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The 2000 Poetry Super Highway Poetry Contest
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s p o n s o r e d b y
Asterius Press • Austin International Poetry Festival • Cider Press
CityOfLegends.com • Elizabeth Margo • FreshPoetry.com Web Development
The Florida Villager •
FusionInk.org • HellfirePoetry.com • Hidden Brook Press
Implosion Press • Inevitable Press • Inkwell Press • Iris Press
• KentKruse.com • Kitty Litter Press
Legacy Memoirs
• Limestone Circle • Lummox Productionst • Michele Kaplan
Mind Fire Press •
MW Enterprises • Phony Lid Publications • PoetryJewels.com • Point of Life Inc.
Rexdale Publishing Company • Robt O'Sullivan Schleith • Rothe Techologies, Inc • Supralurid Magazine
Suzanne Lummis • Unladen Swallow Press • The Word Archive
Ultimate Media •http://www.adau.net/judas_ezine/ • www.illyria.comand xdrom.com

Winners | Prizes | Meet Your Judges | Contest Calendar

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See winners Judges, Winners and Prizes from previous contests:

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Winners and What They Won

First Place:
Robert Wynne and Alex Stolis
$218.40 each

Second Place
Steve Norwood
$109.20

We received 536 entries into the contest. The two poets who tied for first place each took 40%
of the entry fees took in. Second place poet took the remaining 20%.

Every single poet who entered the contest received a prize just for entering thanks to
the generosity of the many sponsors who supported this years contest.

Thanks to everyone for entering!

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Prizes

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.

* (minus postage costs in mailing out additional prizes)

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 single person who enters the contest something.

If you're interested in becoming a sponsor to this years contest in exchange for promotional consideration, please e-mail sponsor@PoetrySuperHighway.com for the details.

Additional Prizes:

From The Word Archive
http://www.stas.net/wordarchive/
1 $25 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble Booksellers

From Kitty Litter Press
http://www.kittylitterpress.com/
2 copies of the book "Doves and Crimson Flowers" by Steve Conway
2 copies of the book "Lovesongs and Handgrenades" by Wayne Wilkinson
2 copies of the book "Scatterings" by Gary Jurechka
2 copies of the book "Willie Brown" chapbook by David Madgalene

From Inevitable Press
2 copies of the book "The Shore that We Walk By" by Janet Baker
2 copies of the book "Good Night Gracie" by Lea Deschenes
2 copies of the book "Hearing the Reflection Speak" by Paul Suntup
2 copies of the book "A little Burned at the End of the Day" by Randall Forsyth
2 copies of the book "Birds Hell" by Randall Forsyth
2 copies of the book "When My Demons Were Beautiful" by René Perez
1 copy of the book "One Matador" by Brendan Constantine
1 copy of the book "My Lungs Have Adapted" by Terry Bat-Sonja
1 copy of the book "In the Pillow Font" by Jane Cassady
1 copy of the book "Fellaheen" by Curt Last
1 copy of the book "neehalleF II" by Curt Last
2 copies of the book "Views from the Road: words and Music" by Steve Metzger
1 copy of the book "Euridice" by Marcia Cohee
1 copy of the book "Improvised Night" by Marcia Cohee
1 copy of the book "The Dead" by Marcia Cohee

From Phony Lid Publications
http://www.fyuocuk.com/update.htm
2 copies of the book "Under an Abusive Son" by Mark Senkus
2 copies of the book "Shotgun Blues " by Todd Moore
2 copies of the book "Under the Colcano" by Alan Catlin
2 copies of the book "Come on With the Rain" by C. Mulrooney
2 copies of the book "Just Add Water" by JJ Campbell
2 copies of the book "The Earth Grew Fangs" by Trey Pool

Unladen Swallow Press
5 copies of the book "Helen Could Waste Away" by Steve Norwood
5 copies of the book "Because I Love You So Damn Much I'd Wait For You" by Steve Norwood

From The Florida Villager
http://thefloridavillager.homestead.com/villager1.html
20 one year subscriptions to The Florida Villager magazine (4 issues each)

From Inkwell Press
http://www.inkwellpress.com/
3 Subscriptions to Anthology Magazine

From Cider Press
http://www.PoetryCalendar.com/
2 Subscriptions to Cider Press Review Volume 1

From Michele Kaplan
http://velvetland.worldserpent.org
5 copies of the e-book "The End of a Fool Moon" by Michele Kaplan

From the Austin International Poetry Festival
http://www.hyperweb.com/aipf/
5 Copies of the 2000 anthology "di-verse-city 2000"

From Mind Fire Press
http://www.mindfirepress.com
3 copies of "Fly, the Poet" by Janet Amundsen signed by the author

From Suzanne Lummis
http://www.lapoetryfestival.org/
1 copy of the book "In Danger" by Suzanne Lummis
2 rare L.A. Poetry Festival T-shirts bearing the slogan "Poets Get the Last Word"

From Lummox Productions
http://home.earthlink.net/~lumoxraindog/
2 Books from the Little Red Books series.
2 Subscriptions to Lummox Journal
2 Copies of "The Wren Notebook" by Rick Smith

From Iris Press
http://www.irisbooks.com/
1 copy of the book "Traveling in Time of Danger" by Cathy Smith Bower
1 copy of the book "Province of Fire" by Geraldine Connolly
1 copy of the book "The Water Radical" by Gordon Osing's
1 copy of the book "Among the Believer's" by Ron Rash
1 copy of the book "Tellico Blue" by George Scarbrough

From Legacy Memoirs
http://www.legacymemoirs.com/
1 Copy of WORLD POETRY (An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time) published by W.W. Norton (NY, 1998)

From Point of Life Inc.
http://www.pointoflife.com/
3 copies of the book "Minds of Blue Souls of Gold" By Michael Levy

From Ultimate Media
http://www.ult-media.com/
12 copies of the E-Book "The World's Biggest Book of Writing Contests"

From Rexdale Publishing Company
http://www.RexdalePublishing.com/
20 copies of "Round The Rue" by Brian Grant

From MWE - producer of the series "In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself
http://www.starfishy.com/mwe/
3 Copies of "In Our Own Words: A Generation Defines Itself Volume 2"

From PoetryJewels.com
http://www.Poetryjewels.com/
1 Official T-Shirt from the Poetry Jew-Els Website

From CityofLegends.com
http://CityOfLegends.com/
2 copies of the book, "From an Unexpected Quarter" by William F. Devault
2 copies of the book "PanthEon" by William F. Devault
1 official "Ann-Michelle" sweatshirt

From www.illyria.com
http://www.illyria.com/
1 copy of the book "Battle Dressing: Poems about the Journey of a Nurse in Vietnam" by Dusty

From Supralurid Magazine
http://www.sundress.net/supralurid/
5 Subscriptions to Supralurid Magazine (4 issues each)

From KentKruse.com
http://KentKruse.com/
1 Copy of "Medea's Demonic Grin" by Kent Kruse on Pygmy Forest Press

From Implosion Press
10 copies of The Best of Impetus Anthology

From HellFirePoetry.com
http://HellFirePoetry.com/
1 $25 Electronic Gift Certificate to BarnesandNoble.com

From Elizabeth Margo
5 Copies of "Poetry: More Words From The Heart And Mind" by Elizabeth Margo

From FusionInk.org
http://FusionInk.org/
6 Megabytes of space for a poetry website.

From Asterius Press
http://www.asteriuspress.com/
1 Subscription to Tripwire (3 issues)
1 Subscription to Devil Blossoms (3 Issues)
1 Devil Blossoms T-shirt
1 Doomed City T-shirt
1 Devil Blossoms Coffee mug
1 copy of "Cocaine Poems" by T. Kilgore Splake

From Robt O'Sullivan Schleith
http://members.tripod.com/poetryscenestealers/
3 Copies of "Drift Wood Highway" Poetry Anthology

Fromxdrom.com
http://xdrom.com/
1 Xdrom T-shirt
1 hand-made Xdrom Music CD

From FreshPoetry.com Web Development

http://www.swankweb.com
Design and build a basic 1 to 5 page website, including consulting with the writer on webhosting, domain name, or free service. Including basic graphics. Writer must supply photos. $200 value.

From www.adau.net/judas_ezine
http://www.adau.net/judas_ezine/
1 copy of The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics edited by Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan

From Hidden Brook Press
http://www.hiddenbrookpress.com/
1 copy of "Illuminations II" Fireside Poetry Reading Anthology
1 copy of "Illuminations III" Fireside Poetry Reading Anthology
1 copy of "Beyond Fear and Anger" by Richard Grove
1 copy of "Runaway Suite" by Penny Ferguson
1 copy of "SEEDS Poetry Anthology #2"

From Rothe Technologies.com
http://www.rothetechnologies.com/
1 copy of the CD-ROM "300 Greatest Poems You've Ever Heard"

From Limestone Circle
1 one-year (4 issue) subscription to the poetry journal "Limestone Circle"

Meet Your Judges

2000 Contest Calendar

I'd Like to Bake Your Goods | Stolen Mummies | Brendan Constantine is My Kind of Town | Up Liberty's Skirt
Feeding Holy Cats | Mowing Fargo
| I'm a Jew, Are You? | Lizard King of the Laundromat | I Am My Own Orange County
Paris: It's The Cheese
| Poetry Super Highway | Judaic Links | Rick's Bookmarks | Cobalt Poets
E-mail Rick
| Other Cool Rick Stuff / Upcoming Readings | Who The Hell Is Rick