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THE 2008 POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY POETRY CONTEST
this years contest is sponsored by:
Assume Nothing Press, Bobbi Lurie, Brick Cave Media, Christine
Bruness, Colin Galbraith, Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Contest,
Deborah P Kolodji, DJ Monkey, Ellaraine Lockie, Horosho Dlia-Menia
Publishers, Ink Publications, Jafansta, Inc, Jerry Garcia, Jonathan
Penton, Katherine L. Gordon, Kingfisher Road Gifts, Larry O. Bubar,
Layalama.com, LB Sedlacek, Lizzie Wann, Lovely Trinkets, Marie
Lecrivain, Mary Kennedy Eastham, Mike Scheidemann, Poetic Matrix
Press, Science Fiction Poetry Association, Skysaje Enterprizes,
Southern California Haiku Study Group, Stacy Smith, The Compulsive
Reader, The Poetry Market Ezine, The Ranfurly Review, Uphook Press,
Water Forest Press, WinningWriters.com, Write Away Literary Services,
www.benbarton.co.uk
It's our eleventh annual Poetry Contest featuring cash prizes and
37 sponsors who've donated over 100 additional prizes. Last year we
were able to send every contest entrant a prize for participating
and with even more prizes on this year's roster, we're hoping to do
the same.
Read below for all the Entry Guidelines, The Complete Prize List, The
Judges, and the 2008 Contest Calendar
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ENTRY GUIDELINES
~ The Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest Is Open to all human beings
on planet Earth. (except for the three judges)
~ Enter as many poems as you like.
~ Please include all entered poems in a single e-mail
(not separate e-mails for each poem entered.)
~ Poems may be of any style, length, or subject matter.
~ Please paste poems as PLAIN TEXT into the body of ONE e-mail.
Text formattings (such as bolding and italics) and colors and
centering of poems ALWAYS make them more difficult to work with
and usually don't appear on my screen the way they do on yours.
~ Please include a separate list of your poem titles in your e-mail
submission (un-numbered, one poem title on each line)
~ Please do not send your poems double spaced.
If your poems come to us double-spaced, we will not accept them
and ask you to re-send them single spaced.
~ Poems must be e-mailed to Contest@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
~ We DO NOT ACCEPT ATTACHMENTS. The text of your poems must be
pasted as PLAIN TEXT INTO THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL.
~ This contest is separate from weekly Poet of the Week consideration
Submissions for Poet of the week consideration must be separate
from Contest Submissions and the same poems may not be submitted
for both.
~ There is a One Dollar Per Poem entry fee.
____________________ PAYMENT OPTIONS ____________________
1) PayPal
~ Entry fee should be sent via PayPal to my PayPal payment e-mail
address: Rick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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form your
Name
Address
E-mail address,
and titles of poems you entered.
OR
2) Mail Your Payment
We accept checks, money orders and international checks and money
orders in US Funds made payable to "Rick Lupert"
Mail your payment to:
Rick Lupert
15522 Stagg Street
Van Nuys, CA 91406
Please DO NOT SEND HARD COPIES OF POEMS THROUGH REGULAR MAIL WITH
YOUR PAYMENT. We only accept poems in the body of an e-mail and we
will throw them away unread if you send them to us with your payment.
Include with your entry fee, on a separate sheet of paper, your
Name
Address
E-mail address
and titles of poems you entered.
____________________ DEADLINES ETCETERA ____________________
~ Deadline for postmarking entry fees or submitting the entry fee
via PayPal is Saturday, September 20, 2008.
~ Regardless of when you postmark, your entry fees must be received
by Friday, September 26, so if you're mailing your entry fee, please
account for the amount of time it will take for your it to travel
between your home and Los Angeles.
~ This is a not for profit contest. All of the collected entry fees
will be divided between the authors of the top three scoring poems.
~ Once your entry fee is received, your poems will be sent with your
name removed to the three judges who will score them 0 - 5
(5 being best).
~ Your poems will not be forwarded to the judges until your entry fee
is received.
~ If you have any questions or need any of the contest details
clarified, please e-mail Contest@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SPONSOR AND PRIZE LIST
~ First Prize: 50% of the entry fees collected* plus winning poem
featured on the PSH
~ Second Prize: 30% of the entry fees collected* plus winning poem
featured on the PSH.
~ Third Prize: 20% of the entry fees collected* plus winning poem
featured on the PSH.
Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, we are able to supplement
the cash prizes with an impressive array of prizes which would be of
interest to poets and writers.
The following prizes will be used to bolster first through third
prize as well as distributed to other contest entrants.
Our goal is to be able to send every singly person who enters the
contest something.
If you're interested in becoming a sponsor to this years contest in
exchange for promotional consideration, please visit the sponsor
information page at http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/pshcospo.html
Additional Prizes:
Assume Nothing Press
http://assumenothingpress.blogspot.com/
1 copy of the chapbook "Red Headed Eskimos" by LB Sedlacek.
www.benbarton.co.uk
http://www.benbarton.co.uk/
1 copy of the chapbook "drop, anchor" by Ben Barton
1 copy of "The Red Book" by Ben Barton
Bobbi Lurie
1 copy of the book "The Book I Never Read" by Bobbi Lurie
1 copy of the book "Letter from the Lawn" by Bobbi Lurie
Brick Cave Media
http://www.brickcavemedia.com/
5 $10 Gift Certificates to the Brick Cave Media Online Store
Christine Bruness
http://www.chatnoirstudios.com/
One signed copy the book ³Imbalance, An Experimental Collection of Micro
Stories and Poetry² by Christine McGuigan (author¹s maiden name)
Colin Galbraith
http://www.colingalbraith.co.uk/
3 sets of: 1 signed copy of the chapbook, ³Fringe Fantastic² and the
e-book ³Poolside Poetry² both by Colin Gailbraith
The Compulsive Reader
http://www.compulsivereader.com/
1 month's online advertisement in The Compulsive Reader including a
newsletter ad as well ($40 value).
Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Contest Deadline 11/3/08
http://ConcreteWolf.com/
1 copy of the chapbook ³Squeezers² by Alison Pelegrin
1 copy of the chapbook ³Such Short Supply² by Michelle Brooks
1 copy of the chapbook ³Tallahassee Letters² by Ryan G. Van Cleave
2 copies of the chapbook ³The Grape Painter² by Lou Suarez
Deborah P Kolodji
http://dkolodji.livejournal.com/
1 copy of the book "Red Planet Dust" by Deborah P Kolodji
1 copy of the book "unfinished book" by Deborah P Kolodji
DJ Monkey
http://www.djmonkey.tk/
and/or http://www.myspace.com/joeyalkes
5 copies of the CD ³Cor****ate Oil War, best of DJ Monkey² compilation
Ellaraine Lockie
1 copy of the chapbook, "Blue Ribbons at the County Fair" a collection
of my first-place winning poems in poetry contests by Ellaraine Lockie
Horosho Dlia-Menia Publishers
1 copy of the book "The Breaking of the Glass" by Tovli Simiryan
1 copy of the e-book "Tiny Stories: The Inclusive Holiness of the Number
Six" by Tovli Simiryan
1 copy of the e-book "Ester bat Shmuel Yosif v' Branah" by Tovli Simiryan
Ink Publications
http://www.inkpublications.com/
1 copy of the chapbook "The Halo Effect" by Eric Evans
1 set of 3 ink publications broadsides including "Crows" by Eric Evans,
"Good Fortune" by Alicia Hoffman, and "Reap Eat" by Carly Christensen
Jafansta, Inc
http://www.jafansta.com/
1 framed poem "Procrastination" by Tonja Dudley Bagwell
1 framed poem "Humanitarian Deeds" by Tonja Dudley Bagwell
1 framed poem "Success" by Tonja Dudley Bagwell
Jerry Garcia
http://www.gratefulnotdead.com
3 original photographs by Jerry Garcia
Jonathan Penton
http://jonathan.unlikelystories.org/
10 copies of the book "Prosthetic Gods" by Jonathan Penton
Katherine L. Gordon
1 copy of the book ³Translating Shadows² by Katherine L. Gordon's poetry
Kingfisher Road Gifts
1 handpainted journal
Larry O. Bubar
1 copy of the book "Life Isn't Always A Be Of Roses" by Larry O. Bubar
Layalama.com
http://www.layalama.com/
1 copy of the book "Essence of Beauty", a collection of 24 poems, by
Pushpa Ratna Tuladhar
LB Sedlacek
http://www.lbsedlacek.com
1 copy of the chapbook "The Cat and the Carroll A. Deering and Other
North Carolina Poems" by LB Sedlacek
1 copy of the chapbook "Alexandra's Wreck" by LB Sedlacek
Lizzie Wann
http://www.myspace.com/lizziewann
2 copies of the CD "A New Leaf" by Lizzie Wann
2 copies of the CD "A Wing & A Prayer" by Lizzie Wann
Lovely Trinkets
http://lovelytrinkets.com/
4 $12 dollar gift certificates to Lovely Trinkets
Marie Lecrivain
http://www.poeticdiversity.org/
One copy of the book "The Painter," a narrative poem with illustrations
by Marie Lecrivain and Aurora Antonovic.
Mary Kennedy Eastham
http://www.RP-Author.com/MKE
1 copy of the boook "The Shadow of a Dog I Can't Forget" by Mary Kennedy
Eastham now in its Third Printing
Mike Scheidemann
http://www.poetry-voices.8m.com/
2 copies of the 'Voices' anthology 2008 (250 pages of superlative poetry
from Israel and abroad).
1 copy of the book ³Singing in my Mind² - a didactic dance by Mike
Scheidemann
2 copies of the book ³Another Song, Another Eden² by Mike Scheidemann
Poetic Matrix Press
http://www.csusm.edu/profe
2 copies of the book "Driven into the Shade" by Brandon Cesmat
The Poetry Market Ezine
http://www.thepoetrymarket.com/
1 four issue e-subscription to "The Poetry Market Ezine - Premium
Edition."
The Ranfurly Review
http://www.ranfurly-review.co.uk
A feature in the Rainfurly Review consisting of 1) a selection of the
poet's work, 2) an interviewm and 3) inclusion of any associated
artwork/photography, including the front cover
Science Fiction Poetry Association
http://www.sfpoetry.com/
1 one-year member****p in the Science Fiction Poetry Association
Skysaje Enterprizes
2 copies of the CD "Dragons Dance Volume One" by Lawrence Berger
Stacy Smith
http://srsmith25.tripod.com/tranquilmoments/index.html
1 copy of the book "Poems of Nature" Edited by Gail Harvey
1 copy of the book "Silent Voices: Recent American Poems on Nature"
Edited by Paul Feroe
1 copy of the book "Grandmother Earth X: 2004" Edited by Patricia Smith
& Frances Brinkley Cowden
1 copy of the book "Grandmother Earth XI: 2005" Edited by Patricia Smith
& Frances Brinkley Cowden
Uphook Press
http://www.uphookpress.com/
2 copies of the anthology "A Cautionary Tale: Peer into the Lives of
Seven New York Performing Poets."
Water Forest Press
http://www.waterforestpress.com/
1 copy of the book ³Literary House Review, 224 pages of brilliant short
stories and engaging poetry.²
1 copy of the book ³Fast Food, Slow Mind² by Jacob Erin-Cilberto
10 copies of ²A Hudson View Poetry Digest - Spring 2008 Issue
8 signed copies of the book "Like a Woman Falling" selected poems by
Stephanie Pope
WinningWriters.com
http://www.winningwriters.com/
One year of online access to the Poetry Contest Insider database, with
in-depth profiles of over 750 poetry contests, a $31.80 value.
Write Away Literary Services
http://www.geocities.com/ston_bran
1 copy of the book "City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology" edited by
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1 copy of the book "Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and
Poetry" by Jeff Knorr and Tim Schell
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MEET YOUR JUDGES
Gabrielle Mittlebach (Los Angeles, California)
Gabrielle Mittelbach is a Los Angeles poet and the first place winner
of the 2007 Poetry Super Highway poetry contest. She has had poetry
published in journals such as Rattle and Nimrod. She is currently
editing her first book of poetry called Kisses for the Possessed.
Margot Lurie (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Margot Lurie lives in New York, where she works at Parnassus: Poetry
in Review.
PJ Nights (Brunswick, Maine)
PJ Nights was born and raised in the wild and ravi****ng state of
Maine, from which outpost she teaches physics, stargazes, and
publishes and edits the quarterly journal, "from east to west:
bicoastal verse." For her, poetry is less about the concrete and more
about the emotional and spiritual, about the sense of wonder she gets
from a unique image or a surprising use of language. No particular
formula works to elicit a reader's "gasps", but those quick breaths
of appreciation when a poet's intent strikes home are what she looks
for in poems and hopes to achieve with her own. She writes to keep
her brain from turning to mush, and, hopefully, to leave little bits
of beauty in her wake.
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2008 CONTEST CALENDAR
July 3: Contest begins
July 7 - 13: Judges featured as Poets of the Week
July 13, 2:00 pm (pacific): PSH Live Judges Event: Live broadcast
where Judges will have the chance to read poems and discuss the
contest and you can call in live and ask them questions.
September 20: Final deadline for contest entries. (Entry fees must be
postmarked by September 7 or they'll be returned.)
September 27: Judges deadline for returning scored poems.
October 2: Second round scoring deadline (in the event of tied
scores.)
October 5: 2pm (pacific) PSH Live Event: "Winners Announced" in a
special broadcast. Listen to it live and if any of the winners happen
to be listening, they'll be invited to call in and read their winning
entries live on the air.
October 6 - 12: Contest Winners featured as Poets of the Week.
Good luck to everyone!
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