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| Highland Park Poetry is pleased to announce the following nominations for Sundress Publications’ 2024 Best of the Net Anthology:
Highland Park Poetry editor's note: I chose to nominate poets who responded to the Highland Park shooting on July 4, 2022. I included Ellen Savage's poem, Observing Ahimsa, written about Uvalde, Texas school shooting as a reminder that this can happen in any community and it does. There were many more poems submitted and posted on the subject but the Best of Net guidelines limit editors to only 6 poem nominations. Thank you to all of the poets who shared poetry after last summer's tragic shooting in Highland Park. Your poems did something that poetry does very well - to let readers begin to process the unthinkable, the painful, the thing we have no words for. ~ Jennifer Dotson
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THE PRAIRIE STATE POETRY PRIZE FOR A 1ST OR 2ND BOOK - Now accepting submissions of poetry manuscripts for possible publication, $150 cash award, 20 free copies of the winning manuscript, and possible feature spot at an HPP reading event. Deadline is October 31, 2023 at Midnight. This year's judge is Lennart Lundh. Download instructions and read carefully. Questions? Email jennifer@highlandparkpoetry.org.
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. If you have recently submitted poems, please wait at least two months before submitting new material.
2023 POETRY CHALLENGE - This contest is closed for now. It will re-open for submissions to the 2024 Poetry Challenge in October 2023. We do accept suggestions for challenge themes and poetic forms.
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If There Is No Wind
By Margaret R. Sáraco
Human Error Publishing, 2022
96 Pages
ISBN-13: 9798-1948521116
Review by Michael Escoubas
This review is reprinted with kind permission from Quill & Parchment
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Fire Carousel
Poems By Virginia Chase Sutton / Airea Johnson / Liz Robbins / Lauren Tivey
Photographs by Nikole Tucker
Main Street Rag, 2023
48 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-59948-950-6
Review by Carol L. Gloor
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Duluth: Zenith City & Beyond
By Jan Chronister
Poetry Harbor, 2023
95 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-1886895409
Review by Marie Asner
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Coyote's Song: Collected Poems & Selected Art of Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl
By Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl
Editors Carlos Cumpiàn and David Ranney, with Essasy by René Arceo,Carlos Cumpiàn, and Fred Sasaki
March/Abrazo Press, 2023
212 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-1877636028
Review by Lois Baer Barr
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Daily Poem Page - Featured Poems from August 2023 |
Petrouchka Alexieva, Carol Alfus, Maria Asvos, Michael H. Brownstein, George Cant, Mardelle Fortier, Linda Freudenberger, Martina Gallegos, Dominique Galiano, Marne Glaser, Richard V. Kaufman, Elizabeth Stanley King, Terry Loncaric, Lennart Lundh, Joan McNerney, Laura Potts, Ann Privateer, Miriam Sagan, Michael Simon, Joris Soeding, Lori Wall-Holloway, Anthony Ward, Lynn West, Peter A. Witt, Patricia Williams, Renee Williams, R.M. Yager, and Andrena Zawinski.
We post a poem daily on Facebook. Be sure to like/follow 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.
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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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