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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 FALL/WINTER MUSES' GALLERY - Poet's Choice. Send up to five (5) poems as text in the body of an email (preferred) or as a single .doc attachment (multiple document attachments will not be read) to jennifer@highlandparkpoetry.org. There is no theme or form required - it's Poet's Choice; however, poems should not exceed 30 line limit. Previously published okay with acknowledgment.

SEEKING SUBMISSIONS for FALL/WINTER MUSES' GALLERY - Artist's Choice. Send up to five (5) .jpg images to jennifer@highlandparkpoetry.org. There is no theme - it's Artist's Choice.


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Submissions for our 2021 Poetry Challenge are now closed. Look for our 2022 Poetry Challenge to open up in September/October of 2021.
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for September 2021

Melancholia

By Alan Balter
Kelsay Books
41 Pages
ISBN: 978-1952326301



Review by Mike Freveletti





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Kindness in Winter

By Sally Nacker
Kelsay Books, 2021
42  Pages
ISBN: 978-1-954353-37-4


Review by Michael Escoubas

This review is kindly reprinted with permission from Quill & Parchment
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for September 2021


Time and Tide: An Atlas for the grieving

By Denise Thompson-Slaughter
Plain View Press, 2021
32 pages
ISBN: 978-1632100870


Review by Bill Cushing







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The Bold News of Bird Calls

By Edward Morin
Kelsay Books, 2021
102 Pages
ISBN: 9781952326707




Review by Lynne Viti
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for September 2021

No Batteries Required

By Ellen Dooling Reynard
Yellow Arrow Publishing, 2021
78 Pages
ISBN: 978-1735023045


Review by Carol L. Gloor
Daily Poem Page - Featured Poems from August 2021
Visit our "Events & Daily Poems" tab to read poems about the virus, poems about calm or perseverance. Thank you to our August 2021 contributors to this special section:
Chris Chandler, Victoria Crawford, Jennifer Dotson, J.K. Durick, Mardelle Fortier, John Grey, Janea D. Harris, Caroline Johnson, Richard V. Kaufman, Joan Leotta, Arlene Gay Levine, Terry Loncaric, Lennart Lundh, Jean McDonough,Sandeep Mishra Kumar, Carl "Papa" Palmer, René Parks, Jenene Ravesloot, Donita Ries, Alice Marcus Solovy, Nick Sweet, Curt Vevang, Lori Wall-Holloway, Lynn West, Court Williams, and Yvonne Zipter.

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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Highland Park Poetry - Updated September 1, 2021

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