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  • 3 Weeks Left to Enter the 2021 Contest!
    We have 500 entries in so far! $1 per poem entry. All divided up amongst three winners. Poems read blindly by three judges, AND thanks to our many generous sponsors, we hope to be able to give everyone who enters a prize of interest to poets and writers just for entering (in addition to the cash prize for the top three scoring poems.) Enter now!  Click here for all the details.

THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
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Issue # 1235 - ISSN: 1523-6587

August 30 – September 5, 2021

this week:

POETS OF THE WEEK
 

This week's featured poets are Elyse Hart and Pamela Gemme:

Elyse Hart (Los Angeles, California) is a poet and musician from Los Angeles. Her poetry has appeared in The Nervous Breakdown, The Los Angeles Press, Okay Donkey Mag, and others. In 2020, her composition Five Poems of Mirabai for Flute and Soprano won top prize in a competition at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG).

Pamela Gemme (Leicester, Massachusetts) is a poet, artist, and a child protection social worker for the Department of Children and Families. Pamela has been a social justice advocate and a political activist through-out her life. Pamela is an essential employee. Pamela is the former art editor of the Lily Poetry Review. Pamela is the co-editor of Essential Anthology forthcoming from West VA Borderless Books in 2022. She lives in Massachusetts. She has recent or forthcoming publications in many journals and anthologies. including The American Journal of Poetry, Haiku Journal, The Ghazal Page, The Chicago Quarterly Review, Heliotrope Anthology, J Journal, Eclipse Literary Journal and many 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:

Los Angeles Press, the
The Los Angeles Press publishes the best in art and literature from Los Angeles and the West. We’re dedicated to lifting up so-called marginalized and traditionally underrepresented artists and writers.

Make Poetry Concrete
A Newton, Massachusetts project in which poems were stamped into concrete throughout the town.

New Online Publications:

Okay Donkey
At OKD Magazine, we like to read the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like things that are funny, things that are sad, and things that are funny and sad at the same time. We especially love to read the experimental, the surreal, and the genre-bending.

FERAL
A journal of poetry and art
.

Eastern Iowa Review
Eastern Iowa Review was established in 2014 as an offshoot of Port Yonder Press which no longer publishes books. We seek the linguistically unique and beautiful: lyricism is prized here so it stands to reason that our favorite writing forms are the prose poem and the lyric essay. 

New Inividual Poets Pages:

hankrules2011
Personal blog/website of Scott C Holstad, including listings and links for his books, some of his poems, book reviews, articles and other writing, and links to a few select publications (including Poetry Super Highway), among other varying topics.

Elyse Hart
I write poetry, music, and copy.

Garden of Words
Tended by poet Frances Donovan.


POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE

The Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Presses 2021 Edition (The Pushcart Prize Anthologies, 45) Edited by Billl HendersonThe Pushcart Prize XLV: Best of the Small Presses 2021 Edition (The Pushcart Prize Anthologies, 45) Edited by Billl Henderson featured this week in the PSH Bookstore:

The 45th edition of the most celebrated literary series in America. Pushcart Prize XLV is continuing evidence that much of today’s vibrant writing appears only in small journals and book presses.The series has been selected for Publishers Weekly Carey Thomas Award, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof citation, and the Poets and Writers/Barnes and Noble “Writers For Writers” award among others.Here are 70 authors from more than 50 presses as selected from the nominations of 220 distinguished Contributing Editors and 800 participating presses.Recent reviews include: “Essential.” Library Journal“Must reading” Kirkus Reviews“Distinguished.”

New York Times Book Review

Click here to purchase or for more information.

Paperback, 600 Pages, Pushcart Press, December 2021


UPCOMING POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY LIVE EVENTS

PSH LiveWe 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:

September, 2021 Worldwide Open Poetry Reading
Sunday, September 12, 2021, 2pm (pacific)

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.

PSH Contest Winners Announcement
Sunday, October 3, 2021, 2pm (pacific)

We’ll announce the winners of our Poetry Contest here first! Watch live on our Facebook page or join in on Zoom! (Zoom link will be published just prior to the event’s start.) We’ll also announce the people who scored in the top 10 scoring spots and invite anyone in those spots to read their poem if they’re watching! Enter the contest by Saturday, September 18th.

Recently Archived broadcasts:

August, 2021 Worldwide Open Poetry Reading
Sunday, August 8, 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.

Conversation with 2021 PSH Contest Judges 
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Watch my conversation with the 2021 Poetry Contest Judges (in the Poetry Super Highway Facebook Group via Zoom) to learn what they look for when they are scoring your contest entry poems. They shared valuable insights and read some of their own work as well as work that they enjoy. Moderated by Poetry Super Highway’s Rick Lupert. See the entry guidelines and enter the contest 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


TOM HOWARD/MARGARET REID POETRY CONTEST

TOM HOWARD/MARGARET REID POETRY CONTESTSponsored 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

For writing resources and contest opportunities, join our 135,000 followers on Twitter at @winningwriters.


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

WERGLE FLOMP HUMOR POETRY CONTEST (no fee) 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


Caesura Poetry Workshop with John Sibley Williams

Visit Alex M. Frankel's Blog

Visit Alex Frankel's BlogSupply-Side Poetics: Rising to Audienceless Bliss

https://alexmfrankel.com/alex/supply-side-poetics/.

 


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

God Wrestler by Rick LupertWith 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

Website Hosting with SiteGroundPoetry 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

The Tokyo-Van Nuys Express. Poems written in Japan by Rick LupertRick 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/


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/.



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