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

   March 26 - April 1, 2001

   this week:

   ~ This week featuring poets from PHOENIX, AZ and ORANGE CA.

   ~ New poetry website link listings in all 3 categories.

   ~ Featured this week in the PSH Bookstore this week is:
     SCREAM WHEN YOU BURN edited by ROB COHEN

   ~ PSH Chat Room Schedule.

   ~ Poetry / Writing related Classified Ads.

   ~ Check out the latest episode of HORROR VACUUI by clicking on
     LANGUAGE STRIPS from the main PSH Menu.


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POETS OF THE WEEK

   ~ This weeks featured poets are RACHELLE MARKLEY and MICHAEL PAUL:

   RACHELLE MARKLEY (Phoenix, Arizona) is currently enrolled in the
   creative writing program at Phoenix College.  She recently won an
   honorable mention in the Maricopa Community Colleges 2000-01
   Creative Writing Competition for her poem When Women are Invisible.

   MICHAEL PAUL (Orange, California) is the author of 5 chapbooks, and
   his work has appeared in Blue Satellite, Spillway, Pearl, FTS,
   Lummox Journal, and The Valley Contemporary Poets 2000 anthology,
   among others. �He is curator and co-director of the Tebot Bach
   Reading/Workshop series in Huntington Beach. �Michael lives with
   his wife Claudia Licht.


   Read their work online by clicking on FEATURED POETS from the main
   Poetry Super Highway page.

   ~ Submit your work for consideration for featured poet of the week.
   Information available online.  (Click on SUBMISSION GUIDELINES from
   the PSH main page.  All submissions are saved for new consideration
   each week (for six months.)


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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 ONLINE PUBLICATIONS LISTINGS THIS WEEK:

   ~ THE ALLEY
   Each month the Alley features 3 artists.  For details and submission
   guidelines, check out the site.

   ~ KEN*AGAIN, THE LITERARY MAGAZINE
   A quarterly, nonprofit e-zine presenting a hearty, eclectic mix of
   prose, poetry, art and photography: accessible, obscure, soothing,
   disturbing. Wrap your mind around a good read. Submissions invited:
   see our Contact page for guidelines.


   NEW INDIVIDUAL POETS PAGES LISTINGS THIS WEEK:

   ~ MY POEMS, MY LIFE
   This is a new site that will include much of the poetry that I have
   been writing for more than twenty years. I have arranged these poems
   in time order to show one example of how one poet changes and
   matures.  I have included some commentary with many of the poems.

   ~ NICK RAZER PRESENTS
   Official page of Nick Razer, poetry fiction, essay, artistic pinups,
   submissions and more.

   ~ UNDUTCHABLE WOMAN IN HOLLAND POETRY SITE
   Poetry written by Undutchable Women in Holland. /Dream of the future
   / Spreading my wings / and return to / our future / looking forward
   / and leave the past in memories / to be remembered / for our return
   / the return to the beauty / for us / to be in the future / not to
   forget / that the present / is called present, because / it is one
   / live while you can / with memories / to remember the past, / live
   the present, /  with the future in mind.


   Add your poetry related site to the extensive links section on the
   Poetry Super Highway.  Click on ADD YOUR LINK HERE from the main PSH
   page for more info.


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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 SCREAM WHEN YOU BURN
   edited by ROB COHEN
   "A Pound of Seared Flesh from the Lap of The Coffee Culture" . . .
   an anthology of some of the best material from the 4 year run of
   Los Angeles based Caffeine Magazine featuring the work of Charles
   Bukowski, plus work from Michele T. Clinton, Pam Ward, Lyn Lifshin,
   Dave Alvin, Eloise Klein Healy, Scott Wannberg, David Kendrick, Jo
   H. Scott, Rick Lupert, Roland X, Chris Gordon, David Ulin, Charles
   H. Webb, Joan Eyles Johnson, Guillermo Reyes, and dozens more.


   ~ 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 POETRY/WRITING WEBRINGS

   Click on POETRY/WRITING WEBRINGS from the main PSH menu to view
   our directory of rings which your website can join.

   If you know of, or maintain, a poetry or writing related ring,
   please let us know.  We'd love to add it to our growing directory.
   mailto:webrings@PoetrySuperHighway.com


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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 . . .

   ~ The Poetry Super Highway was accessed 825 times last week.

   ~ 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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   CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Steel Point Quarterly, an e-journal of poetry
   and prose, is seeking submissions of flash fiction, feature articles
   on the writer's craft, book reviews and poetry - all genres welcome
   - preferably without gratuitous obscenities or prejudicial content.
   Third issue due online, April 5th, 2001.

   Submit on-line via our web-form or e-mail your submissions
   to: point@onesteel.net.

   Traditional mail submissions also welcome.
   Mail to: Steel Point Quarterly,
         P.O. Box 5463, Harrisburg, PA 17110-0463.

   Submission guidelines available at http://steelpoint.net

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   "Chocolate Waters Uncensored"- a new CD just released from Eggplant
   Productions. Chocolate Waters began delighting audiences with her
   pioneering performance poetry in the mid '70's. Ranging from witty
   and irascible to tender and poignant, she has toured the U.S.
   promoting both her irreverent observations on life - and her books.
   The work included in the CD spans three decades and is influenced
   by the Denver women's movement of the '70's and the Hells Kitchen
   of Manhattan in '80's and '90's. There are 25 tracks many from live
   performances. Early favorites, new works and a few songs are
   included.

   Single Copy: $19.98 + $2. postage. Limited Signed and Numbered
   Edition (1-7): $50.00 each + $2. postage. Electronic orders are
   available from www.chocolatewaters.com . Postal mail orders should
   be addressed to Eggplant Productions, 415 West 44th Street, Suite 7,
   New York, NY, 10036

   Email correspondence always welcome: c-w@chocolatewaters.com

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   Writer's Nature, the new chapbook by noted poet and author Ace
   Boggess, is now available from Circle Publications.  It explores
   the socio-psychology and philosophy of being a writer, focusing on
   what makes a great writer rather than the more common question of
   what makes great writing.  Order a copy now.

   Send check for $4 to Circle Publications, 173 Grandview Road,
   Wernersville, PA 19565.  Price includes postage.

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   BerksBards, a nonprofit poetry organization in Berks County,
   Pennsylvania announces BARDFEST 2001. Throughout the month of April,
   poets Billy Collins, Ace Boggess, Herb Martin and Sonia Sanchez join
   many others for readings and events every day of the month!

   For more information, see our website at
   http://www.circlemagazine.com/berksbards

   or contact Penny Talbert at ptalbert@aol.com.

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   Spoken word band LEFT SOCK THEORY's CD "Dusting For Soulprints" is
   now on sale for $10 + $2 shipping and handling! For more information
   on the band, go to http://www.circlemagazine.com/leftsocktheory

   "What Left Sock Theory has developed is a funky jazz sound that
   accents the poetry and has just enough of a blues feel to support
   it's urban tone.
      - John Latimer, Harrisburg Patriot

   Send check or money order to: Penny Talbert, Circle Publications,
   173 Grandview Road, Wernersville, PA 19565.

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   9pm, 21+, Open Reading + Weekly Features.. Club Mesa, Costa Mesa, CA
   NO COVER CHARGE, DRINK SPECIALS 'TIL 10:30PM hosted by LOB of Thee
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   features: http://www.tif.org/tif/calendar.html see you there.. -/\-

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   Next month, aside from it being National Poetry month (thank you,
   Mr. Clinton), brings you the biggest ALL POETRY issue of the Lummox
   ever attempted!  There are over 80 poems in this issue, coming from
   at least 65 poets.  Issue will most likely run at least 48 pages!

   It's FREE to Lummox subscribers ($20 - 12 issues), but everyone
   else pays $3. lumoxraindog@earthlink.net or Lummox c/o POB 5301
   San Pedro, CA 90733-5301

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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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   Looking for "Alternative Comic Strip" artists for a new weekly
   online publication.

   E-mail AltComix@PoetrySuperHighway.com for more info.


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