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THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
Issue # 555 - ISSN: 1523-6587

May 19-25, 2008

   this week:

   ~ This week featuring 19 poets from MILL CREEK and SEATTLE, WA

   ~ 2 new poetry and writing related link added this week.

   ~ DEF POETRY - SEASON 6 DVD directed by STAN LATHAN featured this
     week in the PSH Bookstore.

   ~ PSH LIVE Schedule: May 4th open reading in the archive

   ~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.


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POETS OF THE WEEK

   ~ This week's featured poets are:

   BRAD HATFIELD and JANICE ADAMS:

   BRAD HATFIELD (Mill Creek, Washington) was born in 1957, in Yakima,
   Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1980
   with degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing. Brad愀 lived
   in Alaska and California, before returning to the Seattle area in
   1990 to stay. After a hiatus from writing, he has been very active
   since 2005, with recent publications in the WPA愀 Whispers & Shouts,
   Snow Monkey: An Eclectic Journal; and Switched On Gutenberg. He was
   the 2008 Winner of the Yakima Valley Allied Arts Juried Poetry
   Contest. If there is a consistent theme in his work it is a
   celebration of the tenets of scientific pantheism. Brad is a Vice
   President of National Specialty Underwriters, sharing the insurance
   profession (and almost nothing else) with some of his favorite
   artists: Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Wallace Stevens, and James M.
   Cain. Brad lives with his companion and their son Grayson.

   JANICE ADAMS (Seattle, Washington) finds these days that all she
   wants to do is read and write. Seattle, her adopted home, is a good
   place for both.

   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 ONLINE POETRY RESOURCES LISTINGS THIS WEEK

   ~ LOVE THE BOOK
   Literary website, bookstore and blog featuring over 275 book awards,
   small and alternative press books, university press books and a
   library lookup function where you can, with one click, look up in
   your local library any book featured any pa


   NEW INDIVIDUAL POETS PAGES LISTINGS THIS WEEK

   ~ POWERFUL WRITINGS IN OUR TIME
   A website for the contextual poetry book A Goodbye To My Little
   Troubles by Vusi Moloi (c) 2008.


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POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE

   Featured this week in the PSH Bookstore:

   DEF POETRY - SEASON 6 DVD directed by STAN LATHAN

   Experience the passion and fire of tomorrows hottest poets! This
   acclaimed series showcases practitioners of one of the countrys
   fastest-rising performing-art forms def poetry in an intimate
   uncensored format. Taped as always before a live audience at The
   Supper Club in NYC each installment of Russell Simmons Presents Def
   Poetry is hosted by popular rap artist/actor Mos Def and spotlights
   original material performed by contemporary poets and well-known
   music/comedy artists.

   DVD, 180 Minutes, released by HBO Home Video, (April, 2008)


   ~ 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://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:

   Worldwide Open Reading
   Sunday June 8, 2:00 pm (pacific) - TOMORROW!
   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:

   May Worldwide Open Reading
   Sunday May 4
   The May, 2008 edition of our open reading featured readers from
   Cambrilla, CA, Princeton, West Virginia, Augusta, Maine, Calabasas,
   CA, Birmingham, AL, Long Beach, CA, British Columbia, Canada,
   Barrington, New Jersey and Del Rey Florida. This show also included
   several callers whose work appeared in the Poetry Super Highway's
   Holocaust Remembrance Day issue reading their poems that appeared in
   that issue. Listen to the show in our archive! 

   April Worldwide Open Reading
   Sunday April 6, 2:00 pm (pacific)
   The April, 2008 edition of our open reading featured readers from
   Dallas, Austin and Katie, Texas, Los Angeles, Augusta, Maine, Tempe,
   Arizona, Portland Oregon, Kansas City, Encinitas, California, and
   Birmingham Alabama. Listen to the show in our archive!


   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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AND SO ON . . .

   The Poetry Super Highway was accessed 1000 times since our last 
   update.


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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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   WAR POETRY CONTEST � LAST CALL!
   Seventh year. Fifteen cash prizes totaling $5,000. Top prize $2,000.
   Submit 1-3 unpublished poems on the theme of war, up to 500 lines in
   all. Winning entries published online. Sponsored by Winning
   Writers. $15 entry fee, payable to Winning Writers. Postmark
   deadline: May 31. Judge: Jendi Reiter. Include cover sheet with
   contact information. No name on poems. Submit online or mail to
   Winning Writers, Attn: War Poetry Contest, 351 Pleasant Street, PMB
   222, Northampton, MA 01060. Winning Writers is proud to be one of 
   101 Best Websites for Writers" (Writer's Digest, 2005-2007). More
   information: http://www.winningwriters.com/war

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   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. Postmark Deadline: July
   31, 2008. 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 published online in the Dare
   to Dream pages, on August 31, 2008. Entry fees: Writing Contest: $10
   per short story. Poetry Contest: $5 per poem. 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: "DREAMQUESTONE.COM"- Mail to: Dream Quest One Poetry &
   Writing Contest, P.O. Box 3141, Chicago, IL 60654. Visit
   http://www.dreamquestone.com for details or to enter!

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   Instant Publisher offers the ability for you to print professional 
   quality, perfect bound, with glossy full color cover books, which you
   lay out yourself directly from your computer.

   Your book can be any number of pages with any design you want in black
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   You simply download the Instant Publisher software to your computer, 
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   Word, Quark XPress, Adobe Indesign, etc...) and then when you're
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   In less than 2 weeks, you'll get your books in the mail!

   You can order as few as 25 books if you want. They can also provide 
   ISBN and Barcodes for your book if you want, and full color cover 
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   This is the cheapest way to get bookstore quality books of your 
   poetry or any other work in almost any quantity.

   Visit http://www.instantpublisher.com/default.asp?afcc=1172 for
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   Also custom make your own books and CDs with full color art and
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   Set up your store for free and earn commission from every sale or
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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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   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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