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2021 POETRY CHALLENGE - Amateurs, semi-professionals, professionals and students of all ages are invited to submit original poetry in response to the 2021 Poetry Challenge. Deadline is Friday, January 29, 2021. Download Submission Guidelines and Entry Form. This year Highland Park Poetry challenges poets to write a response to one of the following prompts:
  • Fruits and Vegetables (the United Nations has declared 2021 the year of Fruits & Vegetables; ok to concentrate on one)
  • Common Threads
  • Sweetelle (description of this poetic form by Allison Joseph included with submission guidelines)
 
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.
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Click here to download 2021 Poetry Challenge Submission Guidelines & Entry Form
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Check out our newest poetry book reviews
for November 2020


The Machinery of Grace

By Patrice Claeys Boyer
Kelsay Books, 2020
64 Pages
ISBN: 978-1950462735



Review by Gail Denham




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The Eden of Perhaps

By Agnes Vojta
Spartan Press, 2020
74 Pages
ISBN: 978-1952411007




Review by Jacqueline Stearns
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for October 2020

Asylum

By Elizabeth Marino
Vagabond Press, 2020
71 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-936293-45-2

Review by Elizabeth Harper




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Late Night Talk Show Fantasy & Other Poems

By Jennifer Dotson
Kelsay Books, 2020
86 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-1952326035



Review by Gay Guard Chamberlin
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Check out our newest poetry book reviews
for October 2020

Little Kings

By Peter Kahn
Nine Arches Press, 2020
72 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-911027-97-3

Review by Elizabeth Joy Levinson
The coronavirus crisis is still with us. The future remains uncertain. No live-in person events scheduled at this time.
Visit our "Schedule of Events" tab to read poems about the virus, poems about calm or perseverance. Thank you to our October 2020 contributors to this special section:

Blake Adamson, Renee Butner, Cheryl Caesar, Jackie Chou, Jan Chronister, Daniel Cleary, Jennifer Dotson, Michael Escoubas, Daniel J. Fitzgerald, Karen Fried, Alwyn Gornall, Janea D. Harris, Linda Imbler, Esther Kalu, Richard V. Kaufman, Tricia Knoll, Gert Knop, Joan Leotta, Mindy Matijasevic, Adrian McRobb, Ann Privateer, Donna Pucciani, Jenene Ravesloot, Donita Ries, Alice Marcus Solovy, Lynn West, and Michael P. Wright.

We are posting 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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Preorder now before November 25 by emailing jennifer@highlandparkpoetry.org - $2 from each copy goes to National Forest Foundation
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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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