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This week's featured poets are C.W. Bigelow and James Redfern:
C.W. Bigelow (Mooresville, North Carolina) is the author of the poetry collection Fractured Reflections. After receiving his B.A. in English from Colorado State University, C.W. Bigelow lived in nine northern states, both east and west, before moving south to the Charlotte NC area . His short stories and poems have appeared in The Flexible Persona, Literally Stories, Compass Magazine, FishFood Magazine, Five2One, Crack the Spine, Sick Lit Magazine, Midway Journal, Scarlet Leaf Review, Poydras Review, Cleaning Up Glitter, The Blue Mountain Review, Glassworks, Blood & Bourbon, The Courtship of Winds, Poetry Super Highway, Good Works Review, Backchannels, The Saturday Evening Post, among many others, with stories forthcoming in New Plains Review, Dash Literary Journal, Drunk Monkeys and Short Story Town.
James Redfern (Atascadero, California) was born and raised in Long Beach, California. Redfern is a graduate of Grinnell College. His poetry has appeared in High Shelf,Beatific Magazine, The Raw Art Review, Transcend, We Are Antifa (anthology, Into the Void), 2020: Good Writing from a Bad Year (anthology, Dutch Kills Press), Verity La: The Clozapine Clinic, Dime Show Review, Swimming with Elephants, Montana Mouthful, Anti-Heroin Chic, Great Lakes Poetry Press, Fear and Loathing in Long Beach, The American Journal of Poetry, Passengers Journal, DoveTales, Genre: Urban Arts (forthcoming), and elsewhere.
Read their poetry HERE.
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TOM HOWARD/MARGARET REID POETRY CONTEST
 Sponsored by Winning Writers, we just slashed the effective entry fee for this contest in half! Now you can enter two poems in one $15 submission. Win $3,000 for a poem in any style and $3,000 for a poem that rhymes or has a traditional style. Total prizes: $8,000. The top two winners will also receive two-year gift certificates from our co-sponsor, Duotrope (a $100 value). Both published and unpublished work accepted. Winning entries published online. Length limit: 250 lines per poem. Final judge: S. Mei Sheng Frazier.
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Build Your Own Brain by Greg Farnum
Build Your Own Brain
Poetry for the new century
By Greg Farnum
"Terrific. Much to like throughout."
--Ken Mikolowski, author of Little Mysteries and Big Enigmas.
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We are now accepting entries in our Summer 2021 contest!
THE DREAMQUESTONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST - SUMMER 2021 is open to anyone who enjoys expressing innermost thoughts and feelings into the beautiful literary art of poetry and/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 a short story, five pages maximum length, single or double line spacing, on any subject or theme. Genres include fiction, nonfiction, or creative nonfiction (including essay compositions, diary, journal entries, stage plays, and screenwriting). Multiple and simultaneous entries are accepted. Prizes: Writing First Prize is $500; Second: $250; Third: $100. Poetry First Prize: $250; Second: $125; Third: $50. Entry fees: $5 per poem/$10 per story. Postmark deadline: September 22, 2021. How to enter, visit https://www.dreamquestone.com
| Stitches and Scars by Rolland Vasin
 Rolland Vasin aka Vachine, found his poetic voice in the Day Room of UCLA’s 6 West unit for Mental Illness Recovery. A Vietnam Veteran treated for war-related stresses, Rolland found solace in written and verbal expressions in modern poetic verse. His work is gutturally compelling, humorous, ironic, self-revealing, and has been described as “a novella in fourteen lines.”
See Stitches and Scars on Amazon here.
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God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion by Rick Lupert
 With just a few exquisite words, Rick Lupert fills in the white spaces between the Torah's words, and offers holy insight, life wisdom, reverent irreverence, and sacred depth. It takes a poet to find the poetry of Torah, and a great teacher to share it. Rick is both. His book is a gift to us all. -Rabbi Ed Feinstein
One can always count on Rick to see things in ways that we would not otherwise have seen them. He has succeeded in finding messages within each parashah that are simultaneously uniquely personal and entirely universal. Humor and depth abound. Rick amplifies the timeless nature of the words of Torah, and fills each page with new perspectives. -Cantor Ellen Dreskin
Rick Lupert’s poetry is witty, knowing, wise, and a tonic to the seeking soul. -Rabbi David Wolpe
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I Wish My Father, a memoir-in-verse by Lesléa Newman
I Wish My Father, a memoir-in-verse by Lesléa Newman explores the journey of an adult daughter through the last years of her father’s life as with great anger and sadness, he moves from husband to widow, attoreny to retiree, tennis player to spectator, driver to passenger, and homeowner to independent living resident. "A big-hearted masterpiece that has my whole-hearted recommendation.” — Alexandra Umlas, Cultural Weekly https://lesleanewman.com/books-for-adults/poetry/i-wish-my-father/
The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express by Rick Lupert
 Rick Lupert’s 25th collection of poems and latest travelogue written in Japan while visiting Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hiroshima, follows in the footsteps of Richard Brautigan and is loosely inspired by his title The Tokyo-Montana Express. Follow Lupert through Japan with his signature wit and poet’s eye as your guide, as he stands in the mysterious “stick line”, as indescribable food is put in his mouth (and described anyway), as a monkey crawls on his head, as Hiroshima looms at the end of it all.
"His poems are funny, moving, insightful, and full of a traveler’s wonder and bemusement.” –Ianthe Brautigan
Click here to read poems from The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express
NEW RELEASE FROM INK PUBLICATIONS
Satan In Chicago is the nineth chapbook from writer Eric Evans through Ink Publications, and features his take on far-flung topics like Fahrenheit 451, soldiers in the Terracotta Army, the beauty of eclectic music collections, the lovemaking habits of acrobats, and the judgmental nature of crows. “Fans of poetry that is direct and filled with heartbreak and humor,’ writes Broken Pencil magazine, “must check out Evans’ work.”
“Evans has an open and forgiving heart, and a mind that embraces the more complicated truths through his use of juxtaposition. Evans’ poems fully inhabit both the exhilaration and the pain of life’s various changes.” – Alicia Hoffman, author of Railroad Phoenix and Like Stardust in the Peat Moss
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Unlikely Stories
www.UnlikelyStories.org has been live on the web since 1998, and publishes literature, criticism of art and society, visual art, movies, and music, as well as 3-5 books a year. Check us out at https://www.UnlikelyStories.org/
Space Cowboy Books
Support Indie Bookstores! Space Cowboy Books is an independent brick and mortar bookstore in Joshua Tree, CA - specializing in science fiction but also carrying a wide range of general interest books. We host author events, produce Simultaneous Times podcast, and carry a wide range of local authors and poets. Visit our online store. https://bookshop.org/shop/spacecowboybooks
Dead Shark on the N Train by Susana H. Case
Dead Shark on the N Train, from Broadstone Books, 2020, which won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book, a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite, and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award is available at https://www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/dead-shark-on-the-n-train-poetry-by-susana-h-case or at: www.susanahcase.com.
“Dead Men Don’t Know Jack” - western poems by LB Sedlacek
“Dead Men Don’t Know Jack” - western poems by LB Sedlacek now available. Includes her most popular poem the title poem based on Wild Bill Hickok’s death. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096LS1CYW
This book of poetry contains my most popular poem, the title poem, “Dead Men Don’t Know Jack”. It’s a poem based on a character actor I knew who was in a play based on the death of Wild Bill Hickok in South Dakota.
The other poems in this collection cover a range of ideas, thoughts, themes and styles. It’s my special almost western array of poems with some regular verses thrown in as well.
Enter the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) Speculative Poetry Contest!
Enter the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association’s annual Speculative Poetry Contest! Blind judged by Sheree Renée Thomas (editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) this contest awards cash prizes ($150 First Prize, $75 Second Prize, $25 Third Prize) in three categories (Dwarf, Short, and Long), plus publication on the SFPA website. Please visit the contest page https://sfpoetry.com/contests.html for more details and submission guidelines.
Dreams and Nightmares Magazine
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Lummox Productions
Since 1994, Lummox Productions has supported the small press and it's poets. With a catalog of over 150 publications, there is something for everyone. Recent books include Stitches and Scars by Vachine (2021). www.lummoxpress.com
Red Thread Through a Rusty Needle: Poetry by Gay Guard-Chamberlin
Award-winning Chicago poet Gay Guard-Chamberlin's collection, Red Thread Through a Rusty Needle, now available. Three dozen evocative poems that explore the natural world, mothers and daughters, the inner life of words, and the secret lives of ordinary objects. Her sister, award-winning Sacramento poet Anara Guard's collection, Hand on My Heart, contains 35 poignant and powerful poems of praise and lament, floods and heat waves, love and Mason jars. Buy them both as a discounted "Sister Set." Visit siblingrevelrypoetry.newwindpublishing.com
Compulsive Reader
Reviews of books by some of the hottest writers working today, interviews, literary news, and giveaways galore. It's a haven for book lovers. http://www.compulsivereader.com
To Light a House of Bones By Carey Link (Blue Light Press)
To Light a House of Bones
Reading Carey Link's new collection, I found myself breathing more slowly, easing into a world of light, color, and, most importantly, attentiveness to the moment. These poems of hard-earned transcendence admit that, yes, we all live in a 'house of bones' but also assert the possibility of transcendence: through language, through the tenderness of the mother-daughter bond, through lyrical vision. Floating in this book, I felt an amniotic sustenance, a challenge to be continually reborn, and to live fully.
- Jennifer Horne, Alabama Poet Laureate, author of Bottle Tree and Borrowed Light, Little Wanderer
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