� PSH LIVE Open Reading TOMORROW!
   kJoin us next week, Sunday, June 8th at 2pm (pacific) for a liveopen
   reading. Call in and read your poetry or just tune in and listento
   the show. There are no content or style restrictions. We'd love to
   hear your work! Click on PSH Live from the main PSH menu to joinin or
   visit our page at BlogTalkRadio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/psh

   � Join the 24 sponsors who have offered over 80 prizes so farfor our
   11th annual summer Poetry contest. We will undoubtedlybe able to,
   once again, offer a prize of interest to poets andwriters to every
   single contest entrant, just for entering,regardless of their entry's
   score. Join in! If you'd like to donate,books, subscriptions,
   services, or anything of specific interestedto Poets and Writers in
   exchange for promotional mention in ourclassified section and in all
   contest correspondence for theduration of the contest, please click
   on "SPONSOR THE 2008POETRY CONTEST" from the main PSH menu for all
   the details.


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THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
Issue # 558 - ISSN: 1523-6587

June 9 - 15, 2008

   this week:

   ~ This week featuring poets from BUFFALO, NY and DERAY BEACH, FL

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

   ~ 2008 POET'S MARKET featured this week in the Poetry Resource Books
     section of the PSH Bookstore.

   ~ PSH LIVE Schedule:Open Reading - June 8th - TOMORROW!

   ~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.


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POETS OF THE WEEK

   ~ This week's featured poets are:

   ERIC EVANS and MARTIN STEELE:

   ERIC EVANS is a writer and musician from Buffalo, New York with stops
   in Portland, Oregon and Rochester, New York where he currently
   resides with his wife, Diane, and son, Henry. His work has appeared
   in Artvoice, Blind Man's Rainbow, Posey, Lucid Moon, Poetry Motel,
   Hazmat, Remark and many other publications as well as a few
   anthologies. He has published six collections. He has also published
   a broadside through Lucid Moon Press.

   MARTIN STEELE (Deray Beach, Floriday) was born and raised in
   Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa. He was educated at King
   Edward VII School where he first found his love for words. Martin
   settled in Delray Beach in 1999. He was also a finalist in the 2003
   Winning Writers War Poetry Contest and won High Distinction in the
   2006 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest. Jendi Reiter critiqued
   my poem, "New World", in 2005. 

   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 

   ~ POETRY COMPETITIONS
   The competition site used to find variety of competitions that are
   currently going around the world.The competitions are writing
   competitions, drawing, poetry, Arts and craft, Essay
   Competition,handwriting contest, programming competition and music
   competition etc.


   NEW INDIVIDUAL POETS PAGES LISTINGS THIS WEEK

   ~ POETRY FOR ALL AND NONE
   Poetry translated from Croatian


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POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE

   Featured this week in the Poetry Resource Books section of the PSH
   Bookstore:

   2008 POET'S MARKET
   Includes over 1,800 completely updated listings Features exclusive
   articles, interviews, and how-to guides, keeping readers up-to-date
   on trends in the poetry publishing world.

   Offers additional listings for the reader's personal enrichment,
   including conferences and workshops, organizations for poets, print
   and online resources, state arts organizations, and glossaries.

   Readers will find all the information necessary to research markets
   and submit poetry for publication. In addition to market listings,
   the 2008 Poet's Market provides how-to material on preparing and
   submitting manuscripts, identifying markets, relating to editors, and
   other solid information that makes the book an ideal beginner's
   resource as well as a trusted marketing guide that seasoned poets
   turn to year after year. Includes the latest developments in poetry
   writing and publishing through Insider Reports by and about working
   poets and editors.

   Paperback, 276 Pages, released by Writers Digest Books, (August, 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 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 . . .

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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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   MARGARET REID POETRY CONTEST FOR TRADITIONAL VERSE - LAST CALL!
   Fifth year. Fourteen cash prizes totaling $5,250. Top prize $2,000.
   Submit poems in traditional verse forms, such as sonnets and free
   verse. Winning entries published online. Both published and
   unpublished work accepted. Entry fee is $6 for every 25 lines,
   payable to Winning Writers. Postmark deadline: June 30. Judges: J.H.
   Reid, D.C. Konrad. Submit online or mail to Winning Writers, Attn:
   Margaret Reid 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, 2005-2008). More
   information: http://www.winningwriters.com/margaret

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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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   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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