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NEW IN THE MUSES' GALLERY: 2022 Poetry Challenge - U.S. National Parks / Waltmarie / Underwater Life
 
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New Writing Opportunities
SUMMER MUSES' GALLERY: ODES. Now accepting submissions of odes, poems of praise celebrating a person, place, thing, or idea. The ordinary or the lofty. Poets may submit up to 5 poems. Poems should not exceed 30 lines. Previously published is okay with acknowledgment. Deadline is May 15th. Please send your poems as text in an email (preferred) or in a single .doc file to jennifer@highlandparkpoetry.org. Also accepting photographs and images by visual artists.

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.

The 2022 Poetry Challenge is now closed. Judges' selections will be published on the Muses' Gallery beginning April 1, 2022. Highland Park Poetry will announce open submissions for its 2023 Poetry Challenge in October 2022.

 
Check out our newest poetry book reviews
for May 2022


A Dreamless Night: The Selected Chinese/English Poems of William Marr

By William Marr
Chicago Academic Press, 2021
258 Pages
ISBN-13: 9798761154803



Review by Michael Escoubas



This review is reprinted with kind permission from Quill & Parchment






 
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Art Work: poems

By Terry Allen
Kelsay Books, 2021
101 Pages
ISBN-13:  978-1954353107


Review by Ally Frank



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Doctor Poets & Other Healers: Covid in their own Words


Edited by Thelma T. Reyna, Frank L. Meyskens, Jr., and Johanna Shapiro
Golden Foothills Press, 2022
130 Pages
ISBN:  978-1737248101

Review by Michael Escoubas


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apparitions

By Amelia Cotter
Highland Park Poetry Press, 2022
54 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-0578343310


Review by Pauline Kochanski


Daily Poem Page - Featured Poems from April 2022
Visit our "Events & Daily Poems" tab to read poems about the virus, poems about calm or perseverance. Thank you to our April 2022 contributors to this special section:

Dan Boyd, Daniel Cleary, J. K. Durick, Michael Escoubas, Daniel Fitzgerald, Mardelle Fortier, Kathleen Gregg, John Grey, Gay Guard-Chamberlin, Kate Hutchinson, Julie Isaacson, Paul M. Jamar, Richard V. Kaufman, Pamela Larson, Arlene Gay Levine, Jayshawn Lott, Lennart Lundh, William Marr, Adrian McRobb, Silvia Morgan, Lakshmy Nair, Howard Nemeroff, Jenene Ravesloot, Sandy Rochelle, Franky Saez, Christine Kierstead Sheeter, Gwen Van Velsor, Curt Vevang, Lori Wall-Holloway and Lynn West.
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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.


Sharing poetry with audiences of all ages.


Offering poetry writing workshops, readings and displays.


Creating opportunities for local poets.


 
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