POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY 88 free e-books tonight!
Rick Lupert
able to freely download one or two or all of the 88 e-books donated
for the Poetry Super Highway's Great E-Book Free-For-All.
Where to click? Visit the Poetry Super Highway's main page starting
at Midnight (pacific, GMT -8), tonight, April 30 (technically May
1st) for the link to the page with all of the e-books. This page
will be available for 24 hours.
It's a free-for-all!
--> Holocaust Remembrance Day is this Thursday, May 5th.
We're looking for submissions of poetry written in response to the
Holocaust for next week's Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
issue. Please send your work, along with a bio of any length which
includes what city you live in to PO...@PoetrySuperHighway.com by this
Friday, May 6 to be considered for this special issue.
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THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
ISSN: 1523-6587
May 2 - 8, 2005
this week:
~ This week featuring poets from BROOKLYN, NY and HOUSTON, TX
~ 5 new poetry and writing related link added this week.
~ WHAT USE AM I A HUNGRY GHOST? by MARC OLMSTED featured this week
in the PSH Bookstore.
~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.
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POETS OF THE WEEK
~ This week's featured poets are: AKIVA WEITZELBAUM and PEDRO RIVAS:
AKIVA WEITZELBAUM (Brooklyn, New York) is a local Brooklyn day
laborer who writes poetry at night.
PEDRO RIVAS (Houston, Texas) is 23 years old, attends Houston
Community College. He likes starring at the sun and running with
scissors. He is lazy and good looking, quite possibly too good
looking.
Click on "FEATURED POETS" from the main PSH menu to read their
winning poems.
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NEW POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY LINKS
~ Here are all of the new sites added to the Poetry Super Highway's
3 links sections.
You can find the actual links on the PSH website in the 3 poetry
links categories. Click on "Add Your Link Here" from the main
PSH menu to add your poetry/writing website to our directory.
NEW ONLINE PUBLICATIONS LISTINGS THIS WEEK:
~ THE NEXT PAGE
The Next Page is a quarterly literary e-zine featuring poetry,
fiction, prose, interviews, essays, and more.
NEW INDIVIDUAL POETS PAGES LISTINGS THIS WEEK:
~ EVVY GARRETT POET & WRITER
poetry, poetics, literary services, ebooks and other stuff.
~ POETRYRING.COM - THE POETRY OF DANIEL F MITCHELL
The complete published poetry of Daniel F Mitchell. Two online
books: Wisps, The Garden of Dreams
~ GG RE
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~ NADIABROWN.COM MESSAGE BOARD
Post your announcements, news, projects, reviews, poems, articles,
books, friendly sites, questions, complaints, call for submissions,
contest,etc. Please no pornography, erotica, or profanity, racial
comments!
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POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE
Featured this week in PSH Bookstore:
WHAT USE AM I A HUNGRY GHOST? by MARC OLMSTED
"Olmsted's sinuous poetry moves on the page... thoughts at the instant
they become muscular movements."
~ Michael McClure
"This book is a fierce and honest portrayal of the struggle toward
realization..."
~ Diane di Prima
~ If you are or were a featured poet of the week on the Poetry Super
Highway AND you have a book available through Amazon.com, please
let me know so we can feature your work in the Poetry Super Highway
Bookstore in a new section just for former featured poet's books.
Write mailto:bo...@PoetrySuperHighway.com with your name and the
title of the book.
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AND SO ON . . .
~ The Poetry Super Highway was accessed 929 times since last week.
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POETRY CLASSIFIEDS
~ For information on placing Poetry Related classifieds ads on the
Poetry Super Highway web page and weekly e-mail outburst,
mailto:class...@PoetrySuperhighway.com
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3-Day Email Poetry Workshops Focusing on Revision
with Ryan Tranquilla, former director of California Programs for
Poets & Writers, Inc. Drafts and comments conveniently exchanged via
email with up to five other participants. By the third day, you will
complete a full cycle of writing a new poem and revising it at least
twice, learning more about yourself and your work in the process.
Individual attention from instructor and feedback from all workshop
members. Cost: $90
For more information: ry...@ryantranquilla.com or
http://www.ryantranquilla.com/
2005 workshops (Fri. through Sun.): June 10-12 July 8-10 Aug. 26-28
Sept. 16-18 Oct. 21-23 Nov. 11-13 Dec. 2-4
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When great players gather over chessboards, great venues provide the
backdrop. A longtime chess reporter recalls three sites, Lone Pine,
California, Tilburg, Holland, and Brussels, with personality sketches
linked to location. Photos of GMs and locales, anecdotes. Plus poems
and a short story related to chess coverage.
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Bodo presents "Ghosts of Future Children" spoken word with original
tracks, played and recorded by BODO, bassist of the Abstract Jazz
Arrangement...metaphysical and spiritual poetry, relaxing, but
thought provoking, inviting, erotic, revolutionary and experimental...
the supernatural with a beat, and beats to reach the soul within...CD
is now on sale for $20.00 via http://www.abstractjazzarrangement.com
and contact me for poets of the world can, and should, unite...PEACE
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The San Fernando Branch of the California Writers Club will sponsor
their annual Writers Journey Conference June 3rd and June 4th. At
the Sisters of Assisi Retreat House in San Fernando. The focus this
year is on the Mystery of Writing. June 3rd at 7PM we are having a
Who-Dun-It party where we plan to hob-nob with the faculty. ($25
dollars additional) Come and find out who we kill off! Retired
Detective turned writer Lee Lofland will be our Slueth. You can stay
overnight at the retreat for $65 per person - limited space -
register in advance.
June 4th begins the all day conference $85 for CWC members ($95 for
nonmembers) includes bagel and coffee breakfast, snacks and lunch.
Speakers: Jacqueline Winspear, Tess Holthe, Lee Goldberg
Faculty: Editor/Winner of the Allen Ginsberg Award Kate Hale Ph. D.,
Agent/Lawyer Paul S. Levine, Screenwriter/Producer Madeline DiMaggio,
Author/Writers Mentor Cathleen Rountree, Ph.D., Writer/Agatha winner
Penny Warner, Writer/Consultant Lee Lofland, Author Betty Auchard,
Writer Carmen Rutlen
Check out the details on our website - http://www.CalWritersSFV.com/
Contact Carol Wood for more information at pr...@hazelst.com
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Our 2005 Annual anthology has been published; The Israel Voices
Poetry anthology; registered at the Washington State Library and
available through me for US$20 which includes airmail postage. My
address is Mike Scheidemann, Kibbutz Yizre'el, Doar Na Yizre'el
19350, Israel. Cheques should be in the name of Voices Israel. We
also encourage submissions for our 2006 anthology (up to 4 poems in
7 copies) and also to be sent by Email to; Tom Berman,
Kibbutz Amiad, Galil Elyon, Israel 12335. Email; ber...@amiad.org.il.
A donation of US$10 is appreciated but optional. We would also like
to refer fellow poets to our website; http://voicesIsrael.com/
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Well, Cait Collins and Robert Creeley are both dead, American
activists are being searched at airports for super-secret reasons,
and the new Viet Nam era has begun, but hey! I'm in the San Francisco
Bay Area on vaction! And by "vacation," I mean that I am tirelessly
working to provide politics and literature to a world that would
rather have its eyelids ripped out than read anything! So without
further ado, please examine our latest issue of
http://www.UnlikelyStories.org/ , including:
SGT Marshall Smith, reporting from three miles outside of Fallujah
Jonathan Penton fights the Transportation Security Administration;
TSA wins Julie Ann Keller fights the women's health care clinic;
females lose Dan Schneider presents a Muscular Centrist Attack on
the Pro-War Position fiction by P. S. Ehrlich, Wayne Scheer, P Moss,
Benjamin Bower and Anne McMillen X-rated sonnets by Bryon P. Howell
more poetry by Michael Rothenberg, Lawrence Welsh, W. B. Keckler,
Sheema Kalbasi, Len Bourret, Mike Duron, Kristi Swadley and Kurtice
Kucheman T. S. Ross on "The Passion of the Christ" as Soft-Core Porn
and A Sardine on Vacation, Episode Twenty-Five
And check out the last multimedia update, including:
Three songs by Avalon Frost (and an interview with Ms. Frost from
Danielle Grilli), Three spoken word pieces by jUStin!katKO, Six
paintings by NeBa and a short film by Brent M. Parker
I need to see a dentist!
Mad love,
Jonathan Penton
http://www.unlikelystories.org
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Meeting of the Minds Publications is now open for submissions for
their Men's Edition (entitled the Macho Issue 12). We are open to
all genres of poetry however if you have anything special written
for fathers, your husband, son, etc. it will greatly contribute to
the theme of our issue. Please submit to poeti...@hotmail.com for
more information go to
http://www.meetingofthemindsjournal.com/guidelines.html
Chapbook Enterprises, a division of Meeting of the Minds
Publications, is now open for manuscripts for our third series of
chapbooks due to launch in September. We are giving an opportunity
for beginning to intermediate poets who have never been published to
be published under us. We would like to offer you a chance to be
published for free (20 chapbooks), free web page and free
advertisement. There will be a $10.00 reading fee and an essay of,
Why Did You Start Writing.
Please submit your work to:
Meeting of the Minds Publications
Shaela Phillips
110 Atwood Street, Suite 247
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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WAR POETRY CONTEST
Prizes of $1,500, $500, $250 and 10 honorable mentions of $75 each.
Submit 1-3 original, unpublished poems on the theme of war, up to 500
lines in all. $12 entry fee, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark
deadline: May 31. Judge: Jendi Reiter. Submit online or mail to
Winning Writers, Attn: War Poetry Contest, 351 Pleasant Street,
PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060. More information:
http://www.winningwriters.com/annualcontest.htm?psh05q2
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This is the cheapest way to get bookstore quality books of your
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Visit http://www.instantpublisher.com/default.asp?afcc=1172 for
more info!
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PUT YOUR POEMS ON T-SHIRTS!
(or your pictures, images, website logos, poetry on t-shirts,
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lunch boxes, stickers, postcards, calendars, frisbees, and more!)
Set up your store for free and earn commission from every sale or
order merchandise for yourself or for gifts.
visit:
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for the details.
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FREE POETRY WORKSHOP!
Saturday, April 16, 2005
1-4 pm
Placentia Library meeting room
411 E. Chapman Ave.
Placentia CA 92870
(714) 528-1906
corner of Chapman and Kramer in NE Orange County
Make your poetry come to life with this "Poetry and the Senses"
workshop with Mark States! Many of the strongest, most memorable
images relate to our own senses of sight, sound, smell, touch and
taste. We'll review examples in contemporary literature and poetry
performance, then in written exercises we'll learn how to spice our
own poetry with images and descriptions to excite the senses of our
readers.
For further information on this or any other poetry programs at
Placentia Library, email meredk...@yahoo.com
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Call For Submissions: The Circle Magazine is accepting submissions
for both the print and online versions. Pays in copies of the
quarterly print zine. Currently, we are seeking short stories,
features and poetry...any topic, any style. Also accepting artwork
and photographs. We are also seeking columnists for the web edition
on a variety of subjects. We are a literary magazine and respect
those working to advance ideas through language, preferably without
the gratuitous use of obscene language or content. Press run is
usually between 2,000-5,000+ copies, depending on ad revenue.
E your submissions to circ...@aol.com or put a stamp on it to:
The Circle Magazine, 173 Grandview Road, Wernersville, PA 19565.
More info can be obtained at our site:
http://www.circlemagazine.com/
Copies of The Circle can be ordered at the same address...$4.00.
Direct your poetry submissions to: Michael Clipman, Poetry Editor
All other submissions to: Penny Talbert, Editor
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STOLEN MUMMIES, Rick Lupert's 9th AND most recent book. Poetry
written in London, England with Compact Disc Recording of sounds,
commentary and observations recorded live, on the fly in the UK.
Check it out: http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/sm.html
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