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POETRY BOOK REVIEWS - Seeking poets with books to review (prefer publication within 16 months) as well as poets interested in writing reviews. Highland Park Poetry is now accepting reviews of poetry books for publication on our website and Facebook. For information, contact jennifer@highlandparkpoetry.org.

SEEKING SUBMISSIONS for OUR DAILY POEM POSTS. Send up to 5 poems about the coronavirus pandemic, sheltering-in-place, current events or poems that inspire calm, endurance and peace to jennifer@highlandparkpoetry.org. Shorter poems preferred. No deadline. Previously published okay with acknowledgment of first publication.

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Submissions for our 2021 Poetry Challenge are now closed. Look for our 2022 Poetry Challenge to open up in September/October of 2021.
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Check out our newest poetry book reviews
for July 2021

The Kingdom of Birds

By Joan Colby
The Poetry Box, 2020
100 Pages
ISBN: 978-1948461603



Review by Caroline Johnson





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Languid Lusciousness With Lemon

By Joan Leotta
Finishing Line Press, 2017
40 Pages
ISBN: 978-1635341454


Review by Barbara R. Saunders
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for July 2021


Common Ground

By Kathy Lohrum Cotton
Deep Well Poetry, 2021
103 pages
ISBN: 979-8611359884


Review by Michael Escoubas





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Smoke the Peace Pipe

By Roz Weaver
Yellow Arrow Publishing, 2020
61 Pages
ISBN: 979-8611359884




Review by By Cynthia T. Hahn
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for July 2021

Holding Myselves Together

By Margaret Rozga
Cornerstone Press, 2021
231 Pages
ISBN: 978-1733308663


Review by Christine Swanbwerg
Daily Poem Page - Featured Poems from June 2021
Visit our "Events & Daily Poems" tab to read poems about the virus, poems about calm or perseverance. Thank you to our June 2021 contributors to this special section:

Paul Bucheit, Fiona Campbell, Daniel Cleary, Victoria Crawford, Gail Denham, Charlotte Digregorio, Jennifer Dotson, J.K. Durick, Michael Escoubas, Daniel J. Fitzgerald, Maureen Flannery, Phil Flott, Mardelle Fortier, Dominique Galiano, Alwyn Gornall, Larry Janowski, Paul Jamar, Richard V. Kaufman, Joan Leotta, William Marr, Carl "Papa" Palmer, Marianne Peel, Jenene Ravesloot, Marjorie Rissman, Rie Sheridan Rose, Margaret R. Sáraco, Christine Kierstead Sheeter, Alice Marcus Solovy, and Lori Wall-Holloway.

We post a poem daily on Facebook. Be sure to like Highland Park Poetry!

Also, if you have a poem to share, please email to jennifer@highlandparkpoetry.org.
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April is National Poetry Month. 

Here in Highland Park, we celebrate poetry all year round. 

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Highland Park Poetry is a community-wide celebration of words.

Sharing poetry with audiences of all ages.

Offering poetry writing workshops, readings and displays.

Creating opportunities for local poets.
 
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