won an Honorable
Mention in the 75th Annual Writer�s Digest Writing Competition.
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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 POETRY RESOURCES LISTINGS THIS WEEK:
DeviantArt
Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art,
skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry
/ prose.
NEW INDIVIDUAL POETS PAGES LISTINGS THIS WEEK:
A Poet's Progress
The wonderings, ramblings, and writings of a poet in progress.
Anita Poems
Includes an assorted collection of rhyming poetry that are may be
shared with family and friends.
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POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE
Ghosts in Time and Space by Douglas Richardson featured this week in
the PSH Bookstore.
There's a divine oddness in Ghosts in Time and Space, a bit of
steampunk, a bit of grace, as though this catalogue of ghosts
appeared, in a darkened room, as love children of Edward Gorey, say,
and photographer Stephen Berkman, spliced with faded color pages
lifted from LIFE or TIME. Here, we have a not-so-distant cousin of
Spoon River Anthology or Winesburg, Ohio--updated to catch a hint of
Pearl Jam, Vegas, Betty Boop--in a "town" grown virtually wide. These
sometimes-entwined narratives of disconnection are properly haunting,
but with the lightest (most ghostly?) possible touch. I can imagine
them sitting on a shelf in the Museum of Jurassic Technology, next to
The Vintage Book of Amnesia--except that Richardson's ghosts are
haunted by memory, not its lack.
--Sarah Maclay
Ghosts in Time and Space is magnificent--a barrage of imagery that
Richardson somehow manages to pull together and bind into a portrait
of visceral emotion.
--Francisco Dominguez (Aim�)
Ghosts in Time and Space by Douglas Richardson is a fantastic book.
Vivid, haunting, profound and lush. Beautiful.
--Ellyn Maybe
Douglas Richardson's fine collection of poems wrestles death and
memory to the ground without apology. His language is tight and to
the point. His images stun the senses.
--James Owen Shepard, Poet/Playwright
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Paperback, 62 Pages, Published by Weak Creature Press (July, 2011)
~ 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:
2011 Poetry Contest Winners Announcement
Sunday, October 16, 2011 ~ 2:00 pm (pacific)
We'll announce the winners of the 2011 Poetry Super Highway Poetry
Contest here first. Tune in for this popular annual broadcast. Anyone
scoring in the top 10 positions who happens to be listening will be
invited to call in and read your poem on the air. Don't miss it!
Check out the contest details here:
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/pshco.html
Recently Archived broadcasts:
September 2011 Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday, September 4, 2011
This month's show featured callers from Picture Rock, AZ, Newark, NJ
(of course), Ashland, VA, Sonoma, CA nad San Pedro, CA. Also a spoken
word track from recently departed poet Scott Wannberg and a couple of
interesting conversations about whether or not poets should be paid.
August 2011 Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Super packed show of poetry from all over the U.S.A. including poets
from Newark, NJ, San Francisco, CA, Picture Rock, AZ, Washington, DC,
West Hollywood, CA Cincinnati, OH, Berkeley, CA, Cushing, OK and
Central Florida. Listen anytime in the archive!
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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TOM HOWARD/JOHN H. REID POETRY CONTEST - LAST CALL!
Ninth year. Ten cash prizes totaling $5,550. Top prize $3,000. Submit
poems in any style or genre. Both published and unpublished work
accepted. All entries that win cash prizes will be published on
WinningWriters.com (overone million page views per year) and announced
in the Winning Writers Newsletter, with over 35,000 subscribers.
Entry fee is $7 for every 25 lines, payable to Winning Writers.
Postmark deadline: September 30. Judges: John H. Reid, Dee C. Konrad.
Submit online or mail to Winning Writers, Attn: Tom Howard Poetry
Contest, 351 Pleasant Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060. Winning
Writers is one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers"(Writer's
Digest, 2005-2011).
More information: http://www.winningwriters.com/tompoetry
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SECOND SUNDAY POETRY SERIES: This open mic poetry reading series,
hosted by Alex M. Frankel, takes place on the second Sunday of every
month at the Cafe Alibi in Old Town Pasadena. Great local and
national poets are featured. They perform their work, sell and sign
books and mingle with audience members and open mic participants.
Admission is free but there is a one drink minimum.
Next reading: Sunday, August 11, 5 pm. Featured readers Susan Rogers,
Lois P. Jones and Sherman Pearl.
This is Pasadena's leading poetry event! For more about the series
please email alexmfra...@att.net The Cafe Alibi is at 84 South
Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, near Green St.
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"Twisting," a new poetry chapbook by LB Sedlacek, is now available.
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Sinzibuckwud! The Poet's Experiences in, and on the way to and from,
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Rick Lupert�s 13th collection of poetry, written during a week-long
adventure in, and on the way to and from, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Rivers are crossed, food is eaten, French is spoken, art is looked
at�and it is all disassembled with Lupert�s characteristic wit. This
poetic travelogue is a must for fans of Lupert�s work and anyone who
is considering travelling to Montreal�or who has ever been�or who has
ever heard the word �Montreal.� Sinzibuckwud is the native Canadian
word for �Drawn from Wood��as in maple syrup. Sweetness is also drawn
from these poems�Sugar off with Lupert.
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A Poet's Haggadah: Passover Through the Eyes of Poets edited by Rick
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36 Poets reinterpret the traditional themes and text of the Passover
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Penton, Joan Pond, Lanie Shanzyra P. Rebancos, Richard Schiffman, G.
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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
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