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

Check out our Events & Daily Poems page!

assorted seasonal gourds in yellows, oranges and greens

Lennart Lundh, Photographer

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 150^th 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.

Submission guidlines & entry form for 2022 Poetry Challenge

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Check out our newest poetry book reviews

for January 2022

Personal Myths: 2, 3, and 4, 156 haiku

By Thomas Chockley

Independently Published, 2021

96 Pages

ISBN: 9781716321993

Review by Ignatius

AND

View from the Back Window: Blue Collar Poetry on Life

By Dan Boyd

North Orchard Press, LLC, 2021

341 Pages

ISBN: 97817363148338

Review by Michael Escoubas

This review is kindly reprinted with permission from Quill & Parchment

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Check out our newest poetry book reviews for January 2022

The Trip

By Sharmagne Leland-St. Johns

Illustrations by Melissa Mergemeier

Cyberwit Press, 2021

20 Pages

ISBN: 978-93-90202-97-3

Review by Michael Escoubas

This review is kindly reprinted with permission from Quill & Parchment

Daily Poem Page - Featured Poems from December 2021

Visit our "Events & Daily Poems" tab to read poems about the virus, poems about calm or perseverance. Thank you to our December 2021 contributors to this special section:

Renee Butner, Vittorio Carli, Yuan Chang Ming, Jackie Chou, Gail Denham, Jennifer Dotson, Michael Escboubas, Dan Fitzgerald, Mardelle Fortier, Kate Hutchinson, Paul Jamar, Richard V. Kaufman, Candace Kubinec, Ann Lamas, Arlene Gay Levine, Carol Spielman Lezak, Lennart Lundh, Bonnie J. Manion, William Marr, Susan McClellan, Joan McNerney, Adrian McRobb, Carl "Papa" Palmer, Karen Petersen, Jenene Ravesloot, Marjorie Rissman, Terry Slaney, Alice Marcus Solovy, Lori Wall-Holloway, and Kao Ra Zen.

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Also, if you have a poem to share, please email to jennifer@highlandparkpoetry.org.