POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY the exchange is coming
Rick Lupert
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THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
Issue # 590 - ISSN: 1523-6587
January 19 - 25, 2009
this week:
~ This week featuring poets from AUGUSTA, ME and TORONTA, CANADA
~ 1 new poetry and writing related link added this week.
~ THE REAL REASON THE QUEEN HATED SNOW by ANNETTE MARIE HYDER
featured this week in the Poets of the Week section of the PSH
Bookstore.
~ PSH LIVE Schedule: Open Reading - February1, 2009 - Tomorrow!
~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.
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POETS OF THE WEEK
~ This week's featured poets are: PETER SCHWARTZ and DAN MACFADYEN:
PETER SCHWARTZ (Augusta, Maine) has more styles than a Natal Midlands
Dwarf Chameleon. His work's been featured on such sites as Arsenic
Lobster, Diagram, Opium Magazine; and in such journals as The Silt
Reader and the Asheville Poetry Review. His third chapbook 'ghost
diet' will be published by Altered Crow Press in late 2009.
DAN MACFADYEN (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) did not do any creative
writing until he was 40, some technical writing before that. Dan has
been published in several Journals and several poetry anthologies. He
has an interest and degree in things environmental. He has two
beautiful daughters and is recently, a member of the Cornwall
Writer's Society.
Click on "POETS OF THE WEEK" from the main PSH menu to read their
work.
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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
~ PERSONAL INSPIRATION & MOTIVATIONAL POET
A Soul searching, personal inspiration and motivational poetry of a
poet's poetic sojourn through life. Thought provoking poems and
quotes of motivation, love, peace, challenges, frustrations, dreams,
wishes and desires for a better future... as seen in the mind of a
contemporary poet.
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POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE
Featured this week in the Poets of the Week Books section of the PSH
Bookstore:
THE REAL REASON THE QUEEN HATED SNOW by ANNETTE MARIE HYDER
The Real Reason the Queen Hated Snow is a collection of short
stories, poems, recipes and mythos miscellany inspired and informed
by Fairy Tales, Folklore and Mythology. With influences such as Jung,
the Brothers Grimm, Marina Warner and Clarissa Pinkola Estes, the
collection's voice is modern and feminist in nature. Annette Marie
Hyder is the Literature Editor for INTHEFRAY Magazine. Her poetry has
been translated into German, Italian, Dutch and Spanish, included in
numerous anthologies and published in book form. Her magazine
articles appear in print throughout the United States and
internationally and she is the founder and curator of the
international feminist project Facing Feminism: Feminists I Know.
Paperback, 168 pages, published by Twilight Times Books (Oct., 2007)
~ 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
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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
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Upcoming Shows:
FEBRUARY 2009 WORLDWIDE OPEN READING - TOMORROW!
Sunday February 1 ~ 2:00 pm (pacific)
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style
restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with
our listeners. We want to hear you!
Recently Archived broadcasts:
JANUARY 2009 WORLDWIDE OPEN READING
Sunday January 4
Our January 2009 open reading featured a spoken word track from
Richard Lynch and live callers from Oakland, CA, Washington, DC,
Calabasas, CA, Sonoma, CA, Toluca Lake, CA and Poughkeepsie, NY.
DECEMBER 2008 WORLDWIDE OPEN READING
Sunday December 7
Our December 2008 open reading featured poets from Columbus, OH,
Arroyo Grande, CA, East Hampton, CT, Albuquerque, NM, Delray Beach,
FL, Valley Center, CA and Birmingham, AL. Listen to the archived
edition for some great poetry and in depth conversation with our
callers.
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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Skysaje Enterprises announces our fifth annual poetry contest. Here
are the guidelines:
1. All entries must be typed in 14pts font
2. Submit up to five (5) poems per entry
3. Title of poem and author contact info must appear on each page
submitted.
4. A $15.00 U.S. non-refundable entry fee must accompany all
submissions.
5. All entries must be received in our offices between 12/1/08 and
4/30/ 09
Make checks / money orders payable to L. Berger and mail your entries
to:
Skysaje Enterprises
50 Amesbury Rd.
Rochester, NY 14623
This years judges are: Professor M.J. Iuppa of St. John fisher
college in Rochester, NY, Rick Petrie of the Pure Kona poetry series
and Award winning poet Ellaraine Lockie.
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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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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.
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