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THE 2008 POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY POETRY CONTEST


this years contest is sponsored by:

�� Assume Nothing Press, Bobbi Lurie, Brick Cave Media, Christine
   Bruness, Colin Galbraith, Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Contest,
   Deborah P Kolodji, DJ Monkey, Ellaraine Lockie, Horosho Dlia-Menia
   Publishers, Ink Publications, Jafansta, Inc, Jerry Garcia, Jonathan 
   Penton, Katherine L. Gordon, Kingfisher Road Gifts, Larry O. Bubar,
   Layalama.com, LB Sedlacek, Lizzie Wann, Lovely Trinkets, Marie
   Lecrivain, Mary Kennedy Eastham, Mike Scheidemann, Poetic Matrix
   Press, Science Fiction Poetry Association, Skysaje Enterprizes,
   Southern California Haiku Study Group, Stacy Smith, The Compulsive
   Reader, The Poetry Market Ezine, The Ranfurly Review, Uphook Press,
   Water Forest Press, WinningWriters.com, Write Away Literary Services,
   www.benbarton.co.uk


�� It's our eleventh annual Poetry Contest featuring cash prizes and
�� 37 sponsors who've donated over 100 additional prizes.� Last year we
�� were able to send every contest entrant a prize for participating
�� and with even more prizes on this year's roster, we're hoping to do
�� the same.


Read below for all the Entry Guidelines, The Complete Prize List, The
Judges, and the 2008 Contest Calendar


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ENTRY GUIDELINES

�� ~ The Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest Is Open to all human beings
���� on planet Earth. (except for the three judges)

�� ~ Enter as many poems as you like.

�� ~ Please include all entered poems in a single e-mail
���� (not separate e-mails for each poem entered.)

�� ~ Poems may be of any style, length, or subject matter.

�� ~ Please paste poems as PLAIN TEXT into the body of ONE e-mail.
���� Text formattings (such as bolding and italics) and colors and
���� centering of poems ALWAYS make them more difficult to work with
���� and usually don't appear on my screen the way they do on yours.

�� ~ Please include a separate list of your poem titles in your e-mail
���� submission (un-numbered, one poem title on each line)

�� ~ Please do not send your poems double spaced.
���� If your poems come to us double-spaced, we will not accept them
���� and ask you to re-send them single spaced.

�� ~ Poems must be e-mailed to Contest@PoetrySuperHighway.com

�� ~ We DO NOT ACCEPT ATTACHMENTS.� The text of your poems must be
���� pasted as PLAIN TEXT INTO THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL.

�� ~ This contest is separate from weekly Poet of the Week consideration
���� Submissions for Poet of the week consideration must be separate
���� from Contest Submissions and the same poems may not be submitted
���� for both.

�� ~ There is a One Dollar Per Poem entry fee.

��� ____________________ PAYMENT OPTIONS ____________________

�� 1) PayPal

�� ~ Entry fee should be sent via PayPal to my PayPal payment e-mail
�� address: Rick@PoetrySuperHighway.com

�� PayPal is free to use and you can make payments with your credit
�� card. Head here to sign up if you don't already have an account:
�� http://www.paypal.com/Include in the "Note" section of the PayPal
�� form your

����������� Name
����������� Address
����������� E-mail address,
����������� and titles of poems you entered.

�� OR

�� 2) Mail Your Payment

�� We accept checks, money orders and international checks and money
�� orders in US Funds made payable to "Rick Lupert"

�� Mail your payment to:

����������� Rick Lupert
����������� 15522 Stagg Street
����������� Van Nuys, CA 91406

�� Please DO NOT SEND HARD COPIES OF POEMS THROUGH REGULAR MAIL WITH
�� YOUR PAYMENT. We only accept poems in the body of an e-mail and we
�� will throw them away unread if you send them to us with your payment.
�� Include with your entry fee, on a separate sheet of paper, your

����������� Name
����������� Address
����������� E-mail address
����������� and titles of poems you entered.


��� ____________________ DEADLINES ETCETERA ____________________


�� ~ Deadline for postmarking entry fees or submitting the entry fee
���� via PayPal is Saturday, September 20, 2008.

�� ~ Regardless of when you postmark, your entry fees must be received
���� by Friday, September 26, so if you're mailing your entry fee, please
���� account for the amount of time it will take for your it to travel
���� between your home and Los Angeles.

�� ~ This is a not for profit contest. All of the collected entry fees
���� will be divided between the authors of the top three scoring poems.

�� ~ Once your entry fee is received, your poems will be sent with your
���� name removed to the three judges who will score them 0 - 5
���� (5 being best).

�� ~ Your poems will not be forwarded to the judges until your entry fee
���� is received.

�� ~ If you have any questions or need any of the contest details
���� clarified, please e-mail Contest@PoetrySuperHighway.com


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COMPLETE SPONSOR AND PRIZE LIST

�� ~ First Prize: 50% of the entry fees collected* plus winning poem
���� featured on the PSH

�� ~ Second Prize: 30% of the entry fees collected* plus winning poem
���� featured on the PSH.

�� ~ Third Prize: 20% of the entry fees collected* plus winning poem
���� featured on the PSH.

�� Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, we are able to supplement
�� the cash prizes with an impressive array of prizes which would be of
�� interest to poets and writers.

�� The following prizes will be used to bolster first through third
�� prize as well as distributed to other contest entrants.

�� Our goal is to be able to send every singly person who enters the
�� contest something.

�� If you're interested in becoming a sponsor to this years contest in
�� exchange for promotional consideration, please visit the sponsor
�� information page at http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/pshcospo.html


Additional Prizes:

Assume Nothing Press
http://assumenothingpress.blogspot.com/
1 copy of the chapbook "Red Headed Eskimos" by LB Sedlacek.

www.benbarton.co.uk
http://www.benbarton.co.uk/
1 copy of the chapbook "drop, anchor" by Ben Barton
1 copy of "The Red Book" by Ben Barton

Bobbi Lurie
1 copy of the book "The Book I Never Read" by Bobbi Lurie
1 copy of the book "Letter from the Lawn" by Bobbi Lurie

Brick Cave Media
http://www.brickcavemedia.com/
5 $10 Gift Certificates to the Brick Cave Media Online Store

Christine Bruness
http://www.chatnoirstudios.com/
One signed copy the book 蛆mbalance, An Experimental Collection of Micro 
Stories and Poetry� by Christine McGuigan (author零 maiden name)

Colin Galbraith
http://www.colingalbraith.co.uk/
3 sets of: 1 signed copy of the chapbook, 蚶ringe Fantastic� and the 
e-book 袈oolside Poetry� both by Colin Gailbraith

The Compulsive Reader
http://www.compulsivereader.com/
1 month's online advertisement in The Compulsive Reader including a 
newsletter ad as well ($40 value).

Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Contest Deadline 11/3/08
http://ConcreteWolf.com/
1 copy of the chapbook 袖queezers� by Alison Pelegrin
1 copy of the chapbook 袖uch Short Supply� by Michelle Brooks
1 copy of the chapbook 袍allahassee Letters� by Ryan G. Van Cleave
2 copies of the chapbook 袍he Grape Painter� by Lou Suarez

Deborah P Kolodji
http://dkolodji.livejournal.com/
1 copy of the book "Red Planet Dust" by Deborah P Kolodji
1 copy of the book "unfinished book" by Deborah P Kolodji

DJ Monkey
http://www.djmonkey.tk/ and/or http://www.myspace.com/joeyalkes
5 copies of the CD 彪orporate Oil War, best of DJ Monkey� compilation

Ellaraine Lockie
1 copy of the chapbook, "Blue Ribbons at the County Fair" a collection 
of my first-place winning poems in poetry contests by Ellaraine Lockie

Horosho Dlia-Menia Publishers
1 copy of the book "The Breaking of the Glass" by Tovli Simiryan
1 copy of the e-book "Tiny Stories:�The Inclusive Holiness of the Number 
Six" by Tovli Simiryan
1 copy of the e-book "Ester bat Shmuel Yosif v' Branah" by Tovli Simiryan

Ink Publications
http://www.inkpublications.com/
1 copy of the chapbook "The Halo Effect" by Eric Evans
1 set of 3 ink publications broadsides including "Crows" by Eric Evans, 
"Good Fortune" by Alicia Hoffman, and "Reap Eat" by Carly Christensen

Jafansta, Inc
http://www.jafansta.com/
1 framed poem "Procrastination" by Tonja Dudley Bagwell
1 framed poem "Humanitarian Deeds" by Tonja Dudley Bagwell
1 framed poem "Success" by Tonja Dudley Bagwell

Jerry Garcia
http://www.gratefulnotdead.com
3 original photographs by Jerry Garcia

Jonathan Penton
http://jonathan.unlikelystories.org/
10 copies of the book "Prosthetic Gods" by Jonathan Penton
Katherine L. Gordon
1 copy of �the book 袍ranslating Shadows� by Katherine L. Gordon's poetry

Kingfisher Road Gifts
1 handpainted journal

Larry O. Bubar
1 copy of the book "Life Isn't Always A Be Of Roses" by Larry O. Bubar

Layalama.com
http://www.layalama.com/
1 copy of the book "Essence of Beauty", a collection of 24 poems, by 
Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar

LB Sedlacek
http://www.lbsedlacek.com
1 copy of the chapbook "The Cat and the Carroll A. Deering and Other 
North Carolina Poems" by LB Sedlacek
1 copy of the chapbook "Alexandra's Wreck" by LB Sedlacek

Lizzie Wann
http://www.myspace.com/lizziewann
2 copies of the CD "A New Leaf" by Lizzie Wann
2 copies of the CD "A Wing & A Prayer" by Lizzie Wann

Lovely Trinkets
http://lovelytrinkets.com/
4 $12 dollar gift certificates to Lovely Trinkets

Marie Lecrivain
http://www.poeticdiversity.org/
One copy of the book "The Painter," a narrative poem with illustrations 
by Marie Lecrivain and Aurora Antonovic.

Mary Kennedy Eastham
http://www.RP-Author.com/MKE
1 copy of the boook "The Shadow of a Dog I Can't Forget" by Mary Kennedy 
Eastham now in its Third Printing

Mike Scheidemann
http://www.poetry-voices.8m.com/
2 copies of the 'Voices' anthology 2008 (250 pages of superlative poetry 
from Israel and abroad).
1 copy of the book 袖inging in my Mind� - a didactic dance by Mike 
Scheidemann
2 copies of the book 莧nother Song, Another Eden� by Mike Scheidemann

Poetic Matrix Press
http://www.csusm.edu/profe
2 copies of the book "Driven into the Shade" by Brandon Cesmat

The Poetry Market Ezine
http://www.thepoetrymarket.com/
1 four issue e-subscription to "The Poetry Market Ezine - Premium 
Edition."

The Ranfurly Review
http://www.ranfurly-review.co.uk
A feature in the Rainfurly Review consisting of 1) a selection of the 
poet's work, 2) an interviewm and 3) inclusion of any associated 
artwork/photography, including the front cover

Science Fiction Poetry Association
http://www.sfpoetry.com/
1 one-year membership in the Science Fiction Poetry Association

Skysaje Enterprizes
2 copies of the CD "Dragons Dance Volume One" by Lawrence Berger

Stacy Smith
http://srsmith25.tripod.com/tranquilmoments/index.html
1 copy of the book "Poems of Nature" Edited by Gail Harvey
1 copy of the book "Silent Voices: Recent American Poems on Nature" 
Edited by Paul Feroe
1 copy of the book "Grandmother Earth X: 2004" Edited by Patricia Smith 
& Frances Brinkley Cowden
1 copy of the book "Grandmother Earth XI: 2005" Edited by Patricia Smith 
& Frances Brinkley Cowden

Uphook Press
http://www.uphookpress.com/
2 copies of the anthology "A Cautionary Tale: Peer into the Lives of 
Seven New York Performing Poets."

Water Forest Press
http://www.waterforestpress.com/
1 copy of the book 蚯iterary House Review, 224 pages of brilliant short 
stories and engaging poetry.�
1 copy of the book 蚶ast Food, Slow Mind� by Jacob Erin-Cilberto
10 copies of 毬 Hudson View Poetry Digest - Spring 2008 Issue
8 signed copies of the book "Like a Woman Falling" selected poems by 
Stephanie Pope

WinningWriters.com
http://www.winningwriters.com/
One year of online access to the Poetry Contest Insider database, with 
in-depth profiles of over 750 poetry contests, a $31.80 value.

Write Away Literary Services
http://www.geocities.com/ston_bran
1 copy of the book "City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology" edited by 
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1 copy of the book "Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and 
Poetry" by Jeff Knorr and Tim Schell


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MEET YOUR JUDGES

Gabrielle Mittlebach (Los Angeles, California)

   Gabrielle Mittelbach is a Los Angeles poet and the first place winner
   of the 2007 Poetry Super Highway poetry contest. She has had poetry
   published in journals such as Rattle and Nimrod. She is currently
   editing her first book of poetry called Kisses for the Possessed.

Margot Lurie (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

�� Margot Lurie lives in New York, where she works at Parnassus: Poetry
   in Review.

PJ Nights (Brunswick, Maine)

   PJ Nights was born and raised in the wild and ravishing state of
   Maine, from which outpost she teaches physics, stargazes, and
   publishes and edits the quarterly journal, "from east to west:
   bicoastal verse." For her, poetry is less about the concrete and more
   about the emotional and spiritual, about the sense of wonder she gets
   from a unique image or a surprising use of language. No particular
   formula works to elicit a reader's "gasps", but those quick breaths
   of appreciation when a poet's intent strikes home are what she looks
   for in poems and hopes to achieve with her own. She writes to keep
   her brain from turning to mush, and, hopefully, to leave little bits
   of beauty in her wake.


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2008 CONTEST CALENDAR

�� July 3: Contest begins

�� July 7 - 13: Judges featured as Poets of the Week

�� July 13, 2:00 pm (pacific): PSH Live Judges Event: Live broadcast
   where Judges will have the chance to read poems and discuss the
   contest and you can call in live and ask them questions.

�� September 20: Final deadline for contest entries. (Entry fees must be
�� postmarked by September 7 or they'll be returned.)

�� September 27: Judges deadline for returning scored poems.

�� October 2: Second round scoring deadline (in the event of tied
�� scores.)

�� October 5: 2pm (pacific) PSH Live Event: "Winners Announced" in a
   special broadcast. Listen to it live and if any of the winners happen
   to be listening, they'll be invited to call in and read their winning
   entries live on the air.

�� October 6 - 12: Contest Winners featured as Poets of the Week.


Good luck to everyone!
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