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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
Highland Park Poetry has nominated the following six poems for Sundress Publications' Best of Net consideration. Please join us in sending good thoughts to these writers that their work may receive this added recognition. Click on poem titles to read the poem's on Highland Park Poetry's Facebook page or visit the archive at the bottom of our Muses' Gallery using the indicated publication date for that month's downloadable .pdf.

  • Urban Desert by Janea D. Harris (March 2021)
  • You Smoke by Jenene Ravesloot (May 2021)
  • The Empty School by Jill Charles (February 2021)
  • Sheltering in Soul by Maureen Tolman Flannery (April 2021)
  • Morning by Diana Smith (May 2021)
  • The Rules, A Sweetelle by Donita Ries (October 2020)
 
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for October 2021

Shoes: Poems About Footwear

Co-Edited by Jennifer Dotson & Mary Beth Bretzlauf
Highland Park Poetry Press
103 Pages
ISBN: 979-8523568879



Review by Michael Escoubas

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Not As It Seems

By Pat St. Pierre
Kelsay Books, 2021
36  Pages
ISBN: 978-1954353732


Review by Irene Savine



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for October 2021


Dearest Papa: A Memoir in Poems

By Thelma T. Reyna
Golden Foothills Press, 2020
136 pages
ISBN: 978-0996963268


Review by Michael Escoubas

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Forged

By Tina Cole
Yaffle Press, 2021
102 Pages
ISBN:  978-1913122249




Review by Lynn White
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for October 2021

Poetry In An Age of Panic:
Poems of Strength, Vulnerability, Loss & Triumph

By Terry Loncaric
Kelsay Books, 2021
132 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-63980-011-7


Review by Joseph Kuhn Carey
Daily Poem Page - Featured Poems from September 2021
Visit our "Events & Daily Poems" tab to read poems about the virus, poems about calm or perseverance. Thank you to our September 2021 contributors to this special section:
Lois Baer Barr, Michael H. Bornwstein, Jackie Chou, Victoria Crawford, Jennifer Dotson, Mardelle Fortier, Marne Glaser, Carol L. Gloor, John Grey, Jaqueline Harris, Ariella Kharasch, Candace Kubinec, Ann Lammas, Arlene Gay Levine, Carol Spielman Lezak, Terry Loncaric, Lennart Lundh, Nitya Menon, Sandeep Mishra Kumar, Carl "Papa" Palmer, Jenene Ravesloot, Marjorie Rissman, Tom Roby, Alice Marcus Solovy, and Court Williams.

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. 

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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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