POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY you've got poems, we've got prizes
Rick Lupert
The 2010 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest is well under way.
Thanks to our many sponsors, in addition to the cash prizes to the
contest winners, everyone will get a poetry/writing related prize
just for entering! Enter now! Click on "2010 Contest" from the main
PSH Menu for all the details, or email
guide...@poetrysuperhighway.com to have the guidelines
automatically e-mailed to you.
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THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
Issue # 669 - ISSN: 1523-6587
August 9-15, 2010
this week:
~ This week featuring poets from AUSTIN, TX amd DAYTONA BEACH, FL
~ 2 new poetry and writing links added this week.
~ B IS FOR BAD POETRY BY PAMELA AUGUST RUSSELL featured
this week in the PSH Bookstore (more guilty pleasure)
~ PSH LIVE Schedule: Next show: Judges Conversation Archived / Open
Reading August 22
~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.
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POETS OF THE WEEK
~ This week's featured poets are: JOE BLANDA and A.J. HUFFMAN:
JOE BLANDA (Austin, Texas) makes his living editing technical stuff
and playing music. He also writes poetry and songs.
A.J. HUFFMAN (Daytona Beach, Florida) is a poet and freelance writer
in who has previously published work in literary journals, in the
U.K. as well as America, such as Avon Literary Intelligencer, Eastern
Rainbow, Medicinal Purposes Literary Review, The Intercultural
Writer's Review, Icon, Writer's Gazette, and The Penwood Review.
Read their work by clicking on "POETS OF THE WEEK" from the main PSH
menu.
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NEW POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY LINKS
Here are all of the new sites added to the Poetry Super Highway's
poetry and writing 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 INDIVIDUAL POETS PAGES LISTINGS THIS WEEK:
ROUGH VERSE PROJECT
A poet's quest to conquer writer's block by writing one poem every
day for a year. (And possibly longer!)
THE VERY BAD POET
A melange of words stitched up with dubious intent by Pamela August
Russell
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POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE
B IS FOR BAD POETRY by PAMELA AUGUST RUSSELL featured this week in
the PSH Bookstore.
PSH Editor says: another guilty pleasure.
Forget Shakespeare. Donąt count on Donne. Shelley and Keats:
banished! And thereąs absolutely no poet laureate from the golden or
any other age. So fawning PhDs in love with little-understood verses
by long-dead writers should go elsewhere. This is poetry for the rest
of us‹bad poetry! Pamela Russelląs unexalted (but thoroughly
hysterical) poems mock, chide, accuse, tease, joke, undermine, point,
and laugh at the world around us‹and at anything that takes itself
too seriously. Her non-canonical oeuvre includes: Tea For Two (A
Tragedy); Nietzsche And The Ice-Cream Truck; Capitalism Can Fall Not
Like I Fell For You; Inappropriately Touched By An Angel; Love Is
Like A Toilet Bowl; and many more.
Who knew bad poetry could be so good!
Click here for more and to order:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1402767870/poetrysuperhighw
Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published by Sterling (October, 2009)
~ 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 bo...@PoetrySuperHighway.com with your name and the title of
the book.
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UPCOMING POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY LIVE EVENTS
Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed
during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and
clicking on the "Click to Listen" button.You can listen to the shows
through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live
through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.Can't or
don't want to call in? You can ask questions live during the show's
broadcast time by sending an instant message to RickPoet on AIM.If
you can't make the live time, you can also listen to any past show by
visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh 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:
AUGUST 2010 WORLDWIDE OPEN READING
Sunday August 22, 2010 ~ 2:00 pm (pacific)
Join our monthly open reading. Tune in to hear poets from all over
the world read their work and/or call in and read one of your poems.
There are no content or style restrictions. We'd love to hear your
poem! Hosted monthly by Poetry Super Highway's Rick Lupert.
Recently Archived broadcasts:
AUGUST 2010 WORLDWIDE OPEN READING
Sunday August 22, 2010 ~ 2:00 pm (pacific)
Join our monthly open reading. Tune in to hear poets from all over
the world read their work and/or call in and read one of your poems.
There are no content or style restrictions. We'd love to hear your
poem! Hosted monthly by Poetry Super Highway's Rick Lupert.
JUNE 2010 WORLDWIDE OPEN READING
Sunday June 13, 2010
Great show this month featured callers from Vancouver, BC, Canada,
Sonoma, CA, Lake Wells, FL, Newark, NJ, Los Angeles, CA, Columbos, OH
and Valley Center, OH. Lots of information about Russian dogs in
space as well.
Poetry Super Highway Live would love to host your reading, interview,
contest promotion or other poetry/writing related show. Please e-mail
your show idea to Ri...@PoetrySuperHighway.com, and we'll take it from
there.
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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, send an
e-mail to: class...@PoetrySuperHighway.com
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TOM HOWARD/JOHN H. REID POETRY CONTEST - CLOSING NEXT MONTH
Eighth year. Ten cash prizes totaling $5,550. Top prize $3,000.
Submit poems in any style or genre. Both published and unpublished
work accepted. Winning entries published online. Entry fee is $7 for
every 25 lines, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline:
September 30. Judges: John H. Reid, Dee C. Konrad. Submit online or
mail to Winning Writers, Attn: Tom Howard Poetry Contest, 351
Pleasant Street, PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060. Winning Writers is
one of the "101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest,
2005-2010). More information: http://www.winningwriters.com/tompoetry
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SECOND SUNDAY POETRY SERIES: This open mic poetry reading series,
hosted by Alex M. Frankel, takes place on the second Sunday of every
month at the Cafe Alibi in Old Town Pasadena. Great local and
national poets are featured. They perform their work, sell and sign
books and mingle with audience members and open mic participants.
Admission is free but there is a one drink minimum.
Next reading: Sunday, August 8, 5 pm. Features: Jessica Goodheart,
Annette Sugden and Alex M. Frankel. This is Pasadena's leading
poetry event! For more about the series go to
http://www.secondsundaypoetry.com/
The Cafe Alibi is at 84 South Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, near Green St.
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LAST CALL! Extended Deadline:
THE DREAM QUEST ONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST. Write a poem, thirty
lines or fewer on any subject or write short story five pages
maximum, single or double line spacing, on any subject or theme,
fiction or non-fiction. Multiple entries are accepted. Extended
Postmark deadline: August 9, 2010. Awards: Writing Contest First
Prize is $500; Second: $250; Third: $100. Poetry Contest First Prize:
$250; Second: $125; Third: $50. All contest winners will be notified
and published online in the Dare to Dream pages, on September 11,
2010. Entry fees: $5 per poem, $10 per short story. Info: Include
title of poem or story, name, address, phone#, email, brief
biographical info. (Tell us a little about yourself) on the
coversheet; add a self-addressed stamped envelope for entry
confirmation. Entry fees payable to: łDREAMQUESTONE.COM˛- Mail to:
Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest, P.O. Box 3141, Chicago, IL
60654. Visit http://www.dreamquestone.com/ for details and to enter!
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Voices Israel proudly sponsors the 21st international Reuben Rose
Poetry Contest. http://www.freewebs.com/voicesisrael/
Prizes: US$500; US$200; US$100. 10 hon.mentions. Entries considered
for publication in Voices 2011 anthology.
Conditions. Entries unlimited (40 lines per poem). All styles of
challenging, humorous & curious poetry in 2 copies/one without info.
of entrant. Entry fee US$5 per poem. Deadline Oct. Ist. Winners
announced Dec/Jan. Judge. Prof Seymour Mayne,
Ottawa University. Address: Voices Israel, P.O.Box 236, Kiriat Ata
28101, Israel. (Cash/checks to 'Voices Israel').
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PSH website viewers get a 50% discount on chapbook printing services
from Palabra Productions for the duration of the PSH contest. Go to
http://palabraproductions.blogspot.com for very inexpensive pricing
to produce your next chapbook. And don't forget to mention you saw
this on the PSH.
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After twelve years of Internet-based self-abuse, UnlikelyStories.org
is finally unveiling its first year of paperbacks! Check out My Hands
Were Clean by Tom Bradley, bound together with Dr. Gonzo by Deb Hoag,
Monolith by Anne McMillen, bound together with Soy solo palabras but
wish to be a city by León De la Rosa, and Unlikely Stories of the
Third Kind, a 400-page project of all things UnlikelyStories.org,
including a CD and DVD! Keep appraised at
http://www.facebook.com/unlikely.stories and
http://www.UnlikelyStories.org!
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"A Breath of Paint" by LB Sedlacek is a new chapbook
featuring travel and adventure poems. Only $2 (US).
Order at http://tinyurl.com/24zqb9z
http://www.lbsedlacek.com/
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Full Of Crow Press and Distribution produces print and web based
publications of poetry, fiction, art, essays, interviews, reviews,
audio, and more. We are pleased to launch a new chapbook series,
featuring poetry and short fiction. Come check us out at our
poetry/small press fest this October 23 in Akron, Ohio! All welcome.
Contact: Lynn Alexander through www.fullofcrow.com/akronfest.html
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COREY MESLER : It's unprecedented, two novels released on the same
day, March 31, 2010,from two different presses: Following Richard
Brautigan (Livingston Press) and The Ballad of the Two Tom Mores
(Bronx River Press). They may be ordered signed or inscribed from
http://www.burkesbooks.com. Tom Piazza said, "Corey Meslerąs writing
is scary, funny, smart, and deeply twisted."
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Unfound Gems
Roy Anthony Shabla is hailed as the spiritual heir to Rumi. His book
of ecstatic poems, eating God, is a rare delight. "If poets could be
superstars... Roy Anthony Shabla is the man to watch!" ~ Spirit of
the Valley. roy anthony shabla .com
Zero One is a black, gay, homeless, rap poet living on the streets of
Los Angeles. His book, Revolution Rapture, is a raw and poignant
comment on our modern society. lulu.com/zeroone revolution rapture
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EXPERIENCED POETRY AND WRITING MENTOR LINDA LEEDY SCHNEIDER
Collaborate through telephone conferences and E-mail with an
award-winning internationally published poet, college writing
instructor, psychotherapist and Pushcart nominee
Beginning or experienced writers welcome. Most writers published if
that is one of their goals. (616) 942-7179 or Losch...@AOL.com
http://www.pw.org/content/linda_leedy_schneider
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We Put Things In Our Mouths by Rick Lupert
"Lupert] writes to us as if we were together, in a library say, a
room where speech is forbidden. His poems are passed to us with a
nod, a smile librarians canąt see."
- Brendan Constantine
A new collection of humorous European poetry from poetic
observationalist Rick Lupert, master of the poetic travelogue. Join
Rick as he travels through Amsterdam with Rembrandt and Van Gough and
discovers his hesitance with the cityąs slogan łI Am Amsterdam.˛
Taste Belgiumąs chocolate and beer in the cities of Brussels and
Brugge (thatąs how THEY spell it.) Stop in to Magritteąs house.
Re-visit Paris, its cheese. its Monet, its wild eyed man with a giant
toothbrush in Montmartre. Travel through Europe with Rick Lupert as
his wife earnestly tries to get the pen away from him. Rediscover
your poetic sense of humorŠput these poems in your mouth.
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
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A Poet's Haggadah: Passover Through the Eyes of Poets edited by Rick
Lupert
36 Poets reinterpret the traditional themes and text of the Passover
Haggadah through their own unique lenses. Guaranteed to add something
different to your own seders and a great read! Edited by Los Angeles
Poet Rick Lupert (Creator of the Poetry Super Highway) Includes work
from Helen Bar-Lev, Lynne Bronstein, Salvatore Buttaci, Howard
Camner, Larry Colker, devin davis, Barbara Elovic, Robert Klein
Engler, David Gershator, Leslie Halpern, Claudia Handler, Daniel Y.
Harris, Elizabeth Iannaci, Marc Jampole, Rachel Kann, Beth Kanter,
Peggy Landsman, Michael Levy, Jake Marmer, Ellyn Maybe, Heather
McNaugher, Daniel Olivas, Judith Pacht, Jaimes Palacio, Jonathan
Penton, Joan Pond, Lanie Shanzyra P. Rebancos, Richard Schiffman, G.
David Schwartz, Adam Shechter, Diana Sher, Scott Alixander Sonders,
Julia Stein, S. Thomas Summers, Pam Ward and Misha Weidman.
More info and get the book here: http://www.poetseder.com/
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I AM MY OWN ORANGE COUNTY - 11TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION by RICK LUPERT
"Irreverent and yet somehow deeply empathic, many of the pieces
showcase Lupert's Prevert-like instinct for finding the profound in
the absurd."
- Brendan Constantine
Rick's second book, originally published in 1997 with all of the
original selected poems from artwork, introduction and orange-ness,
along with a newly written "Re-Introduction" and a "bonus material"
section featuring a selection of 29 additional (sometimes even MORE
sophomoric) poems from the I Am My Own Orange County 'era'.
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/iamooc.html
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