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- Sponsor the 2021 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest!
Over 200 prizes have been offered by 49 sponsors so far! We're looking for prize donations for our 24th annual summer poetry contest. If you'd like to donate, books, subscriptions, services, or anything of specific interested to Poets and Writers in exchange for promotional mention in our classified section and in contest correspondence for the duration of the contest, please CLICK HERE for all the details. The contest begins Wednesday, June 30th – Watch for a special email with all the details on how to enter.
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June 28 - July 4, 2021
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POETS OF THE WEEK
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This week's featured poets are Layla Lenhardt and Jonathan Hayes.
Layla Lenhardt (Indianapolis, Indiana) is Editor in Chief of 1932 Quarterly. She has been most recently published in Rust + Moth, Glass Mountain, Poetry Quarterly, and Pennsylvania Literary Journal. She is a 4th place finalist in Poetry Super Highway’s 2019 Poetry Contest.
Jonathan Hayese (Santa Cruz, California) lives by the San Lorenzo River.
Read their poetry HERE. |
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NEW POETRY AND WRITING WEBSITE LINKS
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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:
Vallejo Poetry Society
Poetry and spoken word resources in Vallejo, California and the broader San Francisco bay area.
City of Asylum
City of Asylum builds a just community by protecting and celebrating creative free expression. We provide sanctuary to endangered literary writers, so that the writers can continue to write and their voices are not silenced. We offer a broad range of free literary, arts, and humanities programs in a community setting to build social equity through cultural exchange.
New Online Publications:
What Are Birds?
What Are Birds is an online literary journal founded in 2018. We publish poetry, prose, hybrid works, short fiction and creative nonfiction, and art.
Glass Mountain
The undergraduate literary journal at the University of Houston.
Pleiades: Literature in Context
Pleiades: Literature in Context is a literary biannual featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews by authors from around the world. Past contributors include winners of the Nobel, Ruth Lilly, Pulitzer, Bollingen, Prix de la Liberté, and Neustadt Prizes, recipients of Guggenheim, Whiting, National Book Critics Circle and National Book Awards, and many writers seeing their work in print for the first time.
New Individual Poets Pages:
Layla Lenhardt Poet
Indianapolis poet and publisher Layla Lenhardt. |
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POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE
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 African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song edited by Kevin Young featured this week in the PSH Bookstore:
A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the present.
Across a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and the Bay Area, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. Capturing the power and beauty of this diverse tradition in a single indispensable volume, African American Poetry reveals as never before its centrality and its challenge to American poetry and culture.
Click here to purchase or for more information.
Hardcover, 1170 Pages, Library of America, October 2020 |
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UPCOMING POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY LIVE EVENTS
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 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:
Conversation with 2021 PSH Contest Judges
Sunday, July 11, 2021, 2pm (pacific)
Join 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 will share valuable insights and read some of their own work as well as work that they enjoy. Moderated by Poetry Super Highway’s Rick Lupert. If time, you’ll have the chance to ask questions to the judges. (What other poetry contest gives you this kind of access to the contest judges?)
Recently Archived broadcasts:
June, 2021 Worldwide Open Poetry Reading
Sunday, June 13, 2021
Wow...our June reading was rich with poetry (and discussions of Hawaii) and included work from Feby Joseph, Duane L Herrmann, Carol Carpenter, Charlie Brice, Patrice M. Wilson, Richard Widerkehr, Indunil Madhusankha Hewage, Lb Sedlacek, Mary Kennedy Eastham, Judy Brice, Frogg Corpse, Anita Lerek and Michael Virga. Check it out on our website here or on Facebook here.
May, 2021 Worldwide Open Poetry Reading
Sunday, May 16, 2021
The May 2021 PSH Live Open Reading featured poems from Phoenix Rises, Igor Goldkind, Carol Carpenter, Lb Sedlacek, Indunil Madhusankha Hewage, Michael Virga, Kat Busch, Paul Brucker Paul an me! Watch in the player below and plan on joining us on June 13 at 2pm (pacific) for our next open reading! Watch the archived edition on our website here!
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POETRY CLASSIFIEDS
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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
NORTH STREET BOOK PRIZE FOR SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS
 It's last call to submit your self-published book to the North Street Book Prize competition, sponsored by Winning Writers. Deadline: June 30. Grand prize of $5,000. Top winner in each category will win $1,000. Categories: Mainstream/Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction, Creative Nonfiction & Memoir, Poetry, Children's Picture Book, Graphic Novel & Memoir, and Art Book (new!) $13,750 in total cash prizes. Fee: $65 per book. Gift for everyone who enters. Co-sponsors: BookBaby and Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of The Frugal Book Promoter. Final judges: Jendi Reiter and Ellen LaFleche. Submit online or by mail at winningwriters.com/northpsh2106
For writing resources and contest opportunities, join our 135,000 followers on Twitter at @winningwriters.
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.”
See Stitches and Scars on Amazon here. |
Website Hosting with SiteGround
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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
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.
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Lupert: It's The Website - & - Poetry Super Highway
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