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Quick pre-update tidbits:

----> Thanks to those of you who pointed out after reading last weeks
   newsletter that Glasgow was, in fact, in Scotland, and not England
   as I had declared.  Sometimes I get all colonial and lose track of
   geography.

----> Don't dilly dally!  It's the last week to enter the 2001 PSH Poetry
   Contest.  There are hundreds of dollars at stake for the top three
   scoring poems, and a zillion prizes to be distributed to everyone
   else who enters.  Click on '2001 Contest' from the main PSH menu
   for the details and don't miss the Saturday, September 15 deadline
   for postmarking your entry fees.


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THE POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY WEEKLY VIRTUAL UPDATE
http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/
ISSN: 1523-6587

   September 10 - 16, 2001

   this week:

   ~ Last week to enter contest.  Deadline Saturday September 15.

   ~ This week featuring poets from SYRACUSE, NY and WICHITA, KS.

   ~ New poetry/writing website links in all three categories.

   ~ Featured this week in the PSH Bookstore is SAILING ALONE AROUND
   THE ROOM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by United States Poet Laureate
   BILLY COLLINS.

   ~ PSH Chat Room Schedule.

   ~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.


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2001 POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY POETRY CONTEST

   This is the last week to enter the Poetry Super Highway poetry
   contest.  Deadline for postmarking your entry fees is Saturday,
   September 15.

   Almost 400 poems have been entered and 100% of the entry fees
   collected will be divided amongst the top three scoring poems.

   Over 50 sponsors have donated over 200 prizes to be shared
   amongst contest entrants which almost guarantees that everyone
   will get something just for entering.  So ENTER!

   Click on "2001 CONTEST" from the main PSH menu for all of the
   details, prizes, and entry guidelines.

   Or e-mail guidelines@PoetrySuperHighway.com for a personally
   electronically delivered copy.


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POETS OF THE WEEK

   ~ This weeks featured poets are JANE CASSADY and CAROL

   JANE CASSADY (Syracuse, New York) is the author of 3 chapbooks,
   the most recent being Young Girl Writing a Love Letter from
   Inevitable Press. She has appeared in The Lummox Journal,Beyond
   the Valley of the Contemporary Poets, and Incidental Buildings and
   Accidental Beauty, an anthology of Orange County poets.  Currently,
   she is wicked Zen.For further information, you should go see that
   movie Ghost World, which features the poet's favorite bridge.

   CAROL SIRCOULOMB (Wichita, Kansas) is an artist, photographer and
   mother of 3.  She's published in many e-zines and won the poetry
   competition Miniworks in Charnwood England in 2000.  She also had
   a sijo published in an anthology Haiku 2000 and will have a haiku in
   the Haiku Society of America 2001 anthology.


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NEW POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY LINKS

   ~ Here are all of the new sites added to the Poetry Super Highway's
     3 links sections.

   You can find the actual links on the PSH website in the 3 poetry
   links categories.


   NEW INDIVIDUAL POETS PAGES LISTING THIS WEEK:

   ~ PLANET-JA.NET
   Leave your world for a moment and become immersed in mine. 
   Planet-ja.net has poetry, quotes, music, art, and language. 
   Check back often for new additions.


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POETRY SUPER HIGHWAY BOOKSTORE

   ~ Check out our online bookstore for personal recommendations as well
   as Amazon.com's complete catalog of books, music and whatever the
   hell else they've started selling these days.

   ~ Featured this week in the PSH Bookstore is SAILING ALONE AROUND
   THE ROOM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by BILLY COLLINS

   "Billy Collins writes lovely poems--lovely in a way almost nobody's
   since Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling,
   more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are
   and were and some others besides."
         --John Updike  "Luring his readers into the poem with humor, Mr.
Collins leads
   them unwittingly into deeper, more serious places, a kind of journey
   from the familiar or quirky to unexpected territory, sometimes
   tender, often profound."
         --The New York Times

   "What Collins does best is turn an apparently simple phrase into a
   numinous moment. . . . A poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace."
         --The New Yorker 

   Billy Collins has published six collections of poetry, including
   Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and Picnic, Lightning.
   He teaches at Lehman College of the City University of New York and
   at Sarah Lawrence College and was recently appointed named the U.S.
   Poet Laureate.


   ~ If you are or were a featured poet of the week on the Poetry Super
   Highway AND you have a book available through Amazon.com, please
   let me know so we can feature your work in the Poetry Super Highway
   Bookstore in a new section just for former featured poet's books.
   Write mailto:books@PoetrySuperHighway.com with your name and the
   title of the book.

   You can learn more about or order this selection (or virtually any
   other existing book, video or audio recording) by clicking on
   BOOKSTORE from the Poetry Super Highway's main page.


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PSH CHATROOM CALENDAR

   (Access the chat room by clicking on PSH CHATROOM from the PSH main
   page.  You need to have a JAVA capable web browser.)


   ~ FEATURED POETS MEET AND GREET
   Every Sunday, 2:00 PM (pacific)
   A weekly PSH chat for informal chat as well as to say hi to incoming
   and outgoing featured PSH Poets of the Week.

   ~ LIVE SPOKENWORLD.COM
   Every Sunday, 8:00 PM (pacific)
   Chat with Bob Nelson as he broadcasts his one hour spoken word show.

   ~ XDROM : OBSIDIAN
   Every Thursday, 6:00 PM (pacific)
   The Detective Series.  Musical drama. Where you'll find the
   darkness and the street. Live improv episodes. Award-winning
   artists. Original Music (streaming mp3). Poetry. Visual art.
   Quotes. Teaching resources. Text & voice chat.
   URL: http://www.xdrom.com


   ~ Looking for people to run unique poetry related events in the chat
   room ... If you would like to schedule an event in the Poetry Super
   Highway Chat Room and/or host the chat room from your website (all
   of which is FREE), please mailto:chat@PoetrySuperHighway.com
   for details.


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AND SO ON . . .

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   ~ If for any reason you would like to be removed from the PSH e-mail
   list, please send mailto:list@PoetrySuperHighway.com.  (And please
   be friendly.)

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POETRY CLASSIFIEDS

   ~ For information on placing Poetry Related classifieds ads on the
   Poetry Super Highway web page and weekly e-mail outburst,
   mailto:classifieds@PoetrySuperHighway.com

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   Friday, September 21, 2001 7:30 PM, Six Featured Poets plus OPEN
   READING, presented by Artists for a Better World as part of the
   International Arts Festival.

   The featured poets will be Larry Jaffe, Stazja McFadyen, Carmen Vega,
   Alice Pero, Sherman Pearl, Russell Salamon.

   In the Rose Garden Cafe at Celebrity Centre International,
   5930 Franklin Ave., Hollywood CA 90028.  Call Russell for directions
   if needed: 818-761-4568.

   OPEN READING TOO.
   Come read your poems or just listen

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   Passage Publishing - Pathway to self-Publishing
   No more rejection letters!

   Expand your writing opportunities with a complete and affordable
   publishing package for individuals and businesses.

   Your book will be formatted, assigned a barcode and ISBN number.
   Photography and artwork are acceptable.   Additional services are
   available including cover design (or design your own), editing and
   marketing.  We manufacture only high quality, perfect bound books.

   Our Printer - Writers press, Boise, Idaho
   Don't delay - see your book in print!

   http://www.upcountrycreations.com
   mailto:upcountrygirl@qwest.net

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   SURVIVOR WRITERS' CLASSES FOR WOMEN, NEW YORK CITY

   Poet and stroke survivor Susan Varon teaches weekly writing classes
   on Manhattan's upper east side. Women survivors of physical or
   emotional trauma (stroke, abuse, etc.) who want to find their voices
   in a safe, supportive environment are invited to call 212-744-1564
   or email pearlhunter1@juno.com.

   "Writing enables us to see ourselves, and express who we are. I also
   believe profoundly that everyone is talented, original and has
   something important to say."

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   BIONIC BEATS, a quarterly poetry gathering in the Van Nuys
   Industrial District, blasts off once again on Sept. 15 (15838
   Arminta St. #24). Open mic begins at 8 p.m. DJ Gary Justice will
   provide backbeats (jazz, ambient and tribal beats) for poets upon
   request up until 11p.m. After hours party will feature live DJs
   spinning trance, house and techno. For more information on Bionic
   Beats, call Futureman Propaganda at (818) 782-3762 or visit
   http://www.garyjustice.com/ (directions provided).

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   CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Steel Point Quarterly ISSN 1534-7230 a totally
   digital journal of poetry and prose. Submissions accepted only via
   the web. No Attachments. Basic guideline for writers: Quality
   writing that moves us.

   For more specific guidelines http://steelpoint.net

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   The Three Week Poetry Workshop

   A workshop that doesn�t involve driving or Kinko�s.

   This is an e-mail workshop with award-winning poet Jamie O�Halloran
   There will be six assignments and the next session begins Sept 1.
   Enrollment is limited to eight participants. The fee is $60.

   Beginning poets are welcome.

   To Register or for more information Go to
   http://groups.yahoo.com/group/threeweekpoetryworkshop

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   Poetry Club/Literary Angels is an online community dedicated to
   free flow writing. Our online writing community consist of writers
   from all over the world with weekly contests. We have a monthly
   newsletter that is printed and mailed every month with a topic
   challenge writing contest and short story contest. Literary Angels
   Publishing Inc. is our small publishing house which publishes a
   monthly magazine "The Writers Chronicles" For more information visit
   us on the web at www.poetryclub.com or www.literaryangels.com

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   The 2001 Connecticut Poetry Festival
   August 17th and 18th, Middletown, Connecticut
   Featuring Mark Doty and many other fine poets.
   http://www.ctpoetryfest.org

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   /noserialmice publishes poetry and other creative efforts.  There
   are no line, content, or language restrictions.  We will publish
   poetry in other languages as long as an English translation is
   sent along.

   http://www.noserialmice.com

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   Visit Anthology and read about our annual poetry and prose contests,
   submission guidelines for our nationally distributed literary
   magazine and all of the products and services at our website,

   http://www.anthologymagazine.com

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   Continuing in the tradition of Kenneth Patchen, UWP combines the
   artforms of poetry and painting in highly collectable framable
   broadsides. Sample $1.50. "Scar Lit" by Mark Edward Marston $6
   (2001 Pariah Press, signed, 34pgs).

   United Workers Press, 167 Bichner Lane, Mahtomedi, MN, 55115.

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   Stazja invites you to catch one of her SoCal tour engagements.
   When/Where; 9/14 Rapp Saloon, Santa Monica; 9/16 Big Damn Poetry
   Slam, Long Beach; 9/18 Poetic License at Zen, LA; 9/19 Ugly Mug,
   Orange; 9/20 Mysteries Movies & Mayhem, Sherman Oaks; 9/24 Monday
   Night Poetry@Prado Room, Alhambra; 9/25 Coffee Cartel, Redondo
   Beach. For more information e stazja@aol.com"

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   This month in the Lummox Journal you'll find an interview with
   Holly Prado, poetess extraordinaire, member of the Cahuenga Press
   & teacher of the craft of writing. Rene Diedrich graces us with
   another essay, this time on the book, Drinking With Bukowski (a
   book I'm pleased to be included in). Mark Terrill reviews Nate
   Graziano's Seasons From the Second Floor and C. Mulrooney takes on
   some major literary puffballs and triumphs easily.  The usual Tid
   Bits section is joined by Letters to the Dog.  Some poesy rounds it
   out.

   You can order Lummox by sending $2 (or $20 for 12 issues) to Lummox,
   POB 5301 San Pedro, CA 90733-5301.

   The Lummox Society of Writers (LSW) Newsletter is out.  A compendium
   of over 65 mags and presses that I recommend to send poesy & fiction
   to. Names and addresses and guidelines.  All for just $2 + a SASE
   w/ $.55 postage.  Or Join the LSW for a mere $5 per year and get 2
   newsletters and some other goodies.  We are nearly 90 members and
   growing.

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   Tea and Oranges, publisher of "Whispering Reeds -- A Collection of
   Thoughts and Photos of a Group of Online Friends"

   Here it is! http://hometown.aol.com/tandorang/myhomepage/index.html

   will have its newest anthology "Soft Tides" ready in October.  For
   information, contact TandOrang@aol.com

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   PUT YOUR POEMS ON T-SHIRTS!

   (or your pictures, images, website logos on t-shirts, sweatshirts,
   coffee mugs, and mouse pads.)

   Set up your store for free and earn commission from every sale or
   order merchandise for yourself or for gifts.

   visit:
   http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/storeref.aspx?refbyckpoet
   for the details.

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   CALLING ALL WRITERS!

   Interbang magazine wants your poetry, fiction and articles of any
   length, on any subject.

   Write your name and address on each page of your submission.

   Visit our web site at http://www.interbang.net and click on the
   "Writer's Guide" link for more information. You can also obtain a
   copy of the Writer's Guide by sending an email to
   mailto:writersguide@interbang.net

   Get a free sample copy of Interbang No. 8! Call (310) 450-6372 for
   more information.

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   Listen to FEED YOUR HEAD, an internet broadcast radio show of
   live and recorded spoken word and genre defying sets of music.

   Hosted by Los Angeles Spoken Word artist Rick Lupert

   Wednesday nights, 9-11pm (pacific)

   http://PoetrySuperHighway.com/urbanfunk

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   GIVE ME YOUR POEMS, YOUR PROSE, YOUR HUDDLED MANUSCRIPTS yearning to
   be published. Eggplant Submissions works to place your unique
   writing style in the best possible markets. Write to Chocolate Waters at
   eggplant@chocolatewaters.com for a free estimate. Get published now!

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   CONCRETE WOLF POETRY CHAPBOOK CONTEST: $100 Prize and 50 copies of
   chapbook, plus additional copies at discount to winner.  Deadline
   September 1, 2001.  Entry Fee $15.  Submit 16 - 32 pages of poetry
   (manuscript not returned) with SASE for contest results.  All
   entrants receive copy of winning chapbook and consideration for
   publication in our quarterly poetry journal.  See our website:
   http://concretewolf.com or e-mail us at editors@concretewolf.com

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   How many folks do you know who are truly happy? Do you believe you
   can change your destiny? What choices do we have in our lives? Heard
   all this stuff before? Then go buy a dozen doughnuts or read "Enjoy
   yourself It's Later Than You Think" By Michael Levy

   http://www.pointoflife.com --- Your Life, Your Choice.

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   Call For Submissions: The Circle Magazine is accepting submissions
   for both the print and online versions. Pays in copies of the
   quarterly print zine. Currently, we are seeking short stories,
   features and poetry...any topic, any style. Also accepting artwork
   and photographs. We are also seeking columnists for the web edition
   on a variety of subjects. We are a literary magazine and respect
   those working to advance ideas through language, preferably without
   the gratuitous use of obscene language or content. Press run is
   usually between 2,000-5,000+ copies, depending on ad revenue.

   E your submissions to circlemag@a... or put a stamp on it to:
   The Circle Magazine, 173 Grandview Road, Wernersville, PA 19565.
   More info can be obtained at our site - http://circlemagazine.com/

   Copies of The Circle can be ordered at the same address...$4.00.

   Direct your poetry submissions to: Michael Clipman, Poetry Editor

   All other submissions to: Penny Talbert, Editor

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   Stop by and see samples from A FALLING STAR by Robert Diskin,
   a collection of poetry and photography.

   http://fp1.centurytel.net/ctn04863/a_falling_star.htm

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   Limestone Circle is always looking for quality poetry and artwork/
   photography for future issues.  Published twice a year, LC features
   well-crafted, accessible poetry from both new and established poets.

   Want more information?  E-mail the editor at renjef@earthlink.net
   for our submission guidelines, or send a business-size SASE to
   P.O. Box 453, Ashburn VA 20146-0453

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   STILL AVAILABLE!  Singing in the Key of L by Barbra Nightingale
   (80 pages) Winner of the NFSPS 1999 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Award
   Signed copies direct from author.  $10 includes postage.

   Also available, Greatest Hits 1980-2000
   Pudding House Press  (12 poems)
   Signed copies direct from author   $10 includes postage

   BNighting@aol.com

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