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Fall 2021/Winter 2022 Muses' Gallery - Poet's Choice
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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.

SEEKING SUBMISSIONS for 2022 POETRY CHALLENGE.  Highland Park Poetry challenges poets to write a response to one of the following prompts:
  • Underwater Life
  • U. S. National Parks (honoring Yellowstone National Park 150th an)
  • Waltmarie (see attached description of this poetic form invented by Candace Kubinec)
Download the submission guidelines and entry form, including instructions on the poetic form, Waltmarie. Deadline is January 31, 2022.
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Submission guidlines & entry form for 2022 Poetry Challenge
 
 
Check out our newest poetry book reviews
for December 2021

Remember: Poems for the 20th Anniversary of 9/11

By Southern Illinois Chapter - Illinois State Poetry Society
Edited by Kathy Lohrum Cotton
Independently Published, 2021
46 Pages
ISBN: 979-8471702806



Review by Michael Escoubas

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A Way of Looking

By Jianqing Zheng
Silverfish Review Press, 2021
77 Pages
ISBN: 978-18788517227


Review by Jacqueline Stearns



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for December 2021


Calendar Girls

By Tobi Alfier
Cholla Needles Arts & Literary Library, 2021
26 pages
ISBN: 979-8481909332


Review by Michael Escoubas

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Revelations

By Ruben Quesada
Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018
38 Pages
ISBN:  978-1943977543




Review by Kathryn Staublin
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for December 2021

To One Day Slips Out of the Shoe of Another

By Marcia J. Pradzinski
Kelsay Books, 2021
64 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-954353-78-7


Review by Sue Roupp
Daily Poem Page - Featured Poems from November 2021
Visit our "Events & Daily Poems" tab to read poems about the virus, poems about calm or perseverance. Thank you to our October 2021 contributors to this special section:
Lois Barr, Nila Bartley, Michael H. Brownstein, Joseph Kuhn Carey, Charlotte Digregorio, Oliva Maciel Edelman, Michael Escboubas, Kate Hutchinson, Richard V. Kaufman, Arlene Gay Levine, Carol Spielman Lezak, Lennart Lundh, Bonnie J. Manion, William Marr, Susan McClellan, Joan McNerney, Michael Minassian, Carl "Papa" Palmer, Marianne Peel, Ann Privateer, Jenene Ravesloot, Marjorie Rissman, Ellen Savage, Alice Marcus Solovy, Pat St. Pierre, Lori Wall-Holloway, Lynn West, R.M. Yager and Kao Ra Zen.

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. 

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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