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THE PRAIRIE STATE POETRY PRIZE FOR A 1ST OR 2ND BOOK Deadline: Midnight, October 31st, 2022. Seeking unpublished manuscripts for The Prairie State Poetry Prize by authors who have not yet published a full length poetry collection or have only published one. Prize includes a cash award of $150, publication by Highland Park Poetry Press, 20 copies of the winning title, and a featured poet spot at an HPP event. Manuscripts are judged anonymously and all finalists will be considered for publication. This year’s final judge is Chicago poet, Cynthia Gallaher. Download Submission Guidelines below.
SEEKING SUBMISSIONS for FALL/WINTER MUSES' GALLERY: Poet's (& Artist's) Choice. Send up to 5 poems as text in the body of an email to jennifer@highlandparkpoetry.org. If you send submissions as an attachment, I will read only one. 30 line limit. Shorter poems preferred. Previously published okay with acknowledgment of first publication. Artists should send .jpg images. Deadline is October 15.
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 as text in the body of an email about 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.
2023 POETRY CHALLENGE. Now accepting submissions for Highland Park Poetry's 2023 Poetry Challenge. Poets of all ages are invited to write about 1) Flowers, or 2) Architecture (honoring the 300th anniversary of the death of Sir Christopher Wren - may write about any architect or piece of architecture), or 3) write a poem in the form of a Japanese Imayo. Deadline is January 31, 2023 at midnight. For downloadable .pdf of submission guidelines and entry form, visit our Daily Poems & Events Page or scroll further down this page.
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apparitions
By Amelia Cotter
Highland Park Poetry Press, 2022
54 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-578-34331-0
Review by Michael Escoubas
This review is reprinted with kind permission from Quill & Parchment
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Self Portrait With Thorns
By Gail Goepfert
Glass Lyre Press, 2022
88 Pages
ISBN-13: 97819441783788
Review by Michael Escoubas
This review is reprinted with kind permission from Quill & Parchment
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To Talk of Many Things: Selected Poems
By Richard Greene
Jumble Books & Publishers, 2021
262 Pages
ISBN-13: 979-0-6453437-6-2
Review by Michael Escoubas
Reprinted with kind permission from Quill & Parchment
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| Daily Poem Page - Featured Poems from September 2022 |
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Petrouchka Alexieva, Michael H. Brownstein, Jackie Chou, Daniel Cleary, Charlotte Digregorio, Jennifer Dotson, Michael Escoubas, John Grey, Elisabeth Guichard, Mark Hammerschick, Kate Hutchinson, Paul M. Jamar, Caroline Johnson, Richard V. Kaufman, Arlene Gay Levine, Lennart Lundh, Adrian McRobb, Margie Hord Mendez, Carl "Papa" Palmer, Jenene Ravesloot, Donita Ries, Marjorie Rissmn, Michael Simon, Alice Marcus Solovy, Curt Vevang, Lori Wall-Holloway, Marilyn Zelke Windau and R. M. Yager.
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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.
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Sharing poetry with audiences of all ages.
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Offering poetry writing workshops, readings and displays.
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Creating opportunities for local poets.
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