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Signs of Spring!

Order a temporary sign featuring a poem of your choice TODAY!

What better way to celebrate National Poetry Month in April and all spring long than with your very own yard sign featuring a poem of 16 lines or fewer.

Download order form for details. Deadline for orders is March 1st, 2021!

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New Writing Opportunities

2021 POETRY CHALLENGE - Amateurs, semi-professionals, professionals and students of all ages are invited to submit original poetry in response to the 2021 Poetry Challenge. Deadline is Friday, January 29, 2021. Download Submission Guidelines and Entry Form. This year Highland Park Poetry challenges poets to write a response to one of the following prompts:

Fruits and Vegetables (the United Nations has declared 2021 the year of Fruits & Vegetables; ok to concentrate on one)
Common Threads
Sweetelle (description of this poetic form by Allison Joseph included with submission guidelines)

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.

Click here to download 2021 Poetry Challenge Submission Guidelines & Entry Form

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Check out our newest poetry book reviews

for January 2021

Other Maidens

By Toti O'Brien

BlazeVOX Books, 2020

146 Pages

ISBN: 978-1-60964-374-4

Review by Linda Imbler

AND

Time Is Not A River

By Michael Minassian

Transcendant Zero Press, 2020

103 Pages

ISBN: 978-1946460042

Review by LaVern Spencer McCarthy

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Check out our newest poetry book reviews

for January 2021

Apricots to Za'Atar: Across oceans of Time Memoir Greets Persona in the Pantry of My Life

By Emma Alexandra Kowalenko

Self-Published, 2019

137 Pages

ISBN: 978-1701893696

Review by Jonathan Gourlay

AND

Dragonflies and Algebra

By Dennis Trujillo

FutureCycle Press, 2020

82 Pages

ISBN-13: 978-1942371861

Review by Ed Werstein

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Check out our newest poetry book reviews

for January 2021

Ministry of Flowers

By Andrea Witzke Slot

Valley Press, 2020

104 Pages

ISBN: 9781912436439

Review by Lois Baer Barr

The coronavirus crisis is still with us. The future remains uncertain. No live-in person events scheduled at this time.

Visit our "Schedule of Events" tab to read poems about the virus, poems about calm or perseverance. Thank you to our November 2020 contributors to this special section:

Candace Armstrong, Patrice Claeys Boyer, Teresa Burleson, Jackie Chou, Jan Chronister, Victoria Crawford, J. K. Durick, Mardelle Fortier, Michelle Gale, Esther Kalu, Richard V. Kaufman, Chuck Kramer, Candace Kubinec, Sarah Leavesly, Barbara Boothe Loyd, Lennart Lundh, LaVern Spencer McCarthy, Joan McNerney, Silvia Morgan, Wilda Morris, Lakshmy Nair, Howard Nemeroff, Marcia Pradzinski, Jenene Ravesloot, Donita Ries, Julie Sheldon, Joris Soeding, Alice Marcus Solovy, Lynn Weitz and the poet only identified as L.

We are posting 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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