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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.com and xdrom.com
Winners | Prizes | Meet Your Judges | Contest Calendar
See winners Judges, Winners and Prizes from previous contests:
1998 | 1999 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007
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
- Caron Andregg (Vista, California)
Caron Andregg lives and writes in Vista, California, north of San Diego. She teaches composition and literature at San Diego State University. She also publishes and co-edits the poetry journal Cider Press Review. Her poems have appeared in Spillway, Sheila-Na-Gig, The Chiron Review, Poetry International , Talus and Scree, and elsewhere, and on the web in Gravity, Poetry Café, Octavo and PoetrySuperHighway. Caron took first and second place in the 1999 and 1998 Poetry Super Highway Contests respectively.
Homepage: http://www.poetrycalendar.com/Caron_Andregg/
- Janet Bernichon (Long Island, New York)
In addition to being a writer and an artist, I am a breast cancer survivor from Long Island. I took off last year from writing... (didn't have a minute to spare) to start a business so I could semi retire from my as a nurse and write. I was able to achieve this goal last April.
My poems are woman themes. I didn't plan it that way, they have evolved to this after my cancer diagnosis. My website is solely about the experience of life threatening illness.
I publish both in print and on the web, prefer the web as it reaches more people. I still like to have a book in my hand, tho'. I coedit Earth Sucks with Michael McNeilley, satirical alien related nonsense which I neglected last year. I have written 6 chapbooks, done a few web broadcasts for the Poetry Cafe, a real nice group project for Perihelion (thanks, Jen), and have had poems appear in nursing textbooks.
For all my friends who haven't heard from me in a while and were afraid to ask... I am alive and well.
homepage: http://gate.cruzio.com/~zerocity/janetb/
- Lyn Lifshin (Somewhere between Vienna, VA and Niskayuna, NY)
Lyn Lifshin's poetry appears in almost every literary and poetry magazine, from American Scholar, Christian Science Monitor and Yankee to Ms., Rolling Stone and Ploughshares. She has edited 4 anthologies of women's writing including TANGLED VINES (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) now in its second enlarged edition and chosen by Ms., magazine as one of the 60 best books of the year. Other anthologies she edited include ARIADNE'S THREAD and LIPS UNSEALED. "The No More Apologizing, The No More Little Laughing Blues," included in her new book, BEFORE IT'S LIGHT, from Black Sparrow Press, has been called "among the most impressive documents the women's poetry movement has produced," by Alicia Ostriker. "Writing Mint Leaves at Yaddo," a prose piece was selected as one of the best pieces of writing about writing by Writer's Digest and Story Magazine.
BEFORE IT'S LIGHT, published winter 1999-2000, her brand new book, just won a Paterson Poetry Prize Award. "A whole other brilliant Lifshin moving from the intensely personal...to the historical." (Small Press Review June 2000)
The award-winning documentary film, "Lyn Lifshin: Not Made of Glass," was called "an extraordinary profile of a unique feminist," by Booklist and Mary McCarthy declared, "for it's passionate defense of poetry and the written word...should be required viewing in every school in America." Her work has been included in virtually every major anthology of recent writing by women including, recently, DICK FOR A DAY, UNSETTLING AMERICA, LEGACIES, MOTHER SONGS, HER FACE IN THE MIRROR, POETS AT WORK, NEW TO NORTH AMERICA, THE HOLOCAUST, IDENTITY LESSONS
COLD COMFORT, Lifshin's recent work from Black Sparrow, has been called "a wonderful work...you can not escape the emotion that falls from these poems" by (Articulate Contemporary Art Review.) "The most published poet in the world today, Lifshin shows here (in COLD COMFORT) what many literary magazine editors have known for decades: she's a poet of substance, range and invention." (Small Press Review) Other recent books by Lifshin include BLUE TATTOO, MARILYN MONROE, and NOT MADE OF GLASS. Writers as diverse as Robert Frost, Ken Kesey, Richard Eberhart, and Ed Sanders have praised her work.
Her intense poems reflect a range of emotions and subjects and touch readers because they suddenly realize that feelings they previously thought to be theirs alone are shared. Winner of many awards including a Bread Loaf Fellowship, The Jack Kerouac Award and New York State Caps Grant, she gives readings, talks and workshops, often based on the books she has edited or exhibits in museums, around the country and has been poet in residence at many colleges, libraries and centers.
Her web site, http://www.lynlifshin.com/ has many interviews, (including one with The Washington Post) selections of poems, photographs, and reading schedules.
2000 Contest Calendar
- June 15: Contest begins
- June 18: Chat Room Event: Ask us questions live about the contest.
- June 19 - 25: Judges featured as Poets of the Week
- June 25: 2pm (pacific) Chat Room Event "Meet the Judges" contest entrants or people considering entering are invited to chat with the contest judges focusing on what they look for in poetry.
- September 2: Final deadline for contest entries. (Entry fees must be postmarked by September 2 or they'll be returned.)
- September 10: Judges deadline for returning scored poems.
- September 15: Second round scoring deadline (in the event of tied scores.)
- September 17: 5:30pm (pacific) Chat Room Event "Winners Announced"
- September 18 - 24: Contest Winners featured as Poets of the Week.
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