THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
Issue # 529 - ISSN: 1523-6587

November 19-25, 2007

   this week:

   ~ This week featuring poets from CHICAGO, IL and TAKOMA PARK, MD

   ~ 7 new poetry and writing related link added this week.

   ~ THE EDNA WEBSTER COLLECTION OF UNDISCOVERED WRITINGS BY RICHARD
     BRAUTIGAN featured this week in the PSH Bookstore.

   ~ PSH LIVE Schedule: Open reading TOMORROW

   ~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.


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POETS OF THE WEEK

   ~ This week's featured poets are: MICHAEL H. BROWNSTEIN and
     DEIDRE ELIZABETH:
                        
   MICHAEL H. BROWNSTEIN (Chicago, Illionois) has been widely published
   throughout the small and literary presses. His work has appeared in
   The Cafe Review, American Letters and Commentary, Skidrow Penthouse,
   Xavier Review, Hotel Amerika, After Hours, Free Lunch, Meridian
   Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Pacific Review and others. He
   has been featured in a number of on-line journals including
   chicagopoetry.com, Milk, Muse Apprentice Guild and
   poetrysuperhighway.com. In addition he has won a number of awards
   including the Ommation Press Best Chapbook Award and Triton College's
   International Poetry Prize. He published The Paper Bag and WYMBS
   Broadside, wrote for the Chicago Reader and other area newspapers and
   has an educational column in the SouthStreet Journal and is the
   elementary school teacher editor for Substance. Brownstein has eight
   poetry chapbooks including The Shooting Gallery (Samidat Press,
   1987), Poems from the Body Bag (Ommation Press, 1988), A Period of
   Trees (Snark Press, 2004) and What Stone Is (Fractal Edge Press,
   2005). Presently he performs original one-man performance pieces
   throughout the Chicago area. Two of these are Ten Times People
   Attempted to Rob Me and Let's Eat Grasshoppers Cause Everything Else
   Tastes Like Chicken.                     

   DEIDRE ELIZABETH (Takoma Park, Maryland) is a 40 yr. old single vegan
   leftist liberal from the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania region origiinally.
   She has served as poetry editor for Verse Libre Quarterly and Erosha.
   Also she's published in print with the following books: Velvet
   Avalanche, Washing the Color of Water Golden, Women of the Web,
   Megaera Volume I, and This So Called Life. She published various
   places on line as well. She is a Seventh Day Adventist and volunteers
   with various ministries at her church.

   Click on "FEATURED POETS" 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 ONLINE PUBLICATIONS LISTINGS THIS WEEK

   ~ POA TREE
   A place to publish original, amateur, whimsical poems.

   ~ MOBIUS, THE POETRY MAGAZINE
   MOBIUS,The Poetry Magazine presents poems by 150 poets from all the
   states abroad. See poems by Juanita Torrence-Thompson, and excerpts
   from Family and Relationships, Everyday Life, Science and Nature,
   Conflict and Disagreements, Emotions and Escapades, Spirituality, Art
   and Culture, The World About Us and more.

   ~ PULSAR POETRY MAGAZINE
   Pulsar Poetry Magazine, (now produced twice a year, publication
   dates: March and September), is an A5 size, 44 page, professionally
   printed paper production, with a full-colour cover. Pulsar includes
   poems from all areas of the globe. The magazine also includes
   book/booklet reviews and reviews of 'live' poetry events. Photographs
   and illustrations are also featured. Photographs are mainly of poets
   performing at Pulsar 'Live-Microphone' poetry evenings which are
   regularly held in the Swindon, Wiltshire area of the UK. Pulsar is
   non-profit making and is run by poetry enthusiasts for poetry
   enthusiasts, an altruistic concern.

  ~ PHOENIX LITERARY ART MAGAZINE - UTK
   The Phoenix staff is proud to publish a new edition of Phoenix
   Literary and Art Magazine each semester of the regular school year.
   From the University of Tennessee.

   ~ BORDERSENSES LITERARY MAGAZINE
   BorderSenses started in the Fall of 2000 with a simple idea: We
   wanted to provide a platform to aspiring writers and artists from El
   Paso and the border region to share their voices and images with the
   community. BorderSenses is actively involved in community-oriented
   literary projects because it believes that art can promote literacy
   and empower peoples' lives.

   ~ RIVER STYX MAGAZINE
   A small print journal of poetry, essays and art.

   ~ SHAMPOO POETRY
   Online magazine that features original poetry and shampoo photography.


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POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE

   Featured this week in the Poets of the Week Books section of the PSH 
   Bookstore:

   THE EDNA WEBSTER COLLECTION OF UNDISCOVERED WRITINGS by RICHARD
   BRAUTIGAN
                        
   How fitting it is that the earliest writings of one of the most 
   quirky and enduringly popular voices of the 1960s, Richard Brautigan 
   of Trout Fishing in America fame, emerge in the year that marks the 
   thirtieth anniversaries of Woodstock and the first moon landing. When 
   Brautigan left Eugene, Oregon, for the artistic mecca of San 
   Francisco at age 21 in 1955, he bequeathed to Edna Webster, the 
   mother of both his best buddy and his first girlfriend, a set of 
   blithely agile poems and slyly funny short stories. Webster kept her 
   gift until 1992, when she stunned a rare-book collector by describing 
   her treasure and expressing her interest in selling it, a boon for 
   Brautigan fans. Every selection in this slender volume bespeaks his 
   wry affection for life and his love of literature. Brautigan's debt 
   to e. e. cummings and the Beats is palpable, but so are his unique 
   sense of irony and humor, flair for surrealism, earthiness, and 
   juggler's ease in handling words, traits brought to piquant fruition 
   in his celebrated later works.
                           
               -Donna Seaman                       

   Paperback, 160 pages, published by Mariner Books, (August 1999)


   ~ 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 books@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://www.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
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   If you can't make the live time, you can also listen to any past show
   by visiting http://www.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:

   Worldwide Open Reading - TOMORROW
   Sunday November 18, 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 BROADCAST:

   2007 Poetry Contest Winners Announcement
   Sunday October 7, 2:00 pm (pacific)
   We announced the winners here first in the 10th annual Poetry Super
   Highway Poetry contest. 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.

   GOT A SHOW IDEA?

   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 Rick@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: classifieds@PoetrySuperHighway.com

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   that is until he convinces her to do the unimaginable, abort their
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   The Poet's Haven - 10th Anniversary of PoetsHaven.com!

   Come join us at 8:00 PM on Saturday, November 17th at Muggswigz
   Coffee & Tea Co. in Canton, Ohio for an open-mic poetry event. This
   will be recorded and podcast on PoetsHaven.com! Visit PoetsHaven.com
   for directions and more details.

   The Poet's Haven Digest Issue Zero is getting republished as a FREE
   e-book download! The e-book will be available on October 31st.

   The Poet's Haven is an online magazine that has published over 5,100
   pages of poetry, stories, and artwork from over 1,900 creators. We
   are open to submissions from writers of all ages and experience
   levels, with no restrictions on style, length, or genre, and minimal
   restrictions on content. Submission guidelines can be found on the
   website.

   http://www.PoetsHaven.com/

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   THE DREAM QUEST ONE POETRY & WRITING CONTEST is open to everyone
   whether experienced or not. Anyone who loves to arrange words into  
   beautiful art or write a story worth telling. Guidelines: (1) Write a
   poem, thirty lines or fewer on any subject, form or style. And/or (2)
   Write short story five pages maximum, single or double line spacing,
   on any subject or theme, fiction or non-fiction. Multiple entries are
   accepted. (www.dreamquestone.com) Postmark Deadline: December 31,
   2007.

   Prizes: Writing Contest First Prize is $500; Second: $250;
   Third: $100. Poetry Contest First Prize: $250; Second: $125;
   Third: $50. All contest winners works will be published online in the
   Dare to Dream pages, on January 31, 2008. Entry fees: Writing
   Contest: $10 per short story. Poetry Contest: $5 per poem. To send
   entries by mail: Include title of poem(s) or stori(es), 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. Mail entries/fees payable to: 
   Dreamquestone.com"- Dream Quest One Poetry & Writing Contest, P.O. Bx
   3141, Chicago, IL 60654.

   Visit http://www.dreamquestone.com for details or to enter!

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   This is the cheapest way to get bookstore quality books of your 
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   A Man With No Teeth Serves Us Breakfast
   is Rick Lupert's latest release and the author's 11th book written
   during two weeks in Boston and London during the summer of 2006. It's
   a reverse trip through the American Revolution with a special stop to
   tread on the remains of King George The III and an introduction by
   Brendan Constantine. Read sample poems and learn how to get your copy
   here: http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/noteeth.html

   See a video of Rick reading from this book here:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESl6nId6Mro

   See an interview with Rick at his weekly open reading here:
   http://youtube.com/watch?v=pyHYN0gXGP4

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