POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY contest closes in just over a month
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 # 672 - ISSN: 1523-6587
August 30 - September 5, 2010
this week:
~ This week featuring poets from PLACERVILLE, CA and CHINA, ME
~ 3 new poetry and writing linsk added this week.
~ LEARN THEN BURN, A MODERN POETRY ANTHOLOGY FOR THE CLASSROOM edited
by TIM STAFFORD andND DERRICK BROWN L featured
this week in the PSH Bookstore (more guilty pleasure)
~ PSH LIVE Schedule: Next show: Sunday's Reading archived / Next Show
Sept 26
~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.
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POETS OF THE WEEK
~ This week's featured poets are: TAYLOR GRAHAM and DUSAN COLOVIC:
TAYLOR GRAHAM ( Placerville, California) lives on five acres with a
husband, two German Shepherds trained for search-and-rescue, two
untrainable cats, and six sheep. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa
Review, Poetry International, Southern Humanities Review, and
elsewhere, and she is included in the anthology California Poetry:
From the Gold Rush to the Present. Her book The Downstairs Dance
Floor) won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize, and she is a
finalist in the Poets & Writers¹ California Writers Exchange. Her
latest book Walking with Elihu: poems on Elihu Burritt, the
Learned Blacksmith is available on Amazon.
DUSAN COLOVIC (China, Maine) has had poetry featured in The
Collagist, The Columbia Review, Diagram, and Opium Magazine. His
latest collection 'Old Men, Girls, and Monsters' is now out with
Achilles Press. He¹s an interviewer for the PRATE Interview Series, a
regular contributor to The Nervous Breakdown, and the art editor for
DOGZPLOT.
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 POETRY PAGES LISTINGS THIS WEEK:
~ Kixunai
Discussion of Authors works namely HIKWAPA, Hole in the Wind,
adventure story.
~ All Poetry of Murari Sinha
All poetry of Murari Sinha at Poem Hunter
~ Chandos Ring: A Modern Epic Poem
America's First Epic poem. Chandos Ring is a ten volume epic poem by
Mark Chandos that tells the story of future Americans entering the
solar system. The trauma of leaving a dying Earth is an opportunity
for new discovery of language. If you have not seen this new
masterpiece of American literature then check out Chandosring.com.
All other talk about modern poetry is useless until Mark Chandos is
discussed.
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POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE
LEARN THEN BURN, A MODERN POETRY ANTHOLOGY FOR THE CLASSROOM edited
by TIM STAFFORD AND DERRICK BROWN featured this week in the PSH
Bookstore.
Hello teachers! We know you work hard. Besides ninjas, you have the
hardest job in the world. Between the teaching, the testing, the
grading, and the nurturing it's difficult to seek out new materials
for your classroom. We are here to help. As slam poets and teachers,
we know the power of the spoken word in the classroom. All you have
to do is attend a youth slam or find a clip of one online and you
will see the positive impact it has on our young people. It is able
to engage kids from any background in a way that classical poetry
simply cannot touch. A complaint we've heard from many teachers is
that they would love to use spoken word in their classrooms but they
are afraid of getting in trouble. A bulk of spoken word poetry does
have quite a few curses. After all, those poems were meant to be read
to a rowdy crowd of adults at a slam and not a class full of kids.
The poems come from the gut and sometimes an "F" bomb finds its way
to the page. Unfortunately, this is what holds many teachers back
from using spoken word in their classes. So behold! We asked some of
the best contemporary spoken word and slam poets to give us poems
that would be appropriate for the classroom. This means you will not
have to sift through this book with a highlighter to try and find the
F's and the S's and the B's. We've provided poems from national slam
champs, world slam champs, fellow teachers, and poets we feel are the
best of what's around. We've also included some lessons. Some of
these lessons have been tested out in the classroom, some not. Feel
free to use these lessons as you see fit. Every teacher has their own
style so please, do not feel like you have to use the lessons
verbatim. Simplify, expand, modify, do whatever you need to do. You
know your class so teach the poems the way that suits them best. The
most important part is the poetry. Learn then Burn, Tim Stafford and
Derrick Brown.
Click here for more and to order:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/098425157X/poetrysuperhighw
Paperback, 122 Pages, Published by Write Bloody Publishing (May, 2010)
~ 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:
September 2010 Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday September 26, 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
Listen to the eclectic mix of poets from our August open reading
which featured callers from Newark, NJ, Milwaukee, WI, Woodland
Hills, Laguna Hills, Desert Hot Springs and the rest of Southern
California, as well as Elkins Park, PA, Huntersville, NIC and the St.
Louis Area of Illinois.
CONVERSATION WITH 2010 POETRY CONTEST JUDGES
Sunday July 25, 2010
Listen in to our conversation with the 2010 Poetry Contest Judges to
learn what they look for when they are scoring your contest entry
poems. Rick Lupert was on hand filling in the details regarding how
the contest is run, the rules, the entry guidelines etc. If you're
considering entering the contest, this is a great opportunity for you
to learn directly from the contest judges valuable insights to help
you do well in the contest!
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 - LAST CALL!
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, September 12, 5 pm. Features: Cecilia Woloch,
Marie Lecrivain and Judith Terzi. This is Pasadena's leading poetry
event! For more about the series please email
alexmfra...@att.net The Cafe Alibi is at 84 South Fair Oaks Ave,
Pasadena, near Green St.
The Cafe Alibi is at 84 South Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, near Green St.
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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 Mesler¹s writing
is scary, funny, smart, and deeply twisted."
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Art. Poetry. http://2C3DB.com/
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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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PERMANENT OBSCURITY
Inspired by the underground sexploitation films of the 1960s, this
bold updating of the "roughie" subgenre and lampoon of auteur
filmmaking largely takes place in New York City's East Village (circa
2006), and it chronicles the rise and fall of a unique and intense
relationship. Dolores and Serena, two chemically dependent,
down-and-out artists set out to take control of their lives by making
a fetish-noir/femdom movie. Of course, things don't exactly turn out
as planned. For more visit: http://permanentobscurity.com/
To purchase:
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raphy/dp/0971341540
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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
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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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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
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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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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 can¹t 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 city¹s slogan ³I Am Amsterdam.²
Taste Belgium¹s chocolate and beer in the cities of Brussels and
Brugge (that¹s how THEY spell it.) Stop in to Magritte¹s 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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