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[Poetry Super Highway]

Congratulations to our 2021 Poetry Contest Winners! Congratulations to Kelli Simpson, B. J. Buckley, and Mary Beth Hines for winning first through third place in our 24th annual poetry contest. You can read their winning entries here. Thanks also to our 63 sponsors who donated 225 prizes to the contest (including Rolland Vasin and Lummox Productions who donated $300 each to add to the cash prize going to the winners) insuring that every paid contest entrant will receive at least one prize regardless of their poem's score! A huge extra special thanks to our three contest judges Taylor Byas, Kathleen Holliday, and Jonathan Yungkans who diligently scored 1229 poems since the contest began to help us arrive at our 3 winners! Missed the contest announcement on PSH Live? Tune in to the archived edition on Facebook here or on our website here. THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE PoetrySuperHighway.com | Facebook | Twitter Issue # 1240 - ISSN: 1523-6587 October 4-10, 2021 this week: This week featuring poets from Norman, Oklahoma, Power, Montana and Reading, Massachusetts. 6 New poetry and writing website links added this week. The Best American Poetry 2021 edited by David Lehman and Tracy K. Smith featured this week in the PSH Bookstore: PSH LIVE - Contest Winners Announcement archived. Next Show: November Open Reading Sunday, November 7 at 2pm (pacific) POETS OF THE WEEK   This week's featured poets are the winners of our 24th annual Poetry Contest: Kelli Simpson, B. J. Buckley and Mary Beth Hines: First Place: Kelli Simpson (Norman, Oklahoma) is a mother and poet.  She has published poems in Lamplit Underground, Rabid Oak, The Avenue, Ghost City Review, and The River. Second Place: B. J. Buckley (Power, Montana) has worked in Arts in Schools/Communities programs throughout the west and midwest for over 45 years. She conducts residencies and workshops in schools, libraries, senior centers, homeless shelters, museums, at conferences, with writing groups and book clubs, and with special needs adults and children. Her poems address the stark and dangerous beauty of the west, its animals, plants, weather, geology and geography, as well as the lives of the people who choose it as home. Third Place: Mary Beth Hines (Reading, Massachusetts) is formerly a project manager who writes poetry and short fiction and non-fiction from her home in Massachusetts. Her work has been published, or is forthcoming, in journals such as Crab Orchard Review, The Galway Review, Gyroscope Review, The Lake, Literary Mama, and Sky Island Journal, among others. Read their poetry HERE. NEW POETRY AND WRITING WEBSITE LINKS Here are all of the new sites added to the Poetry Super Highway's Poetry and Writing links sections: Find thousands more links to poetry and writing websites in our online Link Directory. Click HERE to add your poetry/writing website to our directory. New Online Poetry Resources: Glasgow Review of Books The Glasgow Review of Books is a review journal publishing short and long reviews, review essays and interviews, as well as translations, fiction, poetry, and visual art. Green Ink Poetry Independent Poetry Press for unheard voices & calamitous catastrophes, Hope Punks & Hedge Witches. New Online Publications: Disquiet Arts Disquiet Arts is an alternative/gothic literary and art magazine, helmed by two Latinx creatives, Luis Aguirre and Natalie Sierra. Kingdoms in the Wild Publishers of poetry, short fiction, and writer interviews. Coastal Shelf A journal of literary arts. Taco Bell Quarterly Taco Bell Quarterly is the literary magazine for the Taco Bell Arts and Letters. We’re a reaction against everything. The gatekeepers. The taste-makers. The hipsters. Health food. Artists Who Wear Cute Scarves. Bitch-ass Wendy’s. POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE The Best American Poetry 2021  edited by David Lehman and Tracy K. Smith featured this week in the PSH Bookstore: Since 1988, The Best American Poetry series has been “one of the mainstays of the poetry publication world” (Academy of American Poets). Each volume presents a choice of the year’s most memorable poems, with comments from the poets themselves lending insight into their work. The guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2021 is Tracy K. Smith, the former United States Poet Laureate, whose own poems are, Toi Derricotte’s words, “beautiful and serene” in their surfaces with an underlying “sense of an unknown vastness.” In The Best American Poetry 2021, Smith has selected a distinguished array of works both vast and beautiful by such important voices as Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Nobel laureate Louise Glück, Terrance Hayes, and Kevin Young. Click here to purchase or for more information. Paperback, 240 Pages, Scribner, September 2021 UPCOMING POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY LIVE EVENTS We host a monthly, live, online open reading and other special shows which you can listen to and participate in here: http://poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/psh-live/ If you can't make the live time, you can also listen to any past show by visiting http://poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/psh-live/ 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: November, 2021 Worldwide Open Poetry Reading Sunday, November 7, 2021 Watch poets from all over the world read their poetry. Better yet, plan on Zooming in to read a poem live. No content or style restrictions. Use it as an opportunity to promote your new poetry book or project and let us know what’s happening in your local poetry world! Hosted by Poetry Super Highway’s Rick Lupert live in the PSH Facebook Group where a link will be posted to join in via Zoom. Recently Archived broadcasts: PSH Contest Winners Announcement Sunday, October 3, 2021 We announced the winners of our Poetry Contest here first! Check out the archived broadcast on our Facebook page! This is also the only place where we announced the people who scored in the top 10 scoring spots and invited anyone of those folks watching to call in and read their poems. September, 2021 Worldwide Open Poetry Reading Sunday, September 12, 2021 We had a great group of poets from all over the U.S. read in this month’s show, including Hanoch Guy from Elkins Park, PA, Phoenix Rises from Salt Lake City, Utah, John Dorroh (a New Orleans transplant) reading from Highland, Illinois, Indunil M. Hewage joining us again from Washington State, Richard Wiederkehr from Bellingham, Washington, Lorraine Macmilan from Bloomington, Delaware, Duane Herrman from Topeka, Kansas (his 75th reading today!), Michael Virga from Birmingham, Alabama, and Sean Mahoney from Santa Ana, California who gave us the phrase “frickin’ doohickies” in a new poem! Watch the whole thing in the player on our website here. POETRY CLASSIFIEDS For information on placing Poetry Related classifieds ads on the Poetry Super Highway website and weekly e-mail newsletter, send an e-mail to: class...@PoetrySuperHighway.com The Best Free Literary Contests: Free Newsletter Subscribe to the free Winning Writers email newsletter and receive monthly news about the best free literary contests, edited by Jendi Reiter. Join the 50,000+ people who subscribe today. When you do, you'll get immediate online access to our contest database. Browse our detailed profiles of over 200 free poetry and prose contests. We won't share your email address with anyone. Unsubscribe at any time. Subscribe now at https://winningwriters.com/freepsh2110 For daily contest news and resources, join our 135,000 followers on Twitter at https://twitter.com/winningwriters Write your best poem or story for a chance to win cash prizes totaling $1275.00! THE DREAMQUESTONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST - WINTER 2021 - 2022 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, 30 lines or fewer on any subject, form, or style. And/or (2) Write a short story, 5 pages maximum length, single or double line spacing, on any subject or theme. Genres include fiction, nonfiction, and 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: March 31, 2022. 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. 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. gtfa...@yahoo.com Visit Alex M. Frankel's Blog Supply-Side Poetics: Rising to Audienceless Bliss https://alexmfrankel.com/alex/supply-side-poetics/. 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 Dreams and Nightmares, the magazine of fantastic poetry since 1986, Print subs $25/6 issues ($30 outside North America); Sample $5. PDF $1/issue or lifetime pdf sub for $39; PayPal to jopn...@gmail.com. Open to authors of diverse backgrounds. Submissions: dckm...@gmail.com. Pmt $12 on acceptance & contributor's copy. URL: http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/. 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 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/ 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 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 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 Click here to purchase or for more information. Website Hosting with SiteGround Poetry Super Highway uses SiteGround for hosting our website. After years of being with a handful of other discount web hosts, we've found no-one rivals SiteGround's website loading speed, technical support and deep care for providing the best possible web-hosting solution. We couln't recommend them more highly. Click here for more info. We may receive a commission from SiteGround if you purchase their web-hosting services, but we would not include them here if we were not customers who found their service to be examplary. 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 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Bond Street Review, a bi-annual literary journal publishing from Rochester, New York since 2011, is now accepting submissions for the Summer 2021 issue (due out in early August) – deadline to submit is July 15th. Want to send us something? You should. And don't be shy about sharing the info with any writers whose work you think we should read. Go to https://inkpublications1.wixsite.com/mysite for submission guidelines and to read previous issues. 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/ Lupert: It's The Website - & - Poetry Super Highway https://PoetrySuperHighway.com/