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IN THE MUSES' GALLERY - 2020 Art Gets In Your Eyes

New Writing Opportunities

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.

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS for 2020 FALL MUSES' GALLERY - Trees. Highland Park Poetry is accepting submissions of poems, art, and photography for our Fall Muses' Gallery on trees. Poems should not exceed 30 lines and shorter poems are preferred. Email jennifer@highlandparkpoetry.org before September 1st.

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.

Submissions for the 2020 Poetry Challenge are now closed; we will announce our 2021 Poetry Challenge in October.

Check out the 27th Annual Illinois State Poetry Society Contest!

Highland Park Poetry sponsors 1 of 13 possible contests. Ours asks poets to create a huitain which is 8 lines rhymed (ababbcbc), with 8 - 10 syllables per lines. **Cash prizes**

Submission period is between September 1 - October 31, 2020. Download ISPS Contest flyer for details.

Click here to download contest flyer

Check out our newest poetry book reviews

for July 2020

Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing

By Charlotte Digregorio

Artful Communicators (2020)

ISBN-13: 978-0-9912139-1-7

Review by Michael Escoubas

AND

Flatman: Poems of Protest in the Trump Era

By Cheryl Caesar

Thurston Howl Publication (2020)

ISBN-13: 979-8630347008

Review by Barbara Eaton

All events scheduled for June 2020 are cancelled due to the coronavirus crisis. The future remains uncertain.

Visit our "Schedule of Events" tab to read poems about the virus, poems about calm or perseverance. Thank you to our contributors to this special section: Mary Jo Balistreri, Jennifer Brown Banks, Michael H. Brownstein, Heather Corbally Bryant, Daniel Cleary, Charlotte Digregorio, Michael Escoubas, Isadora Esson, Daniel J. Fitzgerald, Mary "Rae" Goehring, Colleen McManus Hein, Betsy Dolgin Katz, Judith MK Kaufman, Richard V. Kaufman, Gert Knop, Candace Kubinec, Adrian McRobb, Lakshmy M. Nair, Jaluna Rolik, Laura Ross, Miriam Sagan, Curt Vevang, William Vollrath, Lynn West, and R.M. Yager.

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.