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IN THE MUSES' GALLERY - 2020 Art Gets In Your Eyes
Coming Next to Muses' Gallery - Trees
Highland Park Poetry congratulates our nominees for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Anthology from our 2019/20 Fall/Winter Muses’ Gallery (Water) and 2020 Poetry Challenge:
  • Water Speaks by Linda Wallin
  • Armada, 1/24/2013 by Kate Hutchinson
  • Water, Water, Everywhere  by Marjorie Rissman
  • Upper Mississippi by Carol L. Gloor
  • keeping yourself safe  by Isabella Hoolihan
  • Dichotomy  by Jan Chronister
New Writing Opportunities

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.


Submissions for the 2020 Poetry Challenge are now closed; we will announce our 2021 Poetry Challenge in October.

 
Check out the 27th Annual Illinois State Poetry Society Contest!

Highland Park Poetry sponsors 1 of 13 possible contests. Ours asks poets to create a huitain which is 8 lines rhymed (ababbcbc), with 8 - 10 syllables per lines. **Cash prizes**

Submission period is between September 1 - October 31, 2020. Download ISPS Contest flyer for details.
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Click here to download contest flyer
Check out our newest poetry book reviews
for September 2020



Angular Embrace
By Sylvia Cavanaugh
Kelsay Books (2018)
ISBN-13: 978-1-947465-42-8

Review by Barbara Eaton



AND



Body of Water
By Jeff Santosuosso

Clare Songbirds Publishing House Poetry Series (2018)


Review by Elizabeth Joy Levinson



Check out our newest poetry book reviews
for September 2020


Steve Henderson in Poetry and Pain
By Michael Escoubas

Self-published (2019)


Review by Charlotte Digregorio



AND




Poetry With A Passion
By Storiword/T.J. Morris

Self-published (2019)

Review by Mary Beth Bretzlauf
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 August 2020 contributors to this special section: Hope Atlas, Denise Buschmann, Monica Cardestam, Hanh Chau, Victoria Crawford, George Donald, Jennifer Dotson, Idella Pearl Edwards, Daniel J. Fitzgerald, Alwyn Gornall, Kate Hutchinson, Susan Irving Monshaw, Julie Isaacson, Tricia Knoll, Lennart Lundh, Mindy Matijasevic, Bruce Matteson, Bernie McCullough, Adrian McRobb, Silvia Morgan, Wilda Morris, Lakshmy M. Nair, Ann Privateer, Eduard Schmidt-Zorner, Irfanulla Shariff, Marjorie Skelly, and Diana Smith.

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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April is National Poetry Month. 

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

About us:


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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