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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 Seeking unpublished manuscripts for The Prairie State Poetry Prize by authors who have not yet published a full length poetry collection or have only published one.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.
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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Breaking Cover: Poems
By Michael Maul
Amazon Books, 2022
138 Pages
ISBN-13: 979-8831760415
Review by Michael Escoubas
This review is reprinted with kind permission from Quill & Parchment
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Alice's Adventures: A Modern Version of Lewis Carroll's Classic, in Verse
By Paul Buchheit
Kelsay Books, 2022
61 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-1639801831
Review by Judith MK Kaufman
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Odes: Poets Praising People, Places & Things
Edited By Jennifer Dotson & Mary Beth Bretzlauf
Highland Park Poetry Press, 2022
79 Pages
ISBN-13: 979-8-218-03079-9
Review by Michael Escoubas
This review is reprinted with kind permission by Quill & Parchment
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Talk Smack to a Hurricane: Poems
By Lynne Jensen Lampe
Ice Floe Press, 2022
52 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-895637-07-6
Review by Lois Baer Barr
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Ode to toni morrison (and collected poems...)
By Jennifer Brown Banks
Cyberwit.net, 2022
76 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-8182538887
Review by Barbara Eaton
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| Daily Poem Page - Featured Poems from November 2022 |
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Mary Beth Bretzlauf, Deby Cedars, Daniel Cleary, J.K. Durick, Michael Escoubas, Linda Freudenberger, Mary Rae Goehring, Gay Guard-Chamberlin, Esther Hague, Isla Hague, Mark Hammerschick, Richard V. Kaufman, Ann Lamas, Joan Leotta, Lennart Lundh, Joan Luther, Radomir Vojtech Luza, William Marr, LaVern Spencer McCarthy, Adrian McRobb, Michael Minassian, Carl "Papa" Palmer, Jenene Ravesloot, Julie Sheldon, Alice Marcus Solovy, Lynn West, Lynn White, and R.M. Yager.
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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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