The mission of the Poetry Super Highway is to expose as many people to as many other people’s poetry as possible.
What?
Send a book – Get a book. In February 2022, the Poetry Super Highway will coordinate a great free exchange of poetry publications amongst poets worldwide.
It’s not a contest. There are no judges, entry fees, winners, or losers.
Last year 89 poets participated both sending their book and receiving another poet’s book from another randomly selected participant
By agreeing to participate, someone will be exposed to your poetry, and you will be exposed to someone else’s poetry.
How?
To participate you must volunteer to mail one copy of one poetry book that you have written to one other person participating. Just one book. In exchange, you will receive in the mail one copy of one poetry book written by a different participating poet.
Please note it is a circular exchange. You will be sending your book to a different poet than you will be receiving one from.
E-books are not eligible for the Great Poetry Exchange. (Save those for our annual e-Book Free-For-All in November!) Your book must be a physical entity. Even if it’s self-published, or ‘one of one’ that you printed from your computer and stapled together…but please, no e-books.
In early March, we will randomly assign the books to each participant and email you the name and address of the person you are supposed to send your book.
We will also list your book and description on this web page along with the link to your website for all to see. In addition, we will list the new books in our weekly e-mail update which goes out to thousands of people.
Please note, as the Great Poetry Exchange is open to everyone on planet Earth, it’s possible that you will be required to send your book to someone outside of your own country which will, of course, cost you more in postage than it would to send it domestically.
Also as our readership, our primarily English speakers, included books must be written in English or at least include an English translation.
Also. we’ll ask that you send us an e-mail in March once your book has actually been sent so we can keep track and make sure that all participants who send a book also get one.
You also must agree to send out your book within 2 weeks of being notified of who to send your book to.
To submit your book, please click here —>> ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM<<–
A Forest in His Pocket by Ray Cicetti
A Forest in His Pocket includes poems of whimsy and imagination, as well as explorations of family relationships. But the poems also speak to something greater that moves and shapes us within the poems themselves.
All Shards and Paste by Joanna “Joey” Polisena
Shards are the chipped-off pieces and eroded grains of myself that I collected from my mid-20s, when I was almost homeless again (yes, again), through my 30s, when I fought through that poverty, depression, and grief to find myself as a survivor.
https://scorchedfeathers.com
Books Pledged So Far:
Anthracite Coal Country; A Bygone Era In PoetryAnd Prose by GC Smith
A poetic history of anthracite coal mining in north-eastern Pennsylvania told through the eyes of the underground miners and their families. Honors those lost to mine disasters.
Armed and Luminous by Richard Allen Taylor
Armed and Luminous riffs on the premise that “If I were running Heaven, I’d have an angel for everything, not just for annunciations and deaths, but one for chance, one for maps, one each for happiness, grief, melodrama, procrastination.”
Coronary Truth by Diane Elayne Dees
Coronary Truth (Kelsay Books, 2020), is a collection of poems that examine our shared experience of fragility through such diverse subjects as the lifespan of a dragonfly, the shock of a friend’s heart attack, the navigation of blind fish, and the mystical waters of baptism.
https://dianeelaynedeesauthor.blogspot.com/
Drowning the Boy by Daniel McGinn
Published by SurVision Magazine in Dublin Ireland, Drowning the Boy was the winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize 2021.
Hogwash Too by Daniel Irwin
A digest size book of forty pages of off the wall, humorous, irreverent, sometimes insane poetry in colorful blank verse. A tribute to life; sex, drugs, rock and roll…toned down for the masses.
I Am Not Writing a Book of Poems in Hawaii by Rick Lupert
Rick Lupert’s 26th collection and latest book of travel poems written in the “holei” land.
https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/
In Search Of The Wondrous Whole by Lara Dolphin
In Search Of The Wondrous Whole “is a book of joyous, juicy, necessary observations of the crucial stuff of everyday life, from the nature of waiting to Linus Pauling choosing a flavor of ice cream. Smooth and knowing, wise and open, these are the poems we need–right now.”– Robert Fromberg
https://www.amazon.com/Search-Wondrous-Whole-Lara-Dolphin/dp/B09RM8GGHM
Invitation to the Dance by June Sanders
A chapbook of Poems of the Fairy Folk, in villanelle, rhyme, un-rhyme, and free verse.
The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of light.
– Joyce Kilmer
Mirror, Mirror by Cathy MacKenzie
An eclectic collection of poems; some of my favourites, most of them printed here for the first time. Darkish poetry about life and death, although there are a couple of happier ones. Free verse, rhyming, prose-poetry. Several written in collaboration with A.I.
https://writingwicket.wordpress.com/
Music Speaks by Bill Cushing
A chapbook of poems focused on music with illustrations to accompany selected pieces. The is a re-formatting of a book that won awards from both Southern California (2019) and New York City (2021). Topics cover classical to rock but mostly jazz.
Nebraska–Conflicting Reports by Charles Peek
Poems and occasional short essays taken from the award-winning author’s life-long experience of the people and places in the nation’s heartland state, with topical photos.
Opaque Melodies that Would Bug Most People by Corey Mesler
While each poem recounts a snippet of life, together the poems create an earthy blanket that connects readers to a single mind whose voice throughout remains delicate, concrete, and vital, like an old friend. The verse engages the commonplace and the abstract with equal measures thoughtfulness.
Stumbling in CrazyTown by Peggy Gerber
Winner of the 2021 Open Contract Challenge, Stumbling in CrazyTown takes you on a journey from mental illness to back again, and all the lessons learned along the way.
Swimming in the Shallow End by Ron Kolm
A collection of recent poems, many of them dealing with the bookstore I worked in before and after the pandemic of COVID-19.
Trumpets in the Sky by Jerry Garcia
Trumpets in the Sky is a collection of poems that point to the universe while proclaiming the complexities of living on planet earth. These poems are full of astonishment, absurdity, reverence, and social science. Some are surreal, some are staid, all are sincere.
https://www.gratefulnotdead.com/How to submit your poetry book, go to the online submission form at:
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