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THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
Issue # 556 - ISSN: 1523-6587

May 26 - June 1, 2008

   this week:

   ~ This week featuring poets from QUINCY, IL and NEW YORK CITY, NY

   ~ 3 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:Open Reading - June 8th

   ~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.


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POETS OF THE WEEK

   ~ This week's featured poets are:

   SAADIA ALI ASCHEMANN and LARISSA SHMAILO:

   SAADIA ALI ASCHEMANN's (Quincy, Illinois) first collection of poetry,
   lavish lines/luscious lies, was released by FireFly Publishing in
   August of 2007. Her second collection, Words Gone Wild, will be
   released in July of this year. She was voted 'Best Poet of 2007' in
   the Annual Preditors and Editors Readers Poll and was also the
   featured poet in a short story anthology entitled Bloggers' Delight:
   Stories of Love and Redemption. Though she's been married to David
   for 14 years, poetry is her one true love.

   LARISSA SHMAILO (New York City, New York) has been published in
   Fulcrum, Rattapallax, Big Bridge, Drunken Boat, MiPoesias, and many
   other publications. Her popular CD, The No-Net World, has been heard
   on radio stations across the U.S. and the U.S. Larissa translated the
   Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun by A. Kruchenych; a DVD
   of the original English-language production is part of the collection
   of the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum,
   and the Hirsshorn Museum of the Smithsonian Institute. She recently
   contributed translations to the new anthology Contemporary Russian
   Poetry published by Dalkey Archive Press. Larissa is a director of
   TWiN Poetry, an informal collective of over 8,000 audio poets and
   their listeners, and a public coordinator for the acclaimed annual
   Fulcrum. Her new chapbook is A Cure for Suicide (Cervena Barva Press
   2008), and new CD is Exorcism (SongCrew 2008). She is active in her
   native New York City as curator of Sliding Scale Poetry. Larissa is
   listed in the Poetry Kit Who零 Who in poetry.

   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

   ~ P4E INC
   Official Online Home Of 4E Inc

   ~ POETRYANDSHORTSTORIES10
   I've been in this website for a few years now. I add to it every day.
   I've met many friends in the site.

   ~ OHAN PRESS BOOKS
   Describes books of poetry written and publlished by Helene Pilibosian
   including the new History's Twists: The Armenians as well as books by
   H. Sarkissian and K. Pilibosian. Subjects are generally based on
   Armenian history or the Armenian-American experience. Includes
   letters, reviews, comments, sample poems in English and some Armenian
   writing.


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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)
   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 . . .

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   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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   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 
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   Visit http://www.instantpublisher.com/default.asp?afcc=1172 for
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   (or your pictures, images, website logos, poetry on t-shirts,
   sweatshirts, coffee mugs, and mouse pads, hats, picture frames, lunch
   boxes, stickers, postcards, calendars, frisbees, and more!)

   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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