contest winners announced next Sunday

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Thanks to Everyone Who Entered our 24th Annual Poetry Contest! We received 1220 poems from poets all over the world! A HUGE thanks to Taylor Byas, Kathleen Holliday and Jonathan Yungkans, our 3 contest judges, who are working tirelessly to individually score each poem entered. Join us next Sunday, October 3rd at 2:00 pm (Pacific) for the next broadcast of PSH Live via Zoom in the PSH Facebook Group where we'll announce the winners first. Tune in to hear all the statistics...how many people entered, average scores, and all the names of the poets who scored in the top 10 positions. If the winners happen to be watching, we'll ask them to Zoom in and read their poems as well. You're also invited (if you're in one of the top 10 scoring positions) to call in and share the poem you entered (regardless of whether it won in a post announcement open reading) or to share your experiences on having participated. Thanks to our many sponsors, the judges, and all of the contest entrants for making this year's contest a huge success! THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE PoetrySuperHighway.com | Facebook | Twitter Issue # 1239 - ISSN: 1523-6587 September 27 – October 3, 2021 this week: This week featuring poets from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and New York City, New York. 5 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 - September Open Reading archived. Next Show: Contest Winners Announcement Sunday, October 3 at 2pm (pacific) - Next Sunday! POETS OF THE WEEK   This week's featured poets are John Tustin and Sarah Sarai: John Tustin (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) has appeared in many disparate literary journals since 2009. Sarah Sarai (New York City, New York) is an independent editor in New York. Her poems are in The Southampton Review, DMQ Review, Hobo Camp Review, Barrow Street, Zocalo Public Square, and many other journals. Her collections are That Strapless Bra in Heaven, Kelsay Books/2019; Geographies of Soul and Taffeta, Indolent Books/2016; and The Future Is Happy/2009. She grew up in L.A. and still checks stats for the Dodgers. 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 Publications: EOAGH EOAGH is dedicated to the idea of reading as a process, the productive chaos of investigative poetic work. We seek to foreground the writing of experimental women, trans, feminist, transfeminist, POC, anti-racist, and LGBT/queer authors. Big City Lit We like words. Posit A journal of literature and art. Prelude Prelude is a poetry journal concerned with making nothing happen through unacknowledged legislation. Thin Slice of Anxiety, a ABOUT A Thin Slice of Anxiety is an independent publication which strives to nurture and promote the best up-and-coming writers of our generation. Writers who are brave enough to guide us into places of amalgamation where the unplumbed depths of the known are made and unmade. 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: PSH Contest Winners Announcement Sunday, October 3, 2021, 2pm (pacific) - Next Sunday! 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 Last Call! Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest Deadline: September 30. Sponsored by Winning Writers. Submit published or unpublished work to 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). Winning entries published online. Fee: $15 for each submission of 1-2 poems. Length limit: 250 lines per poem. Judged by S. Mei Sheng Frazier, assisted by Vernon Keeve III. 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/tompoetrypsh2109 For writing resources and contest opportunities, join our 135,000 followers on Twitter at @winningwriters. 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/. Last call for entries! Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest - Summer 2021 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 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/ 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 Lupert: It's The Website - & - Poetry Super Highway https://PoetrySuperHighway.com/