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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

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 February 2021

Inside Out: Poems On Writing and Reading Poems With Insider Exercises

By Marjorie Maddox

Kelsay Books, 2020

146 Pages

ISBN: 978-1950462445

Review by Teresa K. Burleson

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Beyond the Moon's White Claw

By Patty Dickson Piecza

Red Dragonfly Press, 2020

128 Pages

ISBN: 978-1945063329

Review by Michael Escoubas - reprinted from Quill & Parchment

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Check out our newest poetry book reviews

for February 2021

the samurai

By Linda Crate

Yellow Arrow Publishing, 2020

58 Pages

ISBN: 978-1735023021

Review by Cynthia T. Hahn

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Decennia

By Jan Chronister

Truth Serum Press, 2020

156 Pages

ISBN-13: 978-1925536980

Review by Carol L. Gloor

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Check out our newest poetry book reviews

for February 2021

Dancing at Lake Montebello

By Lynne Viti

Apprentice House Press, 2020

128 Pages

ISBN: 978-1627202800

Review by Terry Loncaric

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 January 2021 contributors to this special section:

Herb Berman, Mary Beth Bretzlauf, Jackie Chou, Jan Chronister, Victoria Crawford, Gail Denham, Idella Pearl Edwards, Michael Escoubas, Lawrence Feder, Mardelle Fortier, Michelle LM Gale, Dominique Galliano, Judy MK Kaufman, Richard V. Kaufman, Gert Knop, Candace Kubinec, Terry Loncaric, Jayshown Lott, Marilyn Peretti, Jenene Ravesloot, Kim Reed, Christine Sheeter, Julie Sheldon, Diana Smith, Pat St. Pierre, Curt Vevang, Lynn West, Court Williams and R. M. Yager.

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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