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This week's featured poets are the 3 judges of the 2021 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest Taylor Byas, Kathleen Holliday and Jonathan Yungkans.
Taylor Byas (Cincinnati, Ohio) is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is now a third year PhD student and Yates scholar at the University of Cincinnati, and an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus. She was the 1st place winner of both the Poetry Super Highway and the Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contests. Her work appears or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, Glass, Iron Horse Literary Review, Hobart, Frontier Poetry, SWWIM, TriQuarterly, and others. Her chapbook, Bloodwarm, is forthcoming from Variant Lit this summer. She is represented by Rena Rossner of The Deborah Harris Agency.
Kathleen Holliday (Salish Sea, Washington) lives on an island in the Salish Sea in Washington State. Her writing has appeared in The Bellingham Review, The Blue Nib Literary Magazine, Cathexis Northwest Press, Common Ground Review, Ocotillo Review, Poetry Super Highway, SHARK REEF, and The Write Launch. She is a graduate of Augsburg University, Minneapolis, MN. Her debut chapbook, Putting My Ash on the Line, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2020. Two of her poems, “Indoor Life” and “The Wine-Dark Sea” were tied for 4th place in the Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contests 2019 and 2020. Her poem, Boatman, Pass By, was a finalist in the Fish Poetry Prize 2021, judged by Billy Collins.
Jonathan Yungkans (Los Angeles, California) is a writer and photographer who earned an MFA from California State University, Long Beach while working as an in-home health-care provider, an occupation he continues to this day. His work has appeared in High Shelf Press, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Panoply: A Literary Zine, San Pedro Poetry Review, Synkroniciti and other publications. His second poetry chapbook, Beneath a Glazed Shimmer, won the 2019 Clockwise Chapbook Prize and was published by Tebot Bach in 2021..
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Here are all of the new sites added to the Poetry Super Highway's Poetry and Writing links sections:
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New Online Poetry Resources:
Moonstone Arts Center
The Moonstone Arts Center in Philadelphia promotes creative exchange through diverse cultural programs. Each year Moonstone produces over 200 public events including poetry.
Variant Literature
A nonprofit publisher supporting authors & artists.
New Online Publications:
Poetry Question, the
The voice of independent poetry. Reviews.
Stone of Madness Press
Stone of Madness Press is a physical [online] and conceptual space for queer, trans, and neurodiverse writers. This project is born of the belief that you belong here, too.
Sundog
Sundog Lit is committed to publishing pieces that engage with tension, introspection, empathy, considered positionality, thoughtful form play, emotional courage, and musicality.
Soft Punk Magazine
Soft Punk is a literary arts and culture magazine based in London. We are intentionally agnostic of a “house style” and liberated from dogmatic conceptions of brow.
perhappened
perhappened is an online literary journal & press, founded by editor-in-chief isaura ren in 2020 & 2021, respectively. perhappened is a portmanteau of the words "perhaps" & "happened," which highlights its focus on those peculiar experiences that make you wonder: "did that really happen, or did i just imagine it?" perhappened lives for your uncertain & surreal.
Flypaper Lit
The best in contemporary poetry, prose, and reviews. Calls Ohio home. We want the griefs no-one talks about, the yellow grace named joy, the momentous, the electric, and the eclectic. |
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TOM HOWARD/MARGARET REID POETRY CONTEST
 ISponsored 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.
This contest is recommended by Reedsy as one of the best of 2021. See past winners, advice from the judge, and submit online at https://winningwriters.com/tompoetrypsh2107
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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.
gtfa...@yahoo.com
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: WWriting 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.”
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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/
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.
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
Red Thread Through a Rusty Needle by Gay Guard-Chamberlain
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
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/
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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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
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